News from Rutland, VT: A guest column by a Rutland firster!

Editor: As regular readers know, Rutland, VT citizens are not taking kindly to a plan to resettle 100 Syrians in their town—a plan the mayor made in secrecy with a federal resettlement contractor.  For background, please click here for our Rutland archive. And, for future reference, this post is filed in our ‘Comments worth noting/Guest … Continue reading News from Rutland, VT: A guest column by a Rutland firster!

Rutland controversy exposes important information about abstracts and the plans for your town

It is with the deepest gratitude to the citizen activists in Rutland, VT that we are bringing you a broader understanding of the process by which your town is ‘chosen’ to become a new ‘welcoming’ resettlement site. Many of you have gotten your R & P Abstracts for FY2017 and we dissected one here last … Continue reading Rutland controversy exposes important information about abstracts and the plans for your town

Unraveling Rutland (VT) may help every town in the same boat!

With mayors like these who needs enemies! Update: Refugees now a hot topic in gubernatorial race, see here. As I travel around the US meeting with citizens concerned about the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program, patterns are developing and one of those is that there is no doubt that when your town is targeted for a … Continue reading Unraveling Rutland (VT) may help every town in the same boat!

Rutland, VT: City aldermen demand answers as rift with mayor grows

As regular readers know by now, I am driving through the heartland to learn more about how towns and cities, seeded through the UN/US State Department with growing enclaves of ethnic diversity and where in most cases no effort to assimilate by the newcomers, is creating politically and socially tense communities. If I were to … Continue reading Rutland, VT: City aldermen demand answers as rift with mayor grows