Dear Vermont, I’m staying

This commentary is by Jasper Brown, a writer who lives in Montpelier.As someone who was driven out of Vermont due to its lack of affordability and was brought back via a life crisis, parts of what Jim Suriano recently wrote in VTDigger resonated: the struggle of getting paychecks from people who live outside Vermont; scrambling every month to figure out how to make ends meet; watching life crumble while people are pointing fingers at the federal government.What I often hear is that we need to &