Donna Carpenter: Vermont’s future hangs in balance

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Donna Carpenter, of Stowe, who is the CEO of Burton Snowboards, which is headquartered in Burlington and employs 402 Vermonters. She is a board member of Protect Our Winters. 
When my husband started Burton 40 years ago, there were a lot of opinions about snowboarders: We were seen as rebels, risk-takers and renegades. But our motivation was simpler than that: We wanted people to fall in love with snowboarding.
Forty years from now, we want people