Ed Adrian
CommentatorEd Adrian is an attorney at the law firm Monaghan Safar Ducham PLLC. He previously served on the Burlington City Council for five years and currently sits on the Burlington Library Commission.
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President-Elect Trump is advocating for us to bring back Merry Christmas as the de facto salutation-of-choice for the holiday season. And I’m actually OK…
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The Burlington City Council is poised to vote, by my calculation, on whether to increase councilor pay from $2.40 an hour to $3.60 an hour. And this…
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Neil Young’s song The Needle and the Damage Done details the devastating impact that Young witnessed heroin having on musicians in the early ‘70s . Now,…
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If there’s one refrain I’ve heard over and over again for the last month it’s “I can’t wait for this election to be over.” Well we’ve finally arrived at…
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The recent and prolonged spate of unseasonably warm days often called “Indian Summer” has got me thinking about the future.Actually, I prefer to call them…
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In a philosophical moment, Star Trek’s Mr. Spock professed that “logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end.” And such is the case with the law and…
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The Latin phrase Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes literally means “who will guard the guards themselves.” One contemporary rift on this maxim asks “who will…
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In Vermont we have two very clearly defined dates for voting: Election Day, the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November, and Town Meeting…
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The “lady in red” appears often in popular culture. In The Matrix, a “lady in red” is created specifically as a distraction in a virtual world training…
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I’ve been going to Sterling Pond off the Smuggler’s Notch Road for a quarter century. It’s a great place to get away from the hustle and bustle of daily…