The town settled after lawsuits filed by the solar developer stalled the Bennington High School project, a large-scale public-private partnership to bring housing and community resources to Bennington ...

Any interim appointment to fill that seat should ethically be a candidate who best represents the views and qualifications of the predecessor who was chosen by the voters.

I’ve been following Charity Clark’s activities — and those of the other attorneys general, along with groups like Common Cause and the ACLU — closely in recent months.