WHITINGHAM — We now have the technology to know everything about everybody. So we should have no trouble counting all the votes in a national election.
Since we can now know exactly what the Will of the People is, we can have true democracy!
The Big Data has been piling up for years. While we're at it, why not look up what actually happened back there in Bush v. Gore, how all these horrible wars started, and where all our money went? It's all in there.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
How do you extract a 40,000-pound road grader from a 6-foot deep sink hole? According to Public Works Director Steve Barrett, in the case of Black Mountain Road, the driver of the grader used the vehicle's steel underblade to push the whole machine back to solid ground. Last week, heavy rains damaged a portion of the road. Because the stream beds were full, DPW crew members couldn't see the extent of the water damage until a hole 6 feet wide...
Arlene Distler's Viewpoint about hate speech versus free speech highlighted my own concerns. I am a proponent of free speech, but I have been struggling with the concept of “freedom of hate speech” and the consequent harm it may cause. There is a greased slope when one starts to draw lines limiting free speech. Words have power, and hate speech is a weapon that must be recognized as such. I find that I cannot sit idly by and let others...
Funk and world beat band Simba celebrates the beginning of summer and the longest day with their annual Summer Solstice Celebration on Monday, June 20, at 8 p.m., at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center, at the intersection of East-West, Middle, and Bunker roads. A news release invites music lovers to “dance your heart out with the area's most beloved world beat band featuring all kinds of funky grooves and some of the best local musicians.” Those musicians are:
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