BRATTLEBORO-The day after the recent presidential election, there was a noticeably dour tone among the people I spoke with in this deep blue community.
People were racked with fear for the safety of their vulnerable neighbors: queer and trans folks, recent immigrants, refugees, people of color, people with disabilities.
They were anxious about what Trump would do to an already-fragile economy, or how he would impact already-atrocious conflicts abroad being fueled by U.S. weapons. They were worried about the resilience of American democracy and its institutions.
And perhaps most deeply, they were crushed by considering what it meant to live in a country whose voting majority had just cast their ballots for a man who was labeled even by his erstwhile confidants as a fascist.
Fhar Miess is a resident of Brattleboro, chair of the Conservation Commission, a District 9 Representative Town Meeting member, and bookkeeper at Everyone's Books. BRATTLEBORO-Dear Brattleboro Selectboard, I'm a resident of Brattleboro, and also the numbers guy and the keeper of the financial books at Everyone's Books, off of...
I am dismayed that The Commons chose to commission the biased, inaccurate reporting in Joyce Marcel's front-page article about Rep. Becca Balint's recent trip to Israel. A three-page, 2,500-plus-word article quoting at length from a single source is not a news story. Balint has a proven history in Brattleboro...
Fhar Miess is a resident of Brattleboro, chair of the Conservation Commission, a District 9 Representative Town Meeting member, and bookkeeper at Everyone's Books. He lived in Egypt from 2007 to 2009 and traveled by bicycle around Syria. What is the endgame in Gaza? What does "winning" look like for Israel? As articulated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, its goals are "straightforward: to bring home hostages and defeat Hamas." Let's consider how well Israel is accomplishing these war aims. First,
I was perplexed to find in The Commons this article, accompanied by an image of a page from a 1931 eugenicist screed in order to support the article's point, such as it is. A quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits below the article, stating “The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.” I'm baffled by the series of editorial decisions that brought together this assemblage of the image, the article, and the end quote.