RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:
A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. BRATTLEBORO-To the Brattleboro...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their...
The Commons will suspend publication for a week so our staff and contributors can recharge their batteries, enjoy the holiday season, and otherwise gird themselves to produce a good newspaper for you in 2016. The next issue will be dated Wednesday, Jan. 6. Deadline for news and advertising is Friday, Jan. 1. All of us at Vermont Independent Media and The Commons offer readers best holiday wishes in these waning days of 2015. See you next year.
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company continues its reimagined 2020 season with the debut of Songs for Today, a series of bite-sized musical tracks in the spirit of classic Playhouse shows. The project is the second in a recently launched new-works initiative, Weston Writers. Songs for Today invites Weston's family of musical theater writers to talk to us in song about the stories they want to tell today. “Composers who have previously been at Weston will create and record original music that...
I have to admire Dart Everett for his creative and rampant imagination with regards to the governor's future plans, farfetched as they may be. I support the Affordable Care Act, but it falls far short of the ease and efficiency of Medicare, which is, in fact, a single-payer system. The governor's efforts in promoting a single-payer system would, in aggregate, reduce overall spending on health care. The billions Dart quotes are scary and should be, but those are the billions...
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