BRATTLEBORO — A ban on sale of assault weapons would be good.
A ban on sale of votes by Congress would be better.
Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
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After more than two years of legal battles and two rulings from a bitterly divided Vermont Supreme Court, a case involving an assault committed by a former Brattleboro Retreat patient still is far from over. That's because the Supreme Court's rulings, the latest of which came Sept. 16, have created a new legal standard - dubbed a “duty to warn” - for mental health workers who are treating potentially dangerous patients. And that standard is causing worry for health care...
The title of Mildred Beltré Martinez's Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) exhibit, “Between Starshine and Clay,” is drawn from a poem by Lucille Clifton: “born in babylon / both nonwhite and woman / what did i see to be except myself? / i made it up / here on this bridge between / starshine and clay.” Like the poem, the exhibition on view through June 12 explores issues of identity. “Clifton is celebrating that for Black women, the formation...
Along with two of my colleagues from the Ways & Means Committee, Rep. Jim Condon, a Democrat from Colchester, and Rep. Adam Greshin, an independent from Warren, I recently introduced a comprehensive education finance reform bill. At a high level, the bill proposes to make the following changes to the system that finances Vermont's K-12 education: • Replace the current variable residential education property tax rate with a much-lower fixed residential property tax rate that would be uniform across the...
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