Isn't Martha M Moravec's writing awesome? Martha and I have been online friends for the past few years, and I'm excited to see her book become a reality.
Bravo!
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
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...
After a long search and some legislative lobbying, Marlboro school officials think they've found their district's niche in Vermont's changing educational landscape. The question is whether state officials will agree. Marlboro School Board members have approved an Act 46 merger plan that would link their district with two other, newly formed districts while also allowing Marlboro to retain its middle school and its current form of governance. The so-called “2x2x1” merger model is a new option created this year by...
The Women's Freedom Center presents a free screening of HBO's new feature-length documentary, “Private Violence” at New England Youth Theatre on Friday, Sept. 26, at 6:30 p.m. Kit Gruelle, an advocate featured in the film, will speak at the screening. “Private Violence” is more than a documentary; it's an audience engagement campaign exploring what producers call “a simple but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own home.” Every day...
The computerness of modern life savages too many of my days. By “computerness” I mean the combination of my own computer’s erraticness and the perversity of systems and businesses I have to deal with. You can attribute some of my difficulty to being old. But most of the difficulties are not of my making. They’re the result of a) anyone’s fallibility in handling hyper-complexity, and b) underlying it all, the silicon chip, created 62 years ago. It has not increased...
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