This is a well-written article on Crescent Dragonwagon. I am an alumnus of Fearless Writing and love her honesty when she speaks. She is an outstanding instructor and positive influence.
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark isn't shying away from the controversy created by his proposed “Liberty Mill Justice Center” in Bellows Falls. But in introducing the project to a group of state lawmakers on Jan. 14, Clark also sounded like a man who believes he's gotten a raw deal. For one thing, he believes media coverage has focused too much on the detention-center aspect of the project and not enough on the many other services proposed for Liberty Mill. Clark...
U.S. actor and comedian David Koechner brings his brand of stand-up comedy to the Bellows Falls Opera House on Sunday, Nov. 12. "It's a power-packed 90 minutes," says Koechner, 61, on a recent afternoon phone call from his home in Los Angeles. This is Koechner's first show back in Vermont since 2015, when he played the role of Pete Parker in the short film The Parker Tribe. The semiautobiographical film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was written and...
BRATTLEBORO-As someone who has been a public health educator and advocate for many years, I appreciated Joyce Marcel's article, which illuminated racial disparities in health care caused by diagnostic tools that rely on technology. I also applaud the sources she quoted who are drawing attention to those disparities. I'd be interested to read a follow-up article about differences in care that derive from racism in the medical profession in general, which is rife with race-based assumptions and stereotypes. A variety...
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