WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
Charles F. Monette is a poet, teacher, playwright, actor, builder, and U.S. Army veteran. BRATTLEBORO-Recently,
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some...
Fric Spruyt represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting. BRATTLEBORO-At the July 8 Brattleboro...
Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and the author of Becoming a Leader: Identity, Influence,
Hello and good day to you, residents of the peaceful and picturesque windy hamlets of southeastern Vermont! We have an active pattern in place with about two to three storms per week moving through the region, so allow me to paint the broad weather strokes for you. Colder air will be working into the region Wednesday with some scattered snow showers possible by late afternoon and at night due to the lake effect. High pressure tracking east through southern Vermont...
Independent journalist and scholar Linda Farthing will share her analysis of Latin America's New Left surge with the Windham World Affairs Council on Wednesday, July 26, at 6:30 p.m., at 118 Elliot. Her talk, "The Pink Tide 2.0? A New Left Surge in Latin America," is based on the Spring 2023 issue of NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America) Report on the Americas, which she edited. In that issue, Farthing examined the past two decades of Latin American politics.
Having just passed another International Workers' Day on May 1, it's a good time to take stock of the condition of workers in the United States. We find politicians and the ruling class drooling about low unemployment and a booming economy. Who are the true beneficiaries in this economy? Workers' wages have been largely stagnant for decades. The country's (and the world's) wealth has been transferred to a tiny fraction of the population. Large swaths of the United States are...
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