It's about time! I've had enough of institutions like the Brattleboro Retreat stealing our hard-earned tax dollars in the name of “mental health.”
We should all applaud whistleblower Thomas Joseph and anyone like him. Well done!
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
It's easy to take Town Meeting for granted. It is, on its surface, the annual gathering of small-town voters to debate small-town things. It's an endearing New England tradition wrapped in local characters and tied with a string of Robert's Rules of Order. Town Meeting, however, is We the People made local. Yes, it's easy to roll one's eyes at an hour-long debate about hiring a dog catcher, concedes Susan Clark, the town moderator for Middlesex. Town Meeting is powerful...
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 183 Main St., continues to celebrate the new year in its new gallery with a large group exhibit, MGFA 2020, which runs through April 12. An artists' reception is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 22, at 5 p.m. Featured along with the work of gallery artists is a selection of collaborative prints by master printer Lisa Mackie, including collagraphs by Wolf Kahn and Mary Frank and lithographs by Bill Murphy. As well, the gallery is introducing three new...
How history repeats itself. As I encounter people saying that the Palestinian situation justifies the barbarism of Hamas, I think of the American leftists who wouldn't hear anything against Joseph Stalin. In his 30 years of power in Russia and, later, the Soviet Union, Stalin engineered the murder of millions -all in the service of creating a Communist utopia. He called for the eradication of the Kulaks, or peasants who owned more than 8 acres of land. He imprisoned in...
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