PUTNEY — I am so grateful for this commentary, which names the unreasonable, but terribly powerful, fear - of a tyrannical government actually disarming citizens - behind so many opponents of gun-safety laws.
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...
Stephanie Bonin and Zach Hebert are part of organizations from throughout Windham County that have met throughout the year to work on Everyone Eats! The good news, said Bonin, is that funding for the statewide Vermont Everyone Eats! program has been extended until Dec. 31. Previously, funding was set to end a few weeks earlier. Yet, the federal emergency COVID-19 funding will end, it seems, long before the pandemic or its economic impacts. Hebert said the momentum around increasing access...
The Brattleboro Music Center's 2018-19 Chamber Series continues Thursday, Feb. 21, with the Escher Quartet, an American string quartet based in New York City, where they serve as Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at BMC. Tickets are $40 for preferred seating, $20 general admission. The Escher String Quartet has received acclaim for its expressive, nuanced performances that combine “unusual textural clarity with a rich, blended sound,” according to a...
The Trump administration has an ongoing conflict with the truth. The mainstream media continues to torture itself and consumers with its euphemistic language used to describe Trump's delusions: “untruths,” “falsehoods,” “misrepresentations,” “contradictions,” “unsubstantiated information,” and now - best of all, from Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway - “alternative facts.” The media needs a thesaurus. How about the words “lies” and “hypocrisy”? Perhaps we are expecting too much from media corporations that gave Trump some $2 billion worth of free coverage during...
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