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• Economic problems in southern Vermont - lack of jobs, etc.
• Opposition to Justice Center in Bellows Falls.
• Opposition to gas plant in Vernon.
• Opposition to wind power plant.
Gee, can there be a connection here?
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...
Cindy Hayford of the Deerfield Valley Community Partnership, which focuses on prevention efforts in the Deerfield Valley, attended some of the conversations about marijuana and its regulation that have taken place in Dover and Wilmington in recent years. She related her experience in a phone interview to The Commons. In Dover's case, the town banned marijuana dispensaries last year. Police Chief Randy Johnson launched the effort, and the town held several community meetings and conversations. Wilmington's Police Chief brought similar...
April's First Wednesday event at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., is “The Poetics of Girlhood and Womanhood in America,” and takes place live, April 6 at 7 p.m. Poets and writers Diana Whitney and Shanta Lee Gander will join Christal Brown, associate professor of dance at Middlebury College, in a conversation that explores how girlhood and womanhood in America are manifested across the boundaries of poetry, dance, and lived experience. Diana Whitney's edited work, You Don't Have to Be...
Gerard Cloutier writes that he feels very safe in Vermont, refutes any presidential responsibility for a rise in “violent crime,” and presents statistics to demonstrate that, in fact, there has been no rise in violent crime during the current administration. As Mark Twain said, “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Here are the numbers Mr. Cloutier left out. Despite a 43-percent drop in overall violent crime since the 1990s, mass shootings have increased dramatically since the Federal Assault Weapons...
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