The only thing I don't believe, Susan Odegard, is that you are not an accomplished person. Wow - you have found beauty in yourself and the world and have articulated it so well.
Thanks for this gift of an article.
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...
While it looks like something out of a fairy tale, beneath its charming exterior Linda and Don Marcille's Old Ledge Road home contains a mold problem - a problem that they believe has rendered it a toxic trap. “It's a bad situation,” says Linda, a fine arts painter. “We shouldn't be living in the house.” Brain fog, stress, trauma, and grief are the hallmarks that mold is leaving on the Marcilles, who have just about exhausted all the avenues they...
Bestselling author and Harvard University professor Jill Lepore will discuss her most recent work, These Truths: A History of the United States, at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., in Brattleboro on Saturday, April 27, at 7 p.m. Lepore's title signals the thrust of her historical investigation. As she writes in her introduction, “The American experiment rests on three political ideas - 'these truths,' Thomas Jefferson called them - political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people,” each...
Great! Quite thorough! I especially like the parts about age, about abortion, about the topics on which writer Mimi Yahn disagrees with Bernie Sanders. I was coming around to Sanders (from a Jill Stein–only approach) even before the “defense of Hillary” by Gloria Steinem and noted criminal Madeleine Albright. I had grown convinced there is hardly a war Hillary Clinton would not negotiate away from, and she likely would get us involved more deeply in something in the Middle East...
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