Excellent article, thanks! Do you think Hillary Clinton asked Patrick Leahy to be vice president or secretary of state?
Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
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WEST BRATTLEBORO-Since October 2022, more than 600 refugees and asylum seekers have been resettled in Windham and Bennington counties. Then came Jan. 20 and, in the words of Joe Wiah of the Ethiopian Community Development Council (EDCD), "things have changed." With the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, ECDC and nine other refugee resettlement agencies around the U.S. saw much of their funding from the U.S. State Department disappear as resettlement programs were halted. In ECDC's case, Wiah said they...
Ruth Garbus will release her fifth solo album, Kleinmeister, on Aug. 30, on the Chicago label, Orindal Records. Fans of Garbus' slightly surreal, observational lyrics, spare instrumentation, and sophisticated song structures will find themselves in familiar territory. In his review of Kleinmeister, Chris Cohen, singer-songwriter, producer, and former member of Deerhoof, said Garbus “has the best, weirdest chord changes, [and] the catchiest and most exotic melodies and lyrics.” A few things have changed since Garbus' last release, Hello Everybody. While...
One reason water should belong to everyone is the impact of pollution on the environment. Farmers are complaining that their veggies and their animals are dying because of polluted water. Just next door in Bennington, the Chemfab plant leaked chemicals into people's wells. In North Dakota, people are protesting the Dakota Access pipeline because they say it will hurt the environment. One thing I think people can do is urge the government to stop the pipeline. I hope the water...
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