Voices
Focus on Act 46
On towns’ options for school choice and the pressure for change
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
At the first meeting of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (VNDCAP) in 2014, there was lots of talk about the need for openness and transparency. Lately, though, a dispute has arisen about how far the panel has to go to meet those goals. Some members have proposed limiting press and public use of a call-in feature for those who cannot attend meetings in person. Panel Chairwoman Kate O'Connor is pushing back against such changes. After an April 12...
The New England Chapter of Sisters in Crime recently awarded $250 to Village Square Booksellers of Bellows Falls as part of their We Love Bookstores initiative. Sisters in Crime is an organization dedicated to promoting the ongoing advancement, recognition, and professional development of women crime writers. Bookstores within the U.S. can enter a monthly drawing for the award by submitting an entry form and a photo of one or more staff members holding three books by Sisters in Crime members.
I am disturbed by President Trump's recent memo regarding diversity training. This memo, issued on Sept. 4 and followed by an executive order on Sept. 22, states that the executive branch agencies have spent taxpayer dollars on training government workers to believe divisive anti-American propaganda. It states that diversity trainings focusing on white privilege, critical race theory, and racist origins of the United States create “division and resentment” among federal employees. The memo states the government is “fully committed to...
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