BRATTLEBORO — Don't believe that Senator Jeanette White didn't understand that the Senate's marijuana legalization bill got transformed into a sellout to corporate interests.
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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...
BRATTLEBORO-As three newcomers prepare to take seats on the Selectboard, at least one outgoing incumbent isn't surprised. "Any incumbent was going to lose," said Franz Reichsman of the March 4 town election results. "You raise people's taxes like that, and there's going to be some blowback for sure." Adding, with some humor, "I didn't expect to win, but I didn't expect to be dead last," Reichsman went on to say, "this was an anti-incumbent, anti-Selectboard vote." Coming on board to...
A well-known Vermont journalist has launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at raising $45,000 - the funds necessary to complete a book chronicling the full behind-the-scenes story of Christine Hallquist's 2018 run as the first openly transgender major-party nominee for governor in the United States. The Democratic Party nominee, Hallquist, formerly the CEO of Vermont Electric Cooperative, lost to Republican incumbent Phil Scott. After being included in all campaign team calls and events from the beginning of the campaign in March...
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark College. A former member of the board of directors of Vermont Independent Media, he was a longtime volunteer investigative reporter and columnist for this newspaper. This piece is adapted from his Substack site, Escape Velocity, where he posts essays about society, culture and politics. RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL-Trump and Musk's illegal orders and activities are more than just a coup - they are a literal...
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