Truly unhinged: In the name of “the idea of coming together,” Randolph T. Holhut doubles down on division.
Everything despicable about the neoliberal “New Dems” emerges in this rant.
Lindsey Britt is a textile artist, solution-finder, award-winning vegan baker, and nonprofit administrator who serves...
Tim Hayes is retired as a junior high school teacher at Marlboro School, where he...
Bert Picard is an activist, having retired as a Teamster truck driver who has organized...
The writer is the local organizer of NALC Branch 37. BRATTLEBORO-On Sunday, March 23, a...
The Vermont Judiciary wants to put the brakes on an alimony overhaul effort led by a Brattleboro businessman. In a new report, the state Supreme Court's Family Division Oversight Committee recommends adoption of new guidelines aimed at providing more “predictability and consistency” in the alimony process. But the committee also argues against adopting any mandatory regulations that might curb the ability of judges to consider unique factors in each alimony dispute. Guidelines that are too “rigid,” the committee's Jan. 13...
In 2020, more than a half a century since the Windham Orchestra began at long-defunct Windham College (now the campus of Landmark) in Putney, the organization split from its longtime parent entity, the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC). And, after pandemic-enforced darkness, with a first concert last month, it has reemerged into the local music world as the Windham Philharmonic. Since 2010, the group has been led by Hugh Keelan, who introduced staged performances of opera such as Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci,
What makes politicians publicly embrace a lie when the truth is staring them in the face? "There is an apartheid state here. In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state." A simple statement of fact - in this case made recently by Tamir Pardo, a former head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, referring to Israel's current system of treatment of Palestinians. Pardo is not the only Israeli official to say so.
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