Elayne Clift (a Hillary lover) is outraged that President Trump is against unborn children being murdered. She calls his pro-life position “downright mean.”
No, Elayne, you're the one who's downright mean!
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...
Vermont voters made history on Aug. 14, as Christine Hallquist of Hyde Park won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Hallquist, the former CEO of the Vermont Electric Co-op, became the nation's first openly transgender woman to win the gubernatorial nomination for a major political party. She will now face Republican incumbent Phil Scott in the general election on Nov. 6. “I am so proud to be the face of the Democratic Party tonight,” said Hallquist to a cheering crowd that jammed...
Barbara Will, Professor of English at Dartmouth College, will examine how the First World War altered the American literary landscape in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. on Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. Her talk, “World War I and American Writers,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public. Will will focus on the effect of the war on American writers, particularly John Dos Passos, T.
Terrorism takes many forms - from violent high-profile attacks to sophisticated cyber-intrusions. Yet there is another, more insidious form of terrorism - one practiced by President Trump that was on full display on Jan. 6 on Capitol Hill. It is called stochastic terrorism. Stochastic terrorism is a process in which a speaker makes comments that promote terrorism without explicitly asking people to engage in violence. By keeping their statements implicit, stochastic terrorists maintain plausible deniability if violence actually occurs. For...
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