The truck driver person with the “angry stickers” is just exercising his, or her, First Amendment rights on their own truck!
God bless America (my First Amendment right to say, so exercised).
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Last week, Emerson College President M. Lee Pelton announced that the Boston-based college was exploring an alliance with Marlboro College. If the plan comes to pass, Marlboro College's campus will close next year, its programs and willing faculty and students absorbed into the college of approximately 3,800 undergraduate and 633 graduate students. While trustees for the two schools have yet to agree to a merger, Pelton shared early details. Emerson would inherit Marlboro's $30 million endowment and its real-estate holdings,
Pianist Michael Arnowitt and ImproVisions Jazz perform in Wendy's Jazz Soiree series in Guilford on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. Arnowitt is joined by Clyde Stats on upright bass and (1)Keith Gibson on drums in a program of jazz past and present. They will perform jazz classics by Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Bill Evans, along with Michael Arnowitt's versions of jazz standards such as "There Will Never Be Another You" and "Autumn Leaves." Their program also features selections...
Last week brought grim news about the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis in the United States. The stock market is still holding its own, but in the real economy unemployment is still rising. New funding for supplementary unemployment benefits has not yet been agreed on in Congress because of Republican intransigence. The moratorium on rental evictions has expired. For many working Americans, the loss of benefits and the rent coming due is a perfect storm. The second-quarter economic report...
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