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).
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
When President Donald J. Trump decided in May that the United States would walk away from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal), all eyes were on the Iranian government to see how it would react. But, as former ambassador and UN diplomat Peter Galbraith described the situation in the Middle East in a Nov. 30 talk to the Windham World Affairs Council at Centre Congregational Church, if the goal was to weaken...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of Celtic music by Kalos (Jeremiah McLane, Eric McDonald, and Ryan McKasson), with bagpiper Dan Houghton and harpist Rachel Clemente, on Friday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. Kalos is described in a news release as “a trio of interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music [that] explores the dark corners floating on its edges, delivering an alluring musical complexity full of spontaneity and joyful exuberance.” “McDonald, McKasson, and McLane draw...
The writer represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting, BRATTLEBORO-The difference between our faltering two-party democracy and those with a much-more-vibrant multiparty system has been on my mind more than ever lately. Trevor Noah made an observation in an interview recently that in most places around the world people are far less tribal in their approach to politics. What comes with having more choices of parties and candidates is a far greater willingness to be critical of those they...
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