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).
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., is set to introduce her first major piece of legislation of her first term: the Community Housing Act (CHA). She outlined the plan on Feb. 12 at the Bellows Falls Garage, an apartment complex run by Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. According to a news release, the CHA calls for investing more than $500 billion in federal programs that fund the construction of affordable and deeply affordable housing. The housing trust model is a major...
Town meetings and elections are coming up in Vermont. This presents a mess of unusual challenges during these restricted times. The pandemic has severely wounded our local economies and made everyday life more difficult for everyone. Yet, a crisis of this magnitude can also open doorways to changes that could revitalize our communities in ways perhaps not envisioned before. Now it is probably more important than ever to pay attention, become engaged in local issues - and, most importantly, to...
The film I Am Not Your Negro will be the next offering in the continuing All Souls Church series “Looking Inward at White Power and Privilege” on Sunday, Aug. 26, at noon, preceded by a free light lunch. In the film, director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. It is a journey into black history that connects the Civil Rights movement to Black Lives Matter, questioning black representation in Hollywood and beyond. The church,
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