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I am hopeful for change. I pray we can all be kinder to each other in the midst of these revelations.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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BRATTLEBORO-When it comes to voting, Brattleboro is as blue as the ceiling of the Latchis Theatre. So when U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Becca Balint spoke to more than 250 people gathered there for a Democratic rally on Oct. 19, it was as if they were preaching to the choir. And this choir was enthusiastic, offering more than one standing ovation to the two progressive politicians who represent Vermont in Congress. Both are prohibitive favorites in their own...
The Rockingham Free Public Library is pleased to welcome back Modern Times Theater on Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 5 p.m., for a new production: The Baffo Box Show: A Compact Cardboard Comedy. "When the world breaks," says the news release, "someone has to fix it. In this comedy in a box, audiences are invited into a fragile universe of cardboard, where the Baffo Brothers keep the sun running on schedule, negotiate with a demanding neighbor, and attempt to keep a...
At the Labor Day Town Hall on Brattleboro's Town Common, I publicly thanked Sen. Bernie Sanders for his leadership to end the U.S.-backed war in Yemen. I appreciate his earlier efforts to stop this country's warmongering without congressional approval. When asked that day, he agreed to introduce another Yemen War Powers Resolution. It's time to make that happen, now, the tools already exist. This is the only legislation that meets the urgency. Yemeni-Americans agree that other war powers reform actions...
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