Voices
Common interests, or us-versus-them?
Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
The Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) is encouraging communities along the river to participate in public information sessions as part of the states' responsibility to protect water quality in the next step of the relicensing of five hydroelectric facilities. The Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon hydroelectric projects, in addition to the Turners Falls dam and Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Facility in Massachusetts, are in the process of renewing their licenses with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). According to the CRC,
The Brattleboro Music Center's Season Guest series welcomes Zara Bode's Little Big Band on Friday, Feb. 24. Bode's group performs classic American swing. Inspired by the likes of Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, and Ella Fitzgerald, the Little Big Band features chanteuse Zara Bode (of Signature Sounds artists The Sweetback Sisters) and a horn section led by clarinetist and arranger Anna Patton. The Little Big Band plays classics with new takes on the old radio hits. The performance is set for...
What makes politicians publicly embrace a lie when the truth is staring them in the face? "There is an apartheid state here. In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state." A simple statement of fact - in this case made recently by Tamir Pardo, a former head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, referring to Israel's current system of treatment of Palestinians. Pardo is not the only Israeli official to say so.
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