BRATTLEBORO — I have come to view Donald Trump simply as “The Abscess.”
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...
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). (1)The CCC was a public works program that operated from 1933 to 1942 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. It targeted single men, 18–25 years old, and World War I veterans in relief of families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression. The program provided unskilled manual labor in environmental conservation and the development of natural resources in rural lands.
BRATTLEBORO-Learning one musical instrument takes years of study, possibly lessons, learning to read music, practice, and more practice. Now, imagine a band where each member has to learn four or five instruments because they swap instruments and lead vocals on every song. You get a band called Fantastic Cat, which debuts at the Stone Church on Tuesday, May 6. Called "gloriously fun," "the Harlem Globetrotters of Americana" by Rolling Stone and "some of New York's best singer-songwriters," by West Virginia...
The Trump administration has brought into stark relief the true lack of morality of the Republican party. The transformation from an organization supported decades ago by members of the Moral Majority to one that acts more like the mob than a governing party has been supercharged under the leadership of the current president. This is fascinating. I think I might not be so different from many on the left: I do not believe in God, and I do not go...
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