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With the first three months of Donald J. Trump's presidency in the books, three aides who work for Vermont's Congressional delegation offered a bit of short-term optimism on May 3 about what might happen to critical federal programs under the Trump adminstration. At a forum at Landmark College presented by the Brattleboro Development Credit Corp.'s Southern Vermont Economy Project, the overriding theme was for Vermonters to not panic over proposed cuts to programs that aid rural communities. “There are a...
During the Civil War of the 1860s, our country mobilized its entire society and economy to wage an epic struggle in which 620,000 people died. During the Great Depression, with the New Deal and Square Deal, the Roosevelt administration wrestled with the economic meltdown, thus initiating a new era of government interventionism to address a national emergency. During the 1940s, the United States and its allies confronted fascism in Europe and in the Pacific. While on a wartime footing, the...
Long before she created her popular daily newspaper comic strip “Rhymes With Orange,” Hilary B. Price was fired from her job as a pizza waitress. As her boss explained, “You're a lovely girl, but slow, and you attract trouble wherever you go.” Price brought some of her trouble to Brattleboro last Saturday when she delivered the keynote speech at Scholastic Art & Writing Awards ceremony at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. “I love to do talks,” Hilary says. “My...
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