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BRATTLEBORO-This year, Brattleboro has the opportunity to change the way we vote on important matters which often impact the budget, and by extension, our property taxes.
“Representative” Town Meeting clearly had an agenda and not my interests (or the interest of many other tax-paying property owners) in their sights. It is outdated in the context of present times.
Australian ballot would allow each eligible person one vote. I have been a Brattleboro resident for over 27 years and certainly know enough people, having raised a daughter here. Yet the ballot, which at times has fewer than 14 candidates to fill all spots, has names on it I do not recognize, save two or three. And of those few, I have no idea how they would vote, even if they are “nice people.”
Very few can or do attend Representative Town Meeting.
My ballot is filled out, and though in some regards I don't care who sees who I voted for, but given the current state of surveillance and near-state of autocracy, I noticed the sticker on the “voted ballot envelope” has my name and address on it, and find that...
What Kate Bowen is grappling with is a class issue. In Putney, it might present more as a cultural issue. Although “class” is a fairly complex concept (just look it up in Wikipedia!), it is a scale that assigns inequity: the haves vs. the have-nots, the entitled vs. the...
It'd be great if a young turnout for Bernie Sanders turns out in force in the March 1 presidential primary. I was pleased that U.S. Representative Peter Welch stated that he will throw his support behind Sanders - support that is critical, as Welch is a superdelegate. So, of course, I was disappointed to hear that Senator Leahy not only endorses Hillary Clinton but says he will place his superdelegate vote toward her regardless of what we-the-people-of-Vermont want, should the...
