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The writer served on the Brattleboro Selectboard for six years, four as chair.
BRATTLEBORO-The Selectboard should be about building bridges and community. It should be about inclusiveness, dialogue, and respect for constituents. It should be about delivering core municipal services in a cost-effective manner consistent with taxpayers’ ability to pay.
BRATTLEBORO-I strongly support Town Meeting form of government for Brattleboro, because it calls on we the people to join together, deliberate, and serve as a check on how the Selectboard proposes to operate the town. At Town Meeting, we listen carefully to each other. We respectfully consider what our...
I will be a candidate to be elected Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting moderator. A lawyer by trade, I have worked for 17{1/2} years at the Windham County State's Attorney's Office prosecuting serious felony and other cases. My municipal service in Brattleboro includes: • six years on Selectboard, with four...
Serving on Brattleboro's Selectboard has been one of the greatest honors and privileges of my life. Government is a fundamental public trust, and I am humbled to have been elected to represent and work for Brattleboro's citizens in providing oversight and direction for our town. I am running again because I want to continue the important work we are doing. I have many priorities. Our government should be responsive, open, and transparent. Everyone should be able to have a voice...
We don't want Entergy to be producing nuclear power and storing nuclear waste in Vermont: this is the view of many Vermonters (myself included). However, our ability to impact the decision whether Vermont Yankee is going to continue operating appears subject to serious restrictions. Our federalist system of government in the United States results in a division of authority between the federal government and the states. While some decisions are controlled locally, other matters are controlled by Washington D.C., where...
