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Voices

David v. Goliath

By
Moss Linder
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 — Issue 136

Little Bread & Puppet state goes up against big nuke and the fed gummit.

What could go wrong?

Voices

With the right support, refugees in rural Vermont can thrive

By
Pablo Bose and Thomas Huddleston

Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...

Representative Town Meeting works for a town the size of Brattleboro

By
Rebecca Bartlett

BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...

The wonder of paradox

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Editing words about war, and our great divide

By
Jeff Potter

Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...

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If you vote by mail, you can’t pet the town clerk’s dog

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 — Issue 789

-This year's general election marks the third time that Vermont has mailed ballots to every registered voter, initially in 2020 as a response to the pandemic. The practice has been mostly accepted by - and even embraced by - voters. However, many still believe in voting in person. Whitingham voter Brian Sullivan said he chose to vote in person on Election Day because he prefers the experience of coming to the Municipal Center. "Voting in person makes me feel like...

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Voices

Family values are not expressed by what type of genitals you were born with

By
Dan DeWalt
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 — Issue 714

America's radical right has chosen to target drag shows and transgender people in their latest assault on family values posing as a defense of family values. Shocked cries about grooming and child abuse are spewing from their mouths like pea soup from Regan in The Exorcist. The very folks who are trying to bring back child labor and want to take food out of the mouths of poor children, are now suddenly very concerned for those children's welfare. Strange that...

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Arts

Jazz duo to perform at Marlboro College

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 — Issue 448

Marlboro College welcomes a duo of fascinating figures from New York City for their Music for a Sunday Afternoon concert on March 4. Composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph and pianist Alexis Marcelo will share a concert of wild and wide-ranging music. The concert will be held in Marlboro's Ragle Hall, Serkin Center for the Performing Arts, at 3 p.m., and is free and open to the public. Hailed as a “pioneer in world music” by The New York Times and...

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