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Voices

Real gun control

By
Byron Stookey
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 — Issue 187

BRATTLEBORO — A ban on sale of assault weapons would be good.

A ban on sale of votes by Congress would be better.

Voices

Town Meeting: an extremely rare direct democracy

By
Bahman Mahdavi

NEWFANE-Town Meeting, a state holiday usually held on the first Tuesday in March, is a...

In support of judges

By
Meg Lucas

This letter, submitted by Meg Lucas, is co-signed by Nancy Witherill (Bartonsville), Sherry Maher (Athens),

Ten ways you are being burned by billionaires

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Chuck Collins

Chuck Collins is a researcher, campaigner, and storyteller based at the Institute for Policy Studies,

When debt crowds out defense

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Jim Freedman

Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and author. BRATTLEBORO-In the 18th century, Scottish Enlightenment thinker...

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Getting the area to prepare for long-term storage

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 — Issue 200

Vermont Yankee and other nuclear plants no longer just spin turbines and produce electricity. Nuclear plants, and the states that host them, must also acknowledge these sites as the nuclear waste storage facilities they are, said nuclear waste expert Robert Alvarez. The industry has consistently “put the disposal cart before the storage horse,” Alvarez said April 18, sitting in the lobby of the Latchis Hotel, fresh from testifying before the Vermont House and Senate Natural Resources and Energy committees in...

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Voices

Truth about our politics

By
Stephen Fox
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 — Issue 364

Excellent; well done. Truth is hard to pinpoint these days. Keep up the good work, both to the author and to the publisher! I will be checking back for more. Could you write about the 12 states with documented fraud and the legal efforts to redo those primaries, please? I am kind of an expert on the worst of them, New York, and the snake pit of uncorrectable corruption that Albany has becoming as it lapses forward into the 21st-century...

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Arts

Retreat gets the red-carpet treatment

By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 — Issue 142

The Brattleboro Retreat had its Oscar moment on Feb. 26, when two of its own were honored for their work in two film festivals whose subjects deal with mental illness and addiction. Dr. Robert E. Simpson, executive director and CEO and Konstantin von Krusenstiern, senior development director were presented with Producer's Circle Awards at Rhode Island's annual Oscar Night America party in Providence. The award is presented to community and business leaders who have helped to nurture and build what...

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