BRATTLEBORO — I agree the wording on the ballot seemed biased.
The issue is the amendments were poor options for the most part, regardless of how they were presented.
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
Workforce development. Economic development. Revenue generation. Those three topics are what drive state Rep. Valarie A. Stuart, D-West Brattleboro, to run for her fifth term in the Vermont House. “At the end of the day, I think it's about people feeling good about their lives. Being able to feed their families. Going to a job. Pulling a Paycheck. Being able to put a house over their heads,” she said. It's what Stuart believes many people want. But, she added, the...
Politicians often like to pretend that there is only good and evil. This helps them give false choices to the public. This is happening today in Vermont's Congressional election. Candidate Becca Balint wanted money recently, and she thought it a good fundraising tactic to ask for donations while claiming her opponent is “anti-choice.” I am the person she is trying to stick that label on. She is being incredibly misleading. Here's why: To be clear, I am for protecting more...
Rock River Players (RRP) launches its 2022–23 season with Oscar Wilde's satire, The Importance of Being Earnest, Nov. 4 to 13 at the Williamsville Hall on Dover Road. Directed by RRP founder/co-artistic director Annie Landenberger, Wilde's greatest hit is the second large-cast comedy classic offered by the RRP since the pandemic, following last year's sell out, The Front Page. “Though Wilde labelled it 'a trivial comedy for serious people,' Earnest is a pretty irreverent satire, a poke in the fleshy...
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