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Focus on Act 46

On towns’ options for school choice and the pressure for change
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 — Issue 355

• Viewpoint: Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe on towns' ultimate autonomy in offering school choice to their respective students.

• Counterpoint: Compass School Director Rick Gordon responds to Holcombe's piece.

• Viewpoint: David Schoales, a member of the Brattleboro Selectboard and Town School Board, offers his personal point of view on the rush to change.

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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Vermont celebrates the return of passenger trains

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 — Issue 622

The skies were gray with intermittent rain. The southbound train was 45 minutes late. And no one on the crowded platform at the Bellows Falls station cared. The train was back. That was all that mattered. After a Covid-imposed hiatus that began in March 2020 when Amtrak shut down all passenger rail service to Vermont, the Vermonter made a triumphant return on July 19 at this historic rail junction. Every rail station in Vermont had a welcome-back celebration to mark...

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Voices

The homelessness crisis that you never heard about

By
Janis M. Hall
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 — Issue 454

Susan's home was making her sick. She'd searched a long time to find this apartment. With a small budget and health problems requiring certain conditions, it wasn't easy to find a place that worked. And now it wasn't working anymore. Her throat was on fire, and she felt like she had the flu. Many days, she had migraines or trouble breathing. She couldn't concentrate. Susan's work, which she did on the computer in her home office, was becoming seriously impaired.

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Arts

The Root Social Justice Center celebrates two years with party

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 — Issue 322

On Saturday, Sept. 12, at 5:30 p.m., The Root Social Justice Center will be hosting a second anniversary party to celebrate its second year of operation and raise funds to keep its doors open for years to come. The event is open to the public and free, though donations are encouraged. The Root Social Justice Center, located at 28 Williams Street in the Whetstone Arts Building, provides a physically and financially accessible space to support and bring together communities working...

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