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Voices

Populist movement has Jill Stein

By
William Brighenti
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 — Issue 364

Wow, thanks for dismissing Jill Stein.

The populist movement doesn't have to wait to move forward - Jill Stein is a candidate. Thanks for ignoring her. Why did you even bother to mention her name?

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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Have we turned a stalker into a local folk hero?

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 — Issue 752

Readers will have much to enjoy about Joyce Marcel's feature, in which she writes about what is widely regarded as a piece of Brattleboro lore. We publish it with that hope and in that spirit. But think about it. A woman came to Vermont with her children in 1974 to elude an estranged partner who then tracked her down and obsessively pursued her, literally ignoring requests to leave and not taking "no" for an answer. After seeing the 3-foot-tall message...

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Voices

Property lines meet at the center of the road

By
Whit Blauvelt
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 — Issue 725

Your article mentions a complaint by Laura Campbell about "WWHT's 'startling' characterization of lots on opposite sides of Carol Brown Way as 'contiguous,' when they touch at no point; rather, the lots are separated by a busy thoroughfare owned and maintained by the town of Putney." Ms. Campbell may be ignorant of the standard relationship of property lines to town roads in Vermont: each lot has its boundary at the street's center. Two lots on opposite sides of a street...

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Arts

Balking at biomass

Wednesday, September 6, 2017 — Issue 424

In 2008, Alan Dater and Lisa Merton released their award-winning film Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, which tells the story of the Kenyan activist who started the Green Belt Movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work. Implied in the prize committee's honoring of Maathai is the acknowledgement that environmental issues can have far-reaching effects for societies and the planet. Merton says that experience showed her and Dater that environmental rights, economic justice, human rights, and...

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