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Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc.,
BRATTLEBORO-While it's encouraging that we're finally approaching a more inclusive way of recognizing the voices...
BRATTLEBORO-The results from the Charter Revision Committee's recent poll in Districts 7, 8, and 9...
Peter Adair is the author of the books Sacred Universe and Sacred Earth. WESTMINSTER WEST-Unlikely...
State officials are allowing two Native American tribes to get involved in the proposed sale of Vermont Yankee. The Vermont Public Service board has ruled that both the Elnu Abenaki and Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi can act as “intervenors” in the state's review of the plant's purchase by NorthStar Group Services, a New York decommissioning company. Both NorthStar and current owner Entergy had objected to the Missisquoi Abenaki's intervention. But the Public Service Board sided with the tribe, saying its...
The computerness of modern life savages too many of my days. By “computerness” I mean the combination of my own computer’s erraticness and the perversity of systems and businesses I have to deal with. You can attribute some of my difficulty to being old. But most of the difficulties are not of my making. They’re the result of a) anyone’s fallibility in handling hyper-complexity, and b) underlying it all, the silicon chip, created 62 years ago. It has not increased...
Have you heard of Sheila and Neil, “the first non-flightless snails in the world?” How about a snoogle, kelpie, pegamallow, or preying beetis? Maybe you're familiar with the candy corn creature that “helps foster kids find their forever home with his tiny little brain and his huge heart”? Each of these whimsical creatures - and many more - are appearing at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) in the 2021 incarnation of Glasstastic, a popular biennial collaboration between elementary...
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