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Voices

Reasonable voices!

By
John Mlynick
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 — Issue 418

Finally, voices of reason! I have watched this situation unfold, and I am flabbergasted how quickly it got out of control.

I waited and waited for reasonable voices to make their thoughts known. Thank you for speaking up!

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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News

Brattleboro veterans group chapter disbands

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 — Issue 753

After 23 years, Brattleboro Chapter 843 of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is disbanding. Its final meeting is set for March 14. Leonard Derby of Brattleboro, who has been the chapter's president for the past 22 years, said he recently decided to step down, and "no one was willing to take over the chapter. Our membership is aging and several members are [disabled]. That makes it tough to carry out our mission." Derby said VVA Chapter 843, which also has...

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Voices

Mainstream media: call a lie a lie

By
Tim Kipp
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 — Issue 393

The Trump administration has an ongoing conflict with the truth. The mainstream media continues to torture itself and consumers with its euphemistic language used to describe Trump's delusions: “untruths,” “falsehoods,” “misrepresentations,” “contradictions,” “unsubstantiated information,” and now - best of all, from Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway - “alternative facts.” The media needs a thesaurus. How about the words “lies” and “hypocrisy”? Perhaps we are expecting too much from media corporations that gave Trump some $2 billion worth of free coverage during...

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Arts

Artist adapts to a virtual world — virtually

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 — Issue 592

Roger Sandes is not taking the pandemic lying down. One of the founding members of the renowned Rock River Artists and creator of graphic-intensive, often grand-scale works, Sandes says he has found inspiration in the COVID-19 era to get more of his art into the world. “Many of my sales tend to be face to face,” he said in a news release, “so getting my art out to people in the time of COVID has been particularly difficult.” As a...

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