BRATTLEBORO — Last year, on U.S. profits of $5.6 billion, Amazon didn't pay federal income tax.
The company's “warehouse associates,” who work at $12.63 per hour, did.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
An investigation conducted by Vermont Department of Health scientists and released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that transmission of the coronavirus can occur during multiple brief exposures with someone who is infected. According to a news release, staff from the Health Department and the Department of Corrections looked into an instance in which a state correctional officer became infected after several brief interactions with incarcerated people who had COVID-19. None of the individual...
I do not know the depth of suffering felt by my Black and Brown friends and neighbors in our community, but I mourn for them deeply. I can say I do know how raw and broken I felt when Christine Blasey Ford spoke for survivors like myself who never got justice and how the person who assaulted her was protected by those in power and compounded her trauma with the dismissal of her experience and questioning of her character. I...
BRATTLEBORO-Singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy is having a moment in the spotlight. Her new EP The Sun Doesn't Think was released on April 26, less than a year after her critically acclaimed album Echo the Diamond emerged to garner national attention from The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and many others. "While I was on tour for Echo the Diamond, I was writing this EP," says Glaspy, who will perform "Margaret Glaspy: Unplugged" at the Stone Church this...
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