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Voices

Wants to hear more about options

By
Jack Lilly
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 — Issue 467

DUMMERSTON — Wonderfully detailed and complete article on the status of recycling and trash disposal but no information on how options affect the environment and climate change.

I would love to read more in a future story.

Voices

Southern Vermont has been here before

By
Adam Grinold

Adam Grinold is executive director of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation. For more about the...

A fully democratic process

By
Dan DeWalt

Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...

A resistance emboldened by love

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Town Meeting: an extremely rare direct democracy

By
Bahman Mahdavi

NEWFANE-Town Meeting, a state holiday usually held on the first Tuesday in March, is a...

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Welch bill calls for feds to compensate nuke fuel towns

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 — Issue 429

Regardless of how quickly Vermont Yankee is decommissioned, Vernon will be stuck with the plant's spent nuclear fuel for the foreseeable future. U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., thinks that hardship should be worth some money - potentially millions of dollars per year. Welch has teamed with a Connecticut congressman to introduce a bill requiring the federal government to send annual compensation to communities that are forced to host radioactive waste due to the lack of a national repository for that...

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Voices

Shut up and collect our taxes

By
Bill Wilmot
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 — Issue 493

In recent weeks, The Commons has presented well-reasoned arguments for and against increasing Brattleboro's local-option sales tax. Penned by local business owner Nancy Braus (against the increase) and Selectboard member Tim Wessel (pro increase), these were valuable contributions to the public debate. Unfortunately, the public servant chose to step beyond the merits of the increase and question whether the business owner even has a legitimate role in the discussion. “I ask that Nancy, and other shopkeepers who are not Brattleboro...

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Arts

Diamond discusses her new book, ‘Screwnomics’

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 — Issue 481

The idea that women should always work for less or, even better, for free, is the economic theory explained in Screwnomics, the subject and title of a new book by Rickey Garde Diamond that she will discuss at Everyone's Books on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 6 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the book store and the Brattleboro branch of the American Association of University Women. Despite a major shift in economic ideas over the past 50 years, few women...

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