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Voices

Shameful sham of American justice

By
Susan Aldridge
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 — Issue 549

BRATTLEBORO — The Senate votes against allowing witnesses or testimony. President Trump is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of justice. He refused to send subpoenaed information to the House, refused to let subpoenaed people testify to the House, and a small majority of Senators shamefully shammed justice as they stand as bystanders to the bully by refusing to allow any witnesses or testimony in the Senate.

They were wrong. The American public has watched the impeachment process.

We are all witnesses to this shameful sham of American justice! And it matters!

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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The mean streets of Brattleboro

By
Joyce Marcel
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 — Issue 781

BRATTLEBORO-A great tsunami of pain is coming toward us, and there's no getting out of the way. Oh, sorry. False alarm. It's already here. I'm talking about homelessness. We see some piece of the situation every day. On the streets, camped by the river, in the library, panhandling near the supermarkets. Every day we see people who are vulnerable, exposed, and hungry. Vulnerable to violence, to theft, to all sorts of criminality. Exposed. So exposed. Imagine not ever having a...

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Voices

'These are human beings, and as a society, we are failing them'

By
Cindi Brown
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 — Issue 733

The problem is the drugs - my father, last time I talked to him, was living in a tent in Brattleboro. I live in Maine, where I see encampments in Portland, too. Recently, 140 people were offered shelter and they declined, choosing to live outside. We can't talk about the homelessness problem without discussing the drug problem - and that these drugs that are out there and are so powerful that withdrawals can kill people, or at best be agonizing.

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Arts

Marlboro College presents Paul Cohen, Sally Pinkas in concert

Wednesday, September 11, 2019 — Issue 527

The opening concert in Marlboro's Music for a Sunday Afternoon series for 2019-20 features acclaimed chamber musicians Paul Cohen (cello) and Sally Pinkas (piano) on Sunday, Sept. 15. The concert starts at 3 p.m. in Ragle Hall, Serkin Center for the Performing Arts, and is free and open to the public. Cohen and Pinkas will present a program of Schumann, Rachmaninoff, and a J.S. Bach suite with Five Inserts for Solo Cello by Matan Rubinstein, Marlboro faculty member. Rubinstein describes...

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