Voices
Common interests, or us-versus-them?
Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, and Mollie Burke represent Brattleboro in the Vermont House of Representatives.
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
In observance of the Christmas and New Year's holidays, the town has announced the following closures: • Town offices will close at noon on Thursday, Dec. 24, and will be closed all day on Friday, Dec. 25. All town offices will be open for normal business hours on Thursday, Dec. 31 but will be closed on Friday, Jan. 1. Emergency services during both holidays will operate as usual. • Brooks Memorial Library remains closed to the public. Curbside service will...
GUILFORD-Today, it is Gaza that burns. And tomorrow? The story of civilization is full of sieges, atrocities, massacres... European colonialism, the African slave trade... the genocide of the original inhabitants of the Americas... the Holocaust... today, the atrocity in Gaza is the face of colonial civilization. And it is today that a new generation faces the barbarism presenting itself as civilization and shouts, No! Stop! Not in our name! A new generation of rebels is born. Yet the war machine...
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.-The Iron Horse in Northampton has reopened, but for me it is full of ghosts. In 1994, I got a job as the third-string music reporter for the Springfield Union-News (now The Republican) in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the time - when newspapers walked the earth like gods - it had a circulation of over 100,000 and covered the small city like a glove. It was the biggest job I'd ever had as a reporter up to then, and no...
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