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BRATTLEBORO-I recently challenged Ture Nelson, the Republican candidate for Vermont attorney general, to explain what seemed to me like unquestioning support for all controversial police actions. Having personally experienced, as crime victims, the frustration of the local prosecutor's catch-and-release program, both my wife and I fully get it that we have prosecutors who don't want to prosecute criminals. (In fact, our local state's attorney's office's "victim advocate" seems to think his job is to put us in our place and...
Tuba Skinny brings its world-renowned traditional New Orleans jazz to the Latchis Theatre on Thursday, Aug. 31st at 7 p.m. "Tuba Skinny came to our attention through a super fan who encouraged us to book them," says Jon Potter, executive director of Latchis Arts, in an email to The Commons. "Since then, I've become absolutely hooked on their music. It's fun, very tuneful, and very rhythmic. They get your toes tapping." Potter described Tuba Skinny as "some of the premier...
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