Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
When it was announced last week that Lawrence Miller was leaving his spot as head of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development to become the state's health care czar, there was little doubt of about who his replacement would be. When it comes to economic development in Vermont, Patricia Moulton is known as a star performer. And so Moulton, who was midway through her fourth month as executive director of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corp., and had barely started...
An often-repeated criticism of Bernie Sanders and his campaign is that he has been an independent all his political life and therefore is not a “real” Democrat. OK. Got it. But I'm not sure that would overall be a liability today for a candidate running with Democratic Party support in the general election. In fact, a Sanders candidacy would bring back parts of the so-called Obama coalition, along with a larger percentage of the white and Black working-class vote. Hillary...
Write Action announced its annual Poetry and Prose Writing Contest. There is no theme this year. Entries in poetry and prose will be judged anonymously. The first-place winners in each category will be awarded $100, second-place winners get $50, and third-place winners $25 each. All will have the opportunity to read at this year's Literary Festival. Each category will be judged by an esteemed writer from the Vermont writing community. Eligible writers must live in southern Vermont or the tri-state...
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