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Firefighters positioned on the edge of community of Castaic, California during the Hughes Fire on Jan. 22, which burned more than 10,000 acres.

Democracy, ‘drill, baby drill,’ and our cars

We need a politics of possibility — one that celebrates our mindful relations with this gorgeous Vermont ecosystem and inspires a human-scale quality in how we move and live, and in what we build. Can we move beyond the tired, broken thing we already have and reach toward something genuinely worth having?
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Dave Cohen
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 — Issue 808

Dave Cohen is an integrative psychotherapist (davecohencounseling.com) specializing in approaches in mind/body modalities and ecopsychology. He also works as a consultant for Go! Vermont, providing free bike consultations for all Vermonters. Cohen's transportation work has been featured in numerous podcasts and the internationally released cargo bike documentary Motherload. He is writing a book, The Biggest Blindspot: Super-Sizing Our Bodies in a More-than-Human World.

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Please keep showing up

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Dan DeWalt
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 — Issue 808

WILLIAMSVILLE-Trump's hideous address to Congress is a reminder of how much we have to lose and how important it is to keep up our work to stop his power grab. This is hard work. There will be times when we feel let down by people who haven't yet joined...

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Trump does not represent my Christian values

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Judy Davidson
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 — Issue 808

BRATTLEBORO-On Feb. 25, the Reformer published an article describing how this administration's canceling of all federal funds for diversity, equality and inclusion programs is affecting local organizations whose mission is to to support the most vulnerable in our community. This administration sees such programs as "radical and wasteful" yet...

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Khalil's detainment is a chilling assault on civil rights

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Tatiana Schreiber
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 — Issue 808

PUTNEY-The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a chilling start to what will likely be more and more efforts to curtail free speech, free association, and a host of civil rights enshrined in our Constitution. Troy Edgar, deputy secretary of the DHS, told NPR host Michel Martin that Khalil was arrested because he had "put himself in the middle of the process of basically pro-Palestinian activity" while a graduate student at Columbia...

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Who is paying for the opinions in the mailbox?

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Wendy M. Levy
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 — Issue 808

BELLOWS FALLS-Today in my mailbox I found a big, glossy, glaring postcard (6 in. × 11 in., to be exact). It was from a group calling itself Americans for Prosperity. That sounds nice. Prosperity - who doesn't want that? The card wasn't nice, though. It had a lot of exclamation points and warnings about the impending doom of Act 18. The card didn't really explain what Act 18 actually is, but it told me "Vermont can't afford [it]!" "Tell your...

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'They didn't know how capable us women were, did they?'

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Elayne Clift
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 — Issue 808

Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues for almost 20 years. BRATTLEBORO-In his final week in office, President Biden signed important legislation that would allow a monument dedicated to American women to be placed on the National Mall. It would honor women's suffragists who, after 70 years of trying, would finally be recognized for what they achieved in 1920 - the right to vote. The Women's Suffrage National Monument was approved on the eve...

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A fresh look

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Lindsey Britt
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 — Issue 807

Lindsey Britt is a textile artist, solution-finder, award-winning vegan baker, and nonprofit administrator who serves on the Brattleboro Planning Commission and is a member of Compassionate Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-It's a run-of-the-mill gray top that I've had for so long I no longer remember where it came from. I wore it a lot over the years, so it got permanently discolored around the cuffs. For some reason my husband really likes it, so I've held onto it even though I've felt a...

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Reclaiming the story

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Tim Hayes
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 — Issue 807

Tim Hayes is retired as a junior high school teacher at Marlboro School, where he worked for over 20 years. NEWFANE-We are being encouraged by leaders to stay connected, stick together, and let our voices be heard and, indeed, this is essential. We are marching in Brattleboro with signs, chants, and speeches. So many of us around the country are ready and willing to hit the streets in this way, and this should increase in size and frequency. But I...

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