Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
Firefighters extinguished the flames. Now the Brattleboro community faces a long, and details-uncertain, rebuilding process. The Brooks House, an iconic downtown building constructed in 1871 after fire devastated the block between High and Elliot streets, fell victim to an electrical fire the night of April 17. The fire, caused by a building staple through an electrical wire, smoldered for an estimated 48 hours above a vacant apartment before bursting into flames damaging the building's top two floors. Jonathan Chase, owner...
Some thoughts about Ukraine: For the past few weeks I've heard pretty much nothing but sensationalist, war-fever stories in the U.S. press, including NPR and PBS (two of my main news sources). Even Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, stated recently that the media were exaggerating the threat of war. But of course it sells papers and boosts listener and viewer ratings. On Feb. 1, Amy Goodman's news show, Democracy Now!, devoted the entire hour to Ukraine. She interviewed peace activist...
Vaune Trachtman's “Now is Always” is the inaugural exhibit for the grand reopening of Vermont Center of Photography (VCP) in its new space at the corner of High and Green streets. The exhibit opens during Gallery Walk on Friday, Sept. 3 and runs through Sunday, Oct. 31. As described in a news release, Trachtman's work reveals a collaboration across time between her father and herself. Using her father's 90-year-old negatives from the Great Depression in Philadelphia and her own cell...
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