PUTNEY — RE: “Brattleboro task force asks: What can we do about parking?” [The Commons, May 2].
Parking spaces are real estate - real estate that is not earning its full value.
Parking rates should be higher than they are.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
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BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
Steve Neratko has experienced the Deerfield Valley's housing troubles first hand. Dover's economic development director said that when he took that position a few years ago, he had a hard time relocating to the area. He had to take a short-term rental outside of town and then move a couple of times before finding permanent, long-term housing. “I definitely understand the difficulty people face,” he said. The rental and homeownership markets in Dover and Wilmington have struggled to have enough...
I'm wondering, since Texas has decided the death penalty should be applicable for certain cases of abortion (I presume it wouldn't be all cases), what about the case of one George W. Bush and his obvious crimes against humanity? According to Gilbert Burnham of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, there were 654,995 excess deaths due to the gratuitous American invasion of Iraq in March 2003, through summer 2006. Since the U.S.-initiated butchery there lasted well...
When I met Jonas Fricke more than 20 years ago, I was in deep need of some joy. I had seen a drunken man attack another man on Elliot Street, late at night after a bar closed, and the violence was haunting me. When I saw the poster advertising the “Pillow Fight in the Harmony Parking Lot!” I knew I had to go. Soon, feathers were flying in the air as laughing combatants - Fricke among them - chased one...
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