BRATTLEBORO — RE: “From Vermont family court to judging war criminals” [News, Oct. 10]:
Patty Whalen, and the entire wave of women appointed to the bench during the Madeleine Kunin era, brought Vermont forward in reducing gender bias in Vermont courtrooms, but she did not end it.
Vermont still has a long way to go.
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
It's easy to take Town Meeting for granted. It is, on its surface, the annual gathering of small-town voters to debate small-town things. It's an endearing New England tradition wrapped in local characters and tied with a string of Robert's Rules of Order. Town Meeting, however, is We the People made local. Yes, it's easy to roll one's eyes at an hour-long debate about hiring a dog catcher, concedes Susan Clark, the town moderator for Middlesex. Town Meeting is powerful...
BRATTLEBORO-The upcoming Democratic primary between Emilie Kornheiser and Amanda Ellis-Thurber is a political travesty. Praised by her colleagues in the House and Senate as "a tremendous leader" (Rep. Tristan Toleno) who "looks at tax policy in a different way that has eyes strictly on Vermonters and Vermonters' needs" (Rep. Emily Long), Kornheiser chairs the House Ways and Means Committee. She rose to that position of prominence in six short years. In last year's session she became the voice of a...
At the darkest time of the year, human beings have a tendency to slip into dark meditations and ruminative thinking. Write Action, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting writing and writers in southern Vermont, invites people instead to meditate on the theme of mercy, and to write a poem, a piece of fiction, or nonfiction prose with that virtue as a theme. All works must be 500 words or fewer. At the time of the solstice, people around the world...
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