RE: “'It's all about Vermonters': U.S. Rep. Welch campaigns for fourth term” [News, Oct. 24]:
Where is the money coming from? The United States of America is broke, the Democrats want more, and “We the People” get the bill - why?
As Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston has recently said, “When candidates go negative, it means they have nothing to talk about.” That describes Obama and Biden in all four debates.
The liberal media will not tell the truth - why?
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...
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Young people carrying signs chanted, “The planet is changing, so why aren't we?” and “No more oil, keep the carbon in the soil!” The youths - hundreds of them, and by some estimates, more than 1,000 of them - converged on Pliny Park and High Street, joined by protesters of all ages and from multiple communities in the biggest protest here since a 2012 march opposing the re-licensing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Later, a crowd of all...
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell recently made the following statement regarding industrialized hemp and its impact on Kentucky: “I am convinced that allowing its production will be a positive development for Kentucky's farm families and economy,” he said. “[Commissioner of Agriculture John Comer] has assured me that his office is committed to pursuing industrialized hemp production in a way that does not compromise Kentucky law enforcement's marijuana eradication efforts or in any way promote illegal drug use. “The utilization...
Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine will read and discuss Rumi, one of the greatest and most widely read spiritual poets, in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on March 5 at 7 p.m. Her talk, “Rumi: A Soul on Fire,” part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series, is free and open to the public. Rumi was a 13th Century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. His poems have been widely translated and have worldwide influence. Crumbine...
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