BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Town Meeting members will once again vote on whether to enact a 1-percent local option sales tax at Annual Representative Town Meeting on March 22. Meeting members last year did not approve the tax, which, in general, applies to items that are already taxed under the statewide sales tax. The Department of Taxes has a two-page list of taxed and exempted items. Opponents of the tax fear it will hurt local businesses feeling the strain of a down economy. “We...
Guitarist Glenn Jones, a friend and musical protégé of folk guitar hero John Fahey, will perform at the downtown Brattleboro art space Epsilon Spires on Thursday, April 14, at 8 p.m. The event will also feature Vic Rawlings, a musician, documentary filmmaker, and instrument-builder based in Western Massachusetts. “Jones is a master of the guitar style known as 'American Primitive,'” a news release states, “a term coined by Fahey to describe an intricate fingerpicking style typical of country blues and...
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch tries to talk a good game about serving the people. But his performative puffery, like bragging about not taking PAC contributions while still raking it in from trade associations that are nothing but PACs with another name, shows that he is as at the heart of the problem that the U.S. Congress has become. Welch is very popular in Vermont. His Republican opponent faces an extreme uphill battle to get traction in the race, and any...
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