BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
An unexpected consequence of sending Windham County's own Congresswoman Becca Balint, D-Vt., to Washington is that she has become a national media star. Balint went viral last week when she defended trans kids during a hearing on corporate governance. And why trans kids were being discussed during a meeting on corporate governance was exactly the reason why she went viral. The House Oversight Committee was holding a hearing on the effects of ESG (environmental, social, and governance), an investing strategy...
Vermont Jazz Center celebrates International Jazz Day 2015 with a concert featuring students from four of the VJC's student ensembles. On Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m., at the Vermont Jazz Center on Cotton Mill Hill, performers will include the Youth Jazz Ensemble, the Women's Jazz Harmony Ensemble, the Latin Jazz Ensemble and the Vermont Jazz Center Sextet. Each group will play a set that lasts approximately 30 minutes. The concert is free and open to the public, but donations...
One segment of our politically divided nation consists of what is generally referred to as “the religious right” - an ultra-conservative minority group that forms the core support for President Donald Trump. There seems to be a profound inconsistency in this support, since Trump's personal conduct - especially his sexual escapades - seems to violate everything that this religious contingent claims to stand for. What, then, is there in Trump that this religious group identifies with so strongly as to...
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