The poor will be impacted by climate change to a far greater degree than the wealthy, though all will be affected.
If the carbon fees are rebated to citizens, any price bubbles will be fully compensated for.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Instead of giving your beloved a box of chocolates on St. Valentine's Day, why not let a puppy do it? The Windham County Humane Society is holding its first-ever “Valentine's Day Puppy-grams” fundraiser. For a donation of $50, a puppy - accompanied by a human volunteer - will visit your loved one at their home or workplace in Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Newfane, Putney, and Vernon. “The recipient will have a half an hour to enjoy the puppy - and the...
On Tuesday, March 12, at 6:30 p.m., Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden will speak at Putney Public Library about "Comics and Queerness in Vermont and Beyond." From Charles Schulz's Peanuts to Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, say organizers, "comics have been a part of American culture since print first began." But comics are no longer relegated just to the newspaper, and "as books like Maus or Persepolis have proven," we are currently experiencing a "golden age for graphic novel storytelling." What...
Abenaki and non-Abenaki at the Living Earth Action Group–sponsored gathering in Westminster West Jan. 21 exemplified "community" in the broadest of terms. Abenaki present relayed experiences from their history that recounted millennia-deep cultural roots throughout northern New England and southeastern Canada, as well as the nearly-five-century history of destructive encroachment on their lands. Efforts of invading colonial powers yielded, among other things, modern isolation among Abenaki bands. From distant lands, resultant imposed political boundaries and subsequent rules slowly tore the...
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