DUMMERSTON — Jeff Potter's article is excellent. One way to help homeless people like the woman in the article is to contact Governor Shumlin and our state legislators and ask them to increase funding for the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board.
This can be done by raising taxes on millionaires.
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...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
The Brattleboro Retreat announced the appointment of two new trustees, Kate O'Connor and Adam Grinold, who officially joined the hospital's board of directors on Sept. 23. Brattleboro resident Kate O'Connor currently serves as the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce and the vice chair of the Brattleboro Selectboard, according to a news release. She began her career in public service as an aide to former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin. For 14 years, she was a top policy...
The media outlet VTDigger recently hosted a debate with three candidates for Congress. I wonder, and have asked explicitly: How did they choose who to include and who to exclude from the debate? They haven't responded. So what? When the organization announced the debate, I immediately responded, informing that I am also a candidate and would like to participate. Well, who the hell am I? My name is Liam Madden. I am a Marine Corps sergeant who became the leader...
When fiber artist Jackie Abrams found herself becoming depressed because of the current political climate in America, she decided to do something about it. “Like millions, I was upset and was feeling bad about what would happen to our country,” Abrams says. But she quickly realized that rather than moping about the situation, she needed to act. “Since the only things I found myself capable of doing were making art and organizing,” she says, “I soon enough figured out a...
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