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...
After a long, often acrimonious, process of negotiation that included bitter opposition from alumni and former faculty and staff, Marlboro College no longer is a college in Marlboro. On July 21, the school's campus was sold to Democracy Builders Fund, and two days later, the college's trustees announced that the transfer of Marlboro's programming, assets, and endowment to Emerson College in Boston was complete. The Vermont Attorney General's Office announced that it would not intervene in either transaction after scrutinizing...
When evaluating any legislative action, I always step back and ask, “What is the core purpose of this bill?” In examining the minimum wage increase bill, the purpose - from my perspective - is to ensure that Vermonters working a full-time job are not forced to toil in poverty but rather can experience the dignity of work that earns a livable wage. I have always had a commitment to helping my working neighbors move ahead, and I thought that this...
In a collaboration with Tribeca Film Festival former director Nancy Schafer, Next Stage Arts Project in Putney presents [framed], a brand new series of feature length documentary films. Beginning on March 30, at 7:30 p.m., at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill, [framed] will run for six consecutive Thursdays. Each movie will be presented by the filmmaker with a Q&A after the screening. A documentary film, according to the OED, may be simply a nonfictional motion picture intended to document...
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