Alimony reform is much needed. Vermont needs it more than any other state, considering the ex-spouse is allowed to get remarried and still receive the alimony. That is abhorrent.
Bad law is allowing too many people to take advantage.
BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
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...
The road less traveled - a reference to Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken - served as a theme that accompanied Kevin F.F. Quigley as he took the helm this past weekend as the ninth president of Marlboro College. Over three days, the college celebrated the inauguration of Quigley, who took over from Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, the college's president for 11 years. The inauguration weekend kicked off Sept. 11 with an afternoon of service, with approximately 80 students and staff...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Camerata presents "Make it a Place of Springs" Sunday, April 21, at the Brattleboro Music Center. This 4 p.m. concert will feature Renaissance-era and modern music exploring nature and the natural world. "Our spring program is all about nature, with pieces on swans, crickets, deer, seasons, flowers, trees, fleas, bees, and blue birds," Musical Director Jonathan Harvey said in a news release. "We're singing in English, Latin, Italian, and French to music from the Renaissance era as well...
Michelle Bos-Lun and Richard Nelson are state representatives who sit across the table from each other in the House Agriculture, Food Resiliency, and Forestry Committee. Bos-Lun is a high school teacher from Westminster, representing the Windham-3 district in her third term. Nelson, a dairy farmer from Derby, is a first-term representative serving Orleans-1. We are two Vermont state representatives - one Democrat, one Republican - serving together on the House Committee for Agriculture, Food Resiliency, and Forestry. Understanding the needs...
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