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.
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...
Vermont Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint, D-Brattleboro, made it official on Dec. 13: She will be running for Congress in 2022. At her campaign kickoff event at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier, Balint said that she is running for the Democratic nomination “because we're facing huge challenges. Working families are struggling, the pandemic is raging on, real climate action can't wait, and our democracy itself is at risk. The future feels perilous. We can't tackle these challenges if...
Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal St., presents a pair of solo shows: "Water Way" by MC Noyes, premiering the artist's newest series of ink wash paintings, and Judi Forman, showing the artist's newest work creating one-of-a-kind jewelry. Both shows are on view through Feb. 10. Michael C. Noyes, based in Bellows Falls, has long maintained an oil painting practice which has been influenced by the artist's study of ink wash on paper, and of Chinese calligraphy and painting. The...
On May 3, I attended an impromptu rally/protest focusing on reproductive rights. I was wearing my clergy collar - not by chance. I was interviewed briefly by the Brattleboro Reformer, I suspect because the photographer had just been covering the other gathering across the street from Planned Parenthood. A religious group rallies there weekly to protest the abortions that, by the way, are not performed at that office. I'm here to tell you, if you read what the Reformer printed,
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