I thought Vermont had more sense than this. We, the people of the 17 towns of southern New Hampshire, have fought the Kinder Morgan pipeline and do not want it in our state.
What is wrong with the so-called “green state”?
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...
Rail passengers in southern Vermont will soon have more travel options, but they will first have to travel to Greenfield, Mass. to take advantage of them. Starting this summer, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will expand passenger rail service between Greenfield and the newly renovated Union Station in Springfield, Mass. According to a Feb. 1 report in the Springfield Republican, MassDOT plans to use Amtrak trains and personnel to provide two round-trip trains each day, one in the morning...
If you're one who likes to be in the know when the Academy Awards roll around, you might be catching American Fiction, a complex satire nominated for several Oscars to be awarded March 10. If you see the film, you can catch a hometown splash: Green Writers Press (GWP) as part of an "authentic set with real publishers from New England," says Dede Cummings, who founded the press nearly 10 years ago. She recalls that in 2020, she received an...
In her memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence Rebecca Solnit writes, “To be a young woman is to face your own annihilation in innumerable ways.” Nothing proves her point more powerfully than the debacle of the Supreme Court as it debated the likely demise of legal abortion in this country. With stunning ignorance of and disregard for women's lives, five men and one woman in black robes pontificated and danced around the real issue before them: women's bodily integrity, agency, and...
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