BRATTLEBORO — Don't believe that Senator Jeanette White didn't understand that the Senate's marijuana legalization bill got transformed into a sellout to corporate interests.
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Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
“Overlooking everything is a lot different than being a volunteer,” says Darah Kehnemuyi, the new executive director of the Brattleboro Community Justice Center. Maintaining the reports required by the center's various grant funders, for example. The center's prisoner re-entry programs are some of the programs subsidized by money the justice center receives from the state through the federal Second Chance Act of 2007, signed into law the following year. Tucked away on the third floor of the Municipal Center on...
What if England's dirtiest politician hired William Shakespeare as his spin doctor? As the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, 2016 is being heralded around the world with a variety of festivals and staged productions. According to a news release, The Actors Theatre Playhouse will celebrate the Bard with staged readings of Bill Cain's contemporary “what-if” drama “Equivocation” on two Saturdays, July 9 and 16, at 7:30 p.m. The year 1609 proved to be a momentous one. It was near the...
Few everyday words carry such a sinister secondary meaning as the term “grooming,” a predatory process used to gain the trust of a potential victim. Moreover, few terms capture as clearly the premeditated and opportunistic nature of sexual violence, though we may all get glimpses of offender tactics in daily life. That's both the grim news and the basis of our collective power, though. We each have considerable potential to actually help shift outcomes of such dynamics and to protect...
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