BRATTLEBORO — Last year, on U.S. profits of $5.6 billion, Amazon didn't pay federal income tax.
The company's “warehouse associates,” who work at $12.63 per hour, did.
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...
GunSense Vermont, a nonprofit, non-partisan advocacy organization for common-sense gun safety measures, will host a public reception to award the inaugural Leadership and Courage Award to Brattleboro resident and author Ann Braden. Braden founded GunSense Vermont following the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six educators were killed by a gunman. The event will take place at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 6 p.m. "Ann Braden's...
On Nov. 23 and 24, at 7:30 p.m., When I Put On Your Glove by Shoshana Bass will play the stage at Sandglass Theater in Putney. Last year Eric Bass, Sandglass Theater's artistic director and Shoshana's father, took Autumn Portraits to the Lizé International Puppet Festival in Taiwan, then returned to Putney to play this signature piece at Sandglass Theater for the last time. This year, Shoshana will bring her adaptation of the work in When I Put On Your...
Thursday, Aug. 6 and Sunday, Aug. 9, marked 75 years since the respective U.S. atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of civilians lost their lives in the immediate blasts or years later as a result of radiation poisoning. These bombings were ordered by then-President Truman to, as is popularly misunderstood, force the Japanese into surrender, thus ending World War II and preventing a ground invasion of Japan by U.S. Troops. However, there is...
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