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.
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...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Stephen Perkins, executive director of the Vermont Historical Society (VHS), will present the annual Richard O. Hathaway Award for best historical project in the state to the five local institutions that created and led the National Endowment for the Humanities–funded, multi-year Brattleboro Words Project. “The Brattleboro Words Project has created for our community and visitors from near and far three very accessible, informative ways to learn about our literary, printing, and publishing legacy,” Brattleboro Town Manager Peter Elwell said in...
Bestselling author and Harvard University professor Jill Lepore will discuss her most recent work, These Truths: A History of the United States, at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., in Brattleboro on Saturday, April 27, at 7 p.m. Lepore's title signals the thrust of her historical investigation. As she writes in her introduction, “The American experiment rests on three political ideas - 'these truths,' Thomas Jefferson called them - political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people,” each...
Earlier this month, Oregon senator Jeff Merkley visited the Texas-Mexico border. It is difficult to minimize the horror of what he witnessed. Outside a dead Super Walmart, he was escorted by the police away from the facility without being able to witness the conditions inside. We know there are thousands of children being held in prison camps such as this facility. These children range in age from babies to teens. If a sitting senator is not permitted to see the...
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