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.
Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
Despite its being a cold, overcast, and rainy Saturday morning, citizens and corporate sponsors throughout Vermont participated in Green Up Day on May 6. The local turnout was a bit smaller than in the past, but coordinators and volunteers at two Brattleboro Green Up sites expressed contentment with the ways in which the event was a success. “Obviously, every day should be Green Up Day,” Robin Rieske said with a laugh. Rieske, a certified prevention consultant for the Vermont Department...
After just walking a very short stretch of road on this Earth Day and nearly filling a 39-gallon trash bag with mostly alcohol containers, I would like to see people who drink and drive and who trash our roadsides sentenced to community service, cleaning up miles of roadway of all this trash. Then I would like to see them made to haul all the bags somewhere where they can stand over a barrel of water and clean all of those...
What are the various versions of truth we enact as we try to live an authentic life? What does being authentic mean amid multiple selves? These are the questions being posed in VOICES, an artistic framework focused on sounds, images, and language, providing a conceptual space in which a range of performers come forth to present their versions of truth and authenticity. VOICES debuts with a two-night production on April 14 and 15, starting at 7:30 p.m. both nights, at...
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