BROOKLINE — Thank you, Deb Luskin. It took guts to write this. And thank you to The Commons for publishing.
I am hopeful for change. I pray we can all be kinder to each other in the midst of these revelations.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
WESTMINSTER-After completing its 25th school year of operation, The Compass School recently and abruptly announced that it will be permanently closing. Though it had planned on operating for at least another year, financial difficulties the school had been facing for some time proved worse than expected. Those lingering problems, combined with what its board president termed a "domino effect" of circumstances, prompted the school's board of directors to unanimously vote to close the school immediately. Debts of $250,000, declining enrollment,
Roger Sandes is not taking the pandemic lying down. One of the founding members of the renowned Rock River Artists and creator of graphic-intensive, often grand-scale works, Sandes says he has found inspiration in the COVID-19 era to get more of his art into the world. “Many of my sales tend to be face to face,” he said in a news release, “so getting my art out to people in the time of COVID has been particularly difficult.” As a...
Elayne Clift's piece encapsulated perfectly what's happening. The media's portrayal of the us-versus-them playbook ends up normalizing what should be abnormal. No historical contexts - or, more importantly, no policy positions - that emerge from a framework of ideals based on helping people can come from the “horse race” mentality. The power of media will certainly define the Democratic field. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, for example, is such a creation. A good-government-and-transparency-policy person takes a back seat to the most recent...
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