Voices
Common interests, or us-versus-them?
Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
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...
Longtime Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) representative and current Vice Chair David Schoales has left his elected seat on the board. His resignation, sent to the district's central office last week, became effective on Oct. 22. Asked why he has decided to step down now, Schoales responded that recent public diatribe against the board has risen to an unpalatable level. He said he feels he can be more helpful if he is no longer a board member. “The ugliness does...
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-Actors Theatre Playhouse (ATP) presents poet Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 20 and 21, and 27 and 28, at 7:30 p.m. with a special 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, Sept. 22. Under Milk Wood was first commissioned as a radio play by the BBC in 1953 and described by Thomas as "a play for voices." It tells the story of one spring day in a small fictional Welsh village populated by some of...
A bill is introduced in a state to tax citizens to support the teaching of the Christian religion. Opponents circulate a petition opposing the measure. The petition's author says that no politician is a competent judge of religious truth, that every citizen has the right to religious freedom according to the dictates of their conscience and that the Legislature has no authority at all over religion. He states that Christianity does not require support from the government and that history...
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