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...
The last full-time news director on a commercial radio station in Vermont, Tim Johnson Arsenault - known on the air as Tim Johnson - has served the Brattleboro area for 40 years. “Pardon me, I might get a bit misty here,” said Johnson during an interview at the WTSA radio station on Putney Road. Johnson rarely speaks about himself as, he said, it makes him uncomfortable. He also describes himself as “thin-skinned.” Colleagues, meanwhile, describe him as generous, compassionate, and...
The hit of last fall's Brattleboro Literary Festival, when she was one of the outrageous judges of the Literary Death Match, Carmelita Tropicana is returning to Vermont for a performative talk with actor/director/writer Ain Gordon. “I had such a blast at the festival that I can honestly say that I had one of the best times I ever had in front of an audience,” says “Tropicana,” whose irrepressible spirit and irreverent humor have delighted audiences for more than three decades.
ALSTEAD, N.H.-FFOTUS (First Felon of the United States) is an extortionist. Merriam-Webster's definition of extort is "to obtain from a person by force or undue or illegal power or ingenuity." Extortion is defined as "the act or practice of extorting especially money or other property; especially: the offense committed by an official engaging in such practice." What would you call or label what happened to Columbia University? It capitulated to FFOTUS's demands that it identify every demonstrator and put its...
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