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...
The stack of books that Matt Maranian has worked on keeps getting taller. The editor, columnist, designer, and author of Pad, Pad Parties, and co-author of both editions of the best-selling L.A. Bizarro, added two more tomes to his CV in the last few years - and another is on the way in May. One wonders when Maranian sleeps. Maranian, co-owner of Boomerang, the vintage and consignment clothing store he runs with his wife, Loretta Palazzo, is at the shop...
On Thursday, Sept. 22, Epsilon Spires will present the film The City Without Jews (1924) with a live soundtrack performed by klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and the pianist and silent film accompanist Donald Sosin. Based on a bestselling dystopian novel of the same name, The City Without Jews is set in a fictional version of Vienna in the decade following World War I. The new leader of the government believes that the Jewish population has become a threat to the...
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 Walmart Supercenter, Merkley was escorted by the police away from the facility without being able to witness the conditions inside. We know thousands of children are 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 conditions...
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