Excellent article. Murder is never an acceptable solution for workplace conflict. I get the sense that one interruption in the chain of events would have caused things to turn out differently.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
In its draft report to the Legislature this month, the Vermont Tax Structure Commission recommended shifting the education tax from a property tax to an income tax. The commission isn't the first to suggest this change: The Public Assets Institute, a Montpelier-based think tank, agrees with this concept. Last week, Rights & Democracy Vermont held a meeting for parents interested in school funding. Stephanie Yu, deputy director with the Public Assets Institute, outlined how an income tax would benefit Vermont's...
Beatriz Fantini is a professor emerita at SIT, where she worked for 50 years. She is a freelance writer and has published short stories in her native Bolivia and in Venezuela. Her husband, Alvino Fantini, is an SIT professor emeritus. BRATTLEBORO-Most universities were founded by people who believed in intellectual growth, accumulated knowledge and experience, and who had the means to make it happen. These visionaries were committed to the success of the institutions they created. Some institutions were established...
Brattleboro Concert Choir music director Susan Dedell recently had a friendly argument with a colleague who disliked the word “entertainment” being used to characterize something as serious as the playing and listening of classical music. Dedell disagreed. “I think 'entertainment' is a great word!” she exclaimed. Long interested in the meanings and origins of words, Dedell discovered that “entertain” had connotations that included such meanings as “to reach,” “to engage,” and “to show hospitality.” “That's precisely what we are doing...
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