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Voices

The right thing, but still hard

By
Ann Firestone
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 — Issue 360

What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.

Voices

With the right support, refugees in rural Vermont can thrive

By
Pablo Bose and Thomas Huddleston

Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...

Representative Town Meeting works for a town the size of Brattleboro

By
Rebecca Bartlett

BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...

The wonder of paradox

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Editing words about war, and our great divide

By
Jeff Potter

Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...

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News

The gathering storm

By
Robert F. Smith
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 — Issue 811

BELLOWS FALLS-Unlike several of her Republican colleagues who have faced some very vocal voter outrage at town halls around the country, U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., was greeted by cheers and a lengthy standing ovation from the crowd at a packed-to-the-walls Bellows Falls Opera House on Monday evening. In her invitation to the meeting, Balint pledged her commitment to "standing against policies that undermine our democracy, attack our rights, raise prices and prop up billionaires at the expense of working...

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Voices

A thanks to union stewards at Brattleboro Food Co-op

By
Kathy M. Carr
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 — Issue 532

At one time, unions were common in America, but they have been busted and dwindled as “right to work” legislation has diminished union shops. In 1954, an estimated 35 percent of U.S. workers belonged to unions and in 2018 only 10.7 percent do. Fortunately, the Brattleboro Food Co-op has the benefit of being a union shop. Though a cooperative, there is a need for a union. A union is only as effective and strong as the stewards willing to step...

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Arts

Collaborative concert/reading to focus on mystic poet Rumi

Wednesday, July 22, 2015 — Issue 315

Poets Coleman Barks and Marie Howe and master musicians Eugene Friesen, cello, and Jamey Haddad, percussion, will join for a concert that will celebrate the art of language in performance of collaboration between poets and storytellers and master musicians, with a special focus on the mystic poet Rumi. In Barks's translations, the timeless gifts of the great Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi (1207-1273) contain surprising insights into the working of the human heart and psyche. In performance, Coleman's entertaining style, anecdotes,

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