BRATTLEBORO — Last year, on U.S. profits of $5.6 billion, Amazon didn't pay federal income tax.
The company's “warehouse associates,” who work at $12.63 per hour, did.
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Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
With 10 percent of the town's registered voters having signed a petition asking for a revote, voters will reconsider the March 1 Annual Town Meeting decision to renovate and expand the Guilford Free Library. The project, at an anticipated cost of $1,013,300 will be reconsidered at a Special Town Meeting Tuesday, May 24. Polls will be open at the town office from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The question will be handled via Australian ballot, as was the original. The...
I am writing, as a white person, to other white people. My Black friends don't need to hear me talking, since they know this all by heart. I want to make that clear. We all know the name of George Floyd now, and that of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who was convicted of murdering him last week. Anyone who knows the United States watched the trial closely, since flames were already kindling in Minneapolis. A verdict that let Chauvin...
Set in North Haven, a fictional Vermont community with its gallery of locals, eccentrics, and survivors, probably recognizable to residents in the know, the characters in Mimi Morton's posthumously released collection of short stories, Life List, written over a period of 12 years, become as indelibly imprinted in the imaginations of the book's readers as, say, those living in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. One thing that often makes a short story no more than a minor accomplishment is, paradoxically, its...
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