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Voices

Love and dignity for the unborn, too

By
Tim Grant
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 — Issue 716

BELCHERTOWN, MASS. — Dan DeWalt says, “If we don't accept all people on the planet with love and dignity, then we will continue to allow violence, strife, and injustice.”

But since Democrats support abortion, they're the ones who don't accept all people on the planet with love and dignity.

Voices

'I needed that'

By
Constance Cline

BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...

Trump and Texas redistricting

By
Cathi Wilken

BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...

Gov. Scott: The damage is done

By
Meg Lucas

SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...

Calling it what it is

By
Paula Marks

GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...

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Lawmakers get ready for a busy final month

By
Joyce Marcel
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 — Issue 710

Our state legislators. We elect them, they disappear into rented Montpelier apartments, they get assigned to committees, they have meetings in the State House, they write - or help write - legislation, they send out newsletters. And meanwhile, the rest of us go about our daily lives and wonder: What exactly are they doing up there? Now that they are in the final weeks of the 2023 session, The Commons thought it would be interesting to see what Windham County...

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Voices

Honoring men in the League of Women Voters

By
League of Women Voters of Vermont
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 — Issue 770

MONTPELIER-At the League of Women Voters, we are often asked, "Can men be members of the League?" And our answer is, "Of course, yes!" However, this was not always the case. When the league was founded 104 years ago, it was an organization for women, providing support for suffrage and encouraging their participation in the political process. It would be 50 years before the League of Women Voters would open its membership to men. On May 7, 1974, the League...

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Arts

BMC Chamber Series features Con Moto

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 — Issue 782

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Music Center Chamber Series welcomes Con Moto Friday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. The program will include Mozart's Adagio and Fugue in C minor, KV546; Haydn's Op. 33 No. 5 in G major; Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's "Romanze"; and Dvořák's "American Quartet," Op. 96 in F major. The Con Moto ensemble, last heard in the BMC 2016 concert season, brings together four extraordinary musicians, all of whom have local musical connections. Joining cellist and Con Moto founding member Judith Serkin...

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