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...
On Dec. 5, Hayley Cartwright's world turned upside down with the sudden death of her father, Steve. The 17-year-old student was exceptionally close to the 47-year-old British expatriate. With the death of the local marketing professional and popular local radio personality, whose “Brit on Bratt” segment ran for years on WTSA, the emotional loss was staggering enough. But Cartwright, whose mother and other relatives are not in any position to take on the financial burden, has been faced with a...
The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a proposed plan for greenhouse gas mitigation: the electricity sector must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030. The rules are set on a state-by-state basis. I am in favor of cutting carbon emissions, but the EPA plan is arbitrary, ineffective, and political. The abatement standards are plain backwards: states that already have a clean-energy mix have to do a higher percent of abatement than states that burn large amounts of coal.
The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites everyone to join them on Friday, March 10, at 5 p.m., when their Literary Cocktail Hour presents Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler to discuss their book The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe. Register to join this online conversation at bit.ly/LitCocktail28. In this real-life adventure, the publisher of DC Comics comes to the rescue of a family trying to flee Nazi Berlin, their lives linking up with a cast...
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