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Published: 1/30/2021 10:00:05 PM Modified: 1/30/2021 10:00:03 PM The For the People Act would help Two GOP walls are now inactive: Donald Trump’s stupid and wasteful border wall, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s stone wall against H.R. 1, the For the People Act, which was introduced as the first bill in the 116th Congress. It passed the House in 2019, but McConnell immediately said it’s “not going to go anywhere in the Senate,” and it died on his desk. But 2021 is a new time for “we the people,” and a huge setback for the reactionary GOP. H.R. 1 (and the Senate versi...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — The historic Rockingham Town Hall clock tower, which presides over the downtown Square in Bellows Falls, needs some illuminating help of its own. Town Manager Scott Pickup said Friday that the lighting of some of the four faces of the clock tower was fading and work would start in early January to make the town clock more visible. “It’s not as bright as it should be,” he said. “The face of the clock has issues.” Pickup said the 1926 clock tower has a unique lighting system, but that at least on...

Me and My Circumstance Ortega y Gasset famously defined the individual by saying "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia" (I am I and what's around me). Although I may have said that I sort of backed into translation without having thought about it or having set my sights on it, I do have within me certain ingredients, innate or circumstantial, that could be said to have tilted me in that direction. Many far-flung genes have come to rest in my being, given the fact that my grandparents were born in four different countries: Spain, Cuba, England, and the United States. My Catalan grandfather married hi...

Washington, d.c. this radical madness looks like it's spreading, laura. why do you think it's happening? >> i think they are emboldened. i went to dartmouth college we edited a newspaper which originally reported on this thing at the baker library. if we so much looked at liberal students the wrong way we could find ourselves brought up on disciplinary= charges. these kids can rampage through the library when kids are studying for exams and as far as i can tell, the president of the university is going to do a big fat nothing. they get emboldened. they can bullying people and act like, you kno...

Washington, d.c. this radical madness looks like it's spreading laura. why do you think it's happening? >> i think they are emboldened. i went to dartmouth college we edited a newspaper which originally reported on this thing at the baker library. if we so much looked at liberal students the wrong way we could find ourselves brought up on disciplinary= charges. these kids can rampage through the library when kids are studying for exams and as far as i can tell, the president of the university is going to do a big fat nothing. they get emboldened. they can bullying people and act like, you know...