England’s Trump
The English have their own Trump
His name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (AKA Boris or BOJO).
He’s a former journalist who has served as Prime Minister of the UK and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019.
March for Medicaid
On October 3 the Vermont Workers’ Center will hold a March for Medicaid in Bellows Falls. This is part of a national week of action coordinated by the Workers’ Center and the Nonviolent Medicaid Army, a growing national force fighting for universal healthcare and all economic and social rights for poor and working class people. The campaign is calling on Governor Scott to protect Medicaid by cutting the state’s contract with OneCare, a for-profit company siphoning off millions in Medicaid funding that should be spent on people’s healthcare, and to make good on Vermont’s commitment to universal healthcare as enacted in Act 48.
Will It Be A Funeral Or A War For Democracy?
Just when it looked as though the current political climate in this country could not get any worse, events unfolded that have pushed us closer to unprecedented constitutional and human crises. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court justice who changed the world for the better, has passed on. Her legacy will last for generations and life will be better for many Americans years after her death.
But the Republican politicians in Washington want to shorten the mourning period and act quickly to move the court as far to the right as they can. They have vowed to place a Trump appointee as quickly as possible and, because our government no longer serves the people, the minority viewpoint will prevail and the court will tilt to the right for too many years.
October Surprise?
The polls so-far don’t look too good for Trump’s re-election.
His ego will not accept a defeat. He WILL go to extreme measures to prevent this.
One extreme measure might be a war.
VFW $7 Lunch Specials Open to the Public 9/28 to 10/2 and Wed. Breakfast
VFW $7 Lunch Specials Sept. 28th – Oct. 2nd/Breakfast Sept. 30th
Mon – 2 chili cheese dogs w/ macaroni salad & coleslaw
Tues – chicken n biscuit w/ salad
Wed – breakfast 6am-9am
Wed – pulled pork grilled cheese w/ potato chips
Thur – stuffed cabbage rolls w/ salad (order ahead starting Tues)
Fri – tuna noodle casserole
Brattleboro’s Community Safety Review Committee (CSRC) Meeting Agenda
Brattleboro’s Community Safety Review Committee (CSRC) will meet on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, at 6pm on Zoom (with no physical location due to the ongoing social distancing requirements of COVID-19). The attached agenda contains information about how to access the meeting remotely.
Peter B. Elwell
Town Manager
Town of Brattleboro
Vote In a New Attorney General Because You Can Still Be Sent Out-of-State to a Private For-Profit Prison for a Marijuana Conviction!
ATTORNEY GENERAL CANDIDATES FOR THE NOV. 3, 2020 ELECTION
If there is anything you don’t like that the current Attorney General is doing, then vote for someone else. This is America!
Noticed Around Brattleboro – Fall 2020
Time once again to notice little things around town. It’s the easy add-a-comment diary designed so you can just jot a sentence or two rather than write entire paragraphs or stories. Simple!
To get you started:
Renaissance Antiques has a sign saying it is closing.
Amy’s Bakery has a sign saying it is for sale.
The West River water level is very very low.
The Fish & Chips parklet seems larger than the actual restaurant. And what a huge sign!
Imagine Trump or Biden In Church Praying For Yemeni Children Facing Starvation and US Missiles?
Noting the history of the child genocide in Yemen as only one example of America’s genocidal foreign policy and cruel criminal media managed political distraction away from compassionate public interest, article seeks to awaken enough of a feeling of outrage to promote public demand for a halt of what is the ongoing murder of a massive amount of children.
WSESD Board Special Meeting Agenda – Black Lives Matter Mural Statement from Town of Putney
NOTICE OF BOARD MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Board will hold a special meeting remotely at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, September 25, 2020 via Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
Brattleboro Citizen Police Communications Committee Meeting Agenda
The Brattleboro Citizen Police Communications Committee (CPCC) will meet on Monday, September 28, 2020, at 5:30pm by Zoom (with no physical location due to the ongoing social distancing requirements of COVID-19). The attached agenda contains information about how to access the meeting remotely.
WSESD Social Justice Committee Agenda and Minutes
NOTICE OF MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Social Justice Committee will meet remotely at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, September 28, 2020 via Zoom:
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BBQ Chicken Dinner at the VFW Sunday Oct. 11th. Please Call to Reserve Your Meal.
The Brattleboro VFW located at 40 Black Mountain Road will be having a chicken BBQ on Sunday, October 11th. For $12, you get 1/2 a BBQ chicken, homemade baked beans, coleslaw and corn bread. Drive thru to-go’s, or dine in. Starting at 11 am until gone. Please call 802-257-0438 to reserve yours today. Social distancing and mask wearing while inside.
Selectboard Special Meeting Notes – Committee Interviews and Human Services Increases
The Brattleboro Selectboard held a special meeting to accept the recommendation of Representative Town Meeting and increase the Human Services budget, giving every applying organization extra money.
They spent the bulk of the meeting interviewing prospective candidates for the Community Safety Review Committee, then voting on them. The Committee is now formed.
Why Are 3 Candidates for Secretary of State Clearly Unhappy with the Incumbent?
Candidates are lined up on the voting ballot to compete for Vermont Secretary of State:
Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Human Services Review Funding Committee Meeting Agenda
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Human Services Review Funding Committee will meet on Friday, September 25, 2020, at 1:00pm by GoToMeeting (with no physical location due to the ongoing social distancing requirements of COVID-19). The attached agenda contains information about how to access the meeting remotely.
WSESD Programmatic and Performance Equity Committee Meeting Agenda
NOTICE OF MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Programmatic and Performance Equity Committee will meet remotely at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 via Zoom:
Bear or Bull Market? Your Vote for State Treasurer May Keep Vermont In Debt with Unfunded Liabilites!
Do we need to vote for a new Treasurer for the State of Vermont? Is the current State Treasurer actually admitting she’s having a hard time? Is ten years of her control over our taxpayer dollars enough?
If you always vote with your political party line, if they have you like a fish, hook-line-and sinker, then don’t cry when the sinker
takes you down.
Here are the candidates running for the office of State Treasurer on the statewide ballot for the Nov. 3, 2020 election. Voting has begun.
Brattleboro Finance Director Probationary Period “Not Successfully Complete”
The Town of Brattleboro just sent out this announcement:
“Brattleboro Town Manager Peter Elwell has announced that Finance Director Andre Jaeger did not successfully complete his probationary period and is no longer employed by the Town of Brattleboro. Elwell said the Town will contract with the accounting/auditing firm of Melanson Heath to provide interim finance director services, just as during January-May of 2020 after the retirement of former Finance Director John O’Connor.”
I can’t recall another hire not successfully completing their probationary period…
BCTV Schedules – Week of September 21, 2020
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 9/21/20
Monday, September 21, 2020
4:30 am Slow Living Summit – Finance Farming 6/9/20
6:00 am The Mural – A Film by Matt Kelly – The Mural – A Film by Matt Kelly
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Here We Are – with guest Mike Fitzgerald
9:30 am Community Forum – The Politics of Debt and the Green New Deal 8/31/20
