Spend Wisely [Re "Who Cares?" January 11]: Once again, the Democratic Party supermajority in Montpelier has another grand plan that amounts to the same old.
On Jan. 26, Brattleboro was treated to an evening of Windham County s Got Talent. Young contestants got a chance to perform for the judges and the public. One young student, after an investment of time and hard work, was excited to perform Billie Holiday s Strange Fruit. However, less than an hour before the performance, a parent voiced an objection to the song and asked that it not be performed. To their credit, the organizers encouraged the youth to go forward with the performance in spite of this objection. But the parent s poison arrow had hit its mark and gutted the
Holy Hypocrisy [Re "Burlington Allows Parish to Demolish Historic Cathedral," January 11, online; Feedback, January 18]: So the Catholic church, which condoned and covered up.
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