HARTLAND The Selectboard has no plans to hold another public vote on the $1.5 million project to reconfigure the Hartland Three Corners intersection despite public requests at Tuesday night’s Selectboard meeting to do so over cost concerns.A public.
By promising the public a seat in the room when decisions are made, Vermont’s open meeting law is supposed to keep elected officials from doing whatever they want, whenever they want.But anyone who believes the law is worth the paper it was written on.
The Atlantic
America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses
The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.
This article was published online on April 5, 2021.
When David Dorado Romo was a boy growing up in El Paso, Texas, his great-aunt Adela told him about the day the U.S. Border Patrol melted her favorite shoes. Romo’s aunt was Mexican and had a visa that allowed her to commute into South Texas for her job as a maid. Every week she had to report to a Border Patrol station, in accordance with a program that ran from 1917 into the 1930s requiring most Mexican immigrants to bathe in government offices before entering the United States. She would dress up in her nicest clothing, because those who looked dirty or were thought to have lice were bathed in a mixture of kerosene and vinegar. Years later, when Romo visited the National Archives outside Washington, D.C., he found photos and records