January 6
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Letter to the editor: GOP won’t condemn insurrection as election nears
Almost all of the Republicans presently elected to or running for office know what really happened.
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Community forum: Election fraud lie is still dividing us
We see it every day on social media, where a lie can be shared and spread rapidly, reaching thousands if not millions of people sometimes in a matter…
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Letter to the editor: We must stay on guard to protect our democracy
After six Congressional hearings laying out what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, how could anyone in their right mind not see that this was treason!
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Editorial: On Jan. 6, ‘don’t look down’
It is to be hoped Jan. 6, 2021 will be a date that long resonates in our nation’s history.
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Eric Davis: New book sheds light on Jan. 6
One of the topics being investigated by the U.S. House Committee is the attempt that former President Trump and others close to him made to induce Vice President…
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Letter to the editor: Four-plus years of lies, Capitol assault bring tears
I didn’t know if I should cry, yell, be angry, be sad. I did it all but mainly I just cried. Cried for our country, cried for our…
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Letter to the editor: Coup attempt driven by lies
January 6’s attempted coup was the totally predictable outcome of years of targeted misinformation by an entrenched minority of our population bent on maintaining power by any means…
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D.C. riots prompt local and federal investigations
MIDDLEBURY — As darkness fell on the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, Jan. 6, and a hastily imposed curfew went into effect across Washington, D.C., Middlebury resident David Laferriere-Hall…
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Local police on alert after mayhem at Capitol
VERMONT — In the wake of Tuesday’s announcement by Middlebury College that it would revoke Rudy Giuliani’s 2005 honorary degree, the Middlebury Police Department and the college public…
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Editorial: Will insurrection rid GOP of Trump’s deadly hold?
These past seven days have changed the face, and fate, of our country in ways that are dangerous and troubling, and yet could set the stage for corrective…
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Eric Davis: Jan. 6 attack should be probed
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress passed, and President George W. Bush signed, a bill creating a special commission to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding…
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Letter to the editor: Rioters were un-American
As an American who values the Constitution and swore to defend it, I am appalled! As a patriot who was and is willing to die for this nation,…
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Letter to the editor: Trump and his mob face punishment
Who isn’t disgusted by Trump and his disgusting mob of supporters who attacked and ransacked the Capitol Building in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 6? We need to eject…
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Letter to the editor: Nazi party parallels seen in Jan. 6 assault on Capitol
One hundred years ago, March 1920, several thousand right-wing, self-appointed, thugs marched on Berlin under the direction of Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz. They seized Berlin and…
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Letter to the editor: Capitol storming more dangerous than 9/11
The Jan. 6 Capitol attack has been dubbed terrorism by Republicans and Democrats alike. Now the extent of the damage Trump has done to America is becoming clearer.…
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Letter to the editor: Democracy requires constant stewardship
The terrible events at the Capitol this past week should not come as a surprise, even as shocking as they were. This country has never owned up to…