The FAFSA Simplification Act has resulted in the most significant change to how a student’s financial aid eligibility is determined since the implementation of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (Congressional Research Service, 2022). Many of these changes become effective with the 2024-25 award year and include an overhaul of[Read More…]
Editorials
A note to readers
To our readers: Our apologies. Over the past few days, many of our readers have not received their copies of the Eagle Times in a timely manner. We apologize for this. As we seek to improve the paper and make changes, mistakes sometimes happen. We hit a snag with our[Read More…]
How the Super Bowl Could Help
The Super Bowl is one of the best events for bringing people together and uniting to help others. When the Chicago Bears had that dominant team in 1985, they made a charity video titled “The Super Bowl Shuffle.” The video raised money to fight hunger and poverty. This year’s Super[Read More…]
The Dark Day
By Ron Patch THE VERMONT JOURNAL I found an interesting item in an 18th century Boston ledger. All entries are written in ink with quill pen. I have copied it as written including spelling. At this time in New England we were still writing in the Old English style. It[Read More…]
Watch Out for Scam E-Mails
Sadly, junk email and text messages are now parts of everyday life. In a recent email received from a reader they asked, “I’m wondering why I keep getting so much junk mail when I don’t do much on the computer at all – just email a few friends and order[Read More…]
Great Cast Wasted on Dull Story: David O. Russell’s ‘Amsterdam’ Review
Merie Weismiller Wallace/20th Century Studios via AP The stars appear one after the other — a banquet of talent, a glut of inventiveness — and yet nothing clicks. Hollywood’s most famous squirm in a slog. Welcome to “Amsterdam,” writer and director David O. Russell’s answer to the question: Can some[Read More…]
‘Beast’ is a B-Movie with Bite
Sharks, grizzlies, giant snakes and rampaging apes have traditionally been the go-to choices for animal-kingdom antagonists in survival thrillers. Lions not so much. Maybe the king of the jungle has always been too regal, too majestic — too heroic — to be lowered to the status of mere summer-movie marauder.[Read More…]
A Loving Ode to Filipino Culture
Ed Araquel/Universal Pictures via AP boisterous extended clan gathers for a family holiday, launching the requisite arguments, hurt feelings, grudges, inside jokes, laughter, love, reconciliation and lots of eating, plus maybe a car chase. So far, so familiar. What’s different about “Easter Sunday,” a joyful if overly broad family dramedy[Read More…]
Editorial: Sad shift
This is what the Rutland Herald had to say about nationwide dialogue about the state of education in America: A recent commentary by Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times began circulating around school districts around Vermont recently after parents and individuals have become even more riled about schools teaching[Read More…]
Editorial: Talent pool
his is what the Rutland Herald had to say about the 2021 Vermont Book Awards celebration, which will be held at the end of the month: There is a running joke that you can’t throw a rock without hitting a writer in Vermont. We are, as a state, blessed to[Read More…]