Images of Tyler Brown, the Cambridge, MA shooter this week, clearly show that he is using a short-barrled AR-15 variant with a "pistol brace".

I will reiterate my position that this is not a handgun, it is a short-barreled rifle, and such weapons ought to be banned for the purposes of ordinary self defense in populated areas. These devices exist solely to circumvent the public safety protections of the National Firearms Act of 1934.

Obviously, Brown does not care to follow the law, regardless.

' In this age of grasping for revenue in the news business, we have “advertorial” becoming “sponsored content” and now, apparently, “content revenue.”

So I gather from a recent Brattleboro Reformer story about the hiring of longtime radio personality—and Brattleboro Selecboard member—Peter “Fish” Case as “director of content revenue” for the paper’s parent company Vermont News & Media — the outfit owned by not-at-all-fishy Belarusian currency trader Paul Belogour. '

http://thevpo.org/2026/05/12/the-reformer-steps-into-an-ethical-quagmire/

LRT: As a member of my municipal #government, I wholeheartedly endorse this message.

Municipal government is difficult and thankless work, made all the more difficult and thankless by people who demand their desires be fulfilled without regard to the impact the fulfillment of their desires would have on others in their community.

Everyone has an opinion, but Governing is a profession, not a lark. Good governance requires intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, curiosity, patience, and compassion.