Opposition to Vermont Yankee is more like a religion than a war.
Meg Mott, Ph.D. is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself...
Ross Momaney (rmm-art.com) is a visual artist and arts educator. By blending these roles, he...
Michelle Bos-Lun and Richard Nelson are state representatives who sit across the table from each...
Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and...
The Windham Northeast Supervisory Union Board's budget subcommittee unanimously agreed to remove the Westminster West School from the proposed fiscal year 2015 budget. At an Oct. 7 meeting, the three-person subcommittee discussed student population and staffing projections. “It became clear the population of the school would be so small that it would be impractical to operate it and do it right,” says committee member Dan Axtell. Although the WNESU board has taken no formal action, as three of the five...
There is a wealth of information, evidential or otherwise, that - based on the destruction of the World Trade Center towers alone - demands that the Office of the Independent Counsel be empowered to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate all government and non-government forensic crime data related to Towers 1, 2, and 7. The focus of such an investigation should be targeted to the intra and extra crime field analysis around those towers. What happened to the towers on...
In 2008, Alan Dater and Lisa Merton released their award-winning film Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, which tells the story of the Kenyan activist who started the Green Belt Movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work. Implied in the prize committee's honoring of Maathai is the acknowledgement that environmental issues can have far-reaching effects for societies and the planet. Merton says that experience showed her and Dater that environmental rights, economic justice, human rights, and...
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