All mining uses equipment often powered by petroleum-fuel machinery. Mining uranium requires disturbing one-millionth the earth of mining coal for similar energy production.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Windham County sheriff's deputies are now armed with cameras. Sheriff Keith Clark said he has recently begun issuing body cameras to his deputies after a months-long bidding, review, and purchasing process. Only half of the office's 30 cameras have arrived. But Clark said he is eager to put them to use as a tool to boost “public trust” and to improve police work. “It fulfills a lot of needs in this day and age,” Clark said. The Newfane-based sheriff's department,
Main Street Arts Artistic Director David Stern realizes that though his company presents great theater, it is hardly the only game in town. Literally dozens of theater companies in Southern Vermont and the adjacent New Hampshire counties across the river - some longstanding and others new to the region, some professional and others performed by dedicated community members - are diligently working to put on quality performances and finding audiences to support them. Yet with so much competition, how can...
The current system of an elected Selectboard comprised of five town residents, a professional town manager who runs daily municipal operations, and Representative Town Meeting provides for a great deal of public involvement and professionalism. Why change that? Our town manager is doing a wonderful job! What happens to him with a mayor? A mayoral system creates more executive power. Why would this be good for Brattleboro? A mayor who would also be expected to run the town would make...
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