DUMMERSTON — RE: The premature and shortsighted closing of Vermont Yankee:
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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It is not productive to have a public forum where people get to attack and act inappropriately, so I can only say that Curtiss Reed Jr. did the right thing in shutting it down. That there are people out there who express their racism by denying its existence or relevance is the crux of a problem we face in Vermont. In a workshop I was giving, I had one woman say, “Just by talking about race we are being racist.”
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