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We also have a nuclear waste dump at San Onofre

By
Roger Johnson
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 — Issue 314

The good folks in Vermont should be studying what we have been going through for several years after the decommissioning of San Onofre. Check out SanOnofreSafety.org.

We did a poll, and 92 percent favored naming it the Darrell Issa Nuclear Waste Dump. We are supposed to be one of the six nuclear power plants in the country that the National Academy of Sciences wants to study for cancer streaks. But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has held up the funding for the study. Apparently, they are afraid of what it might reveal for residents who live within 31 miles.

What are you doing now that you have also become a nuclear waste dump?

Voices

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

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Brattleboro eyes new site for skatepark

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 — Issue 270

Potholes, U-turns, and roadblocks have littered the road to finding a location for a town skateboard park. But the road may have finally reached the destination on Tuesday night, as the Selectboard unanimously approved a site in the lower northeastern corner of Living Memorial Park. The board also approved asking Representative Town Meeting for $20,000 toward the project. Jeffrey Clark, chair of the Brattleboro Area Skatepark is Coming (BASIC) committee, said the Theresa Brungardt Senior Area was the committee's top...

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Voices

Lack of cell service: from merely annoying to downright dangerous

By
Betsy Cox
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 — Issue 500

I read with great interest Deborah Luskin's commentary about the woeful lack of high-speed internet and reliable cell service in our state. We want to lure out of state workers with a cash incentive, only to offer them an electronic version of the old Vermont saying “You can't get there from here.” I suppose they could gaze out the window and admire the natural beauty of our state while waiting for slow connections to work. That might be pleasant to...

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‘Making peace with oddity’

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 — Issue 283

Some of the more interesting work in the area's arts venues is being shown through Dec. 10 at the Crowell Gallery at Moore Free Library. Nan Heminway and Marilyn Allen, who first met at the River Gallery School many years ago, teamed up for this exhibit after discovering that their approach to art, the underlying intuitive themes that “got them going,” had a lot in common. This is not all that apparent on entering the gallery. Nothing would seem more...

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