BRATTLEBORO — I'm OK with nuclear energy, too, with a few caveats.
The government must fully insure against all losses caused by a nuclear plant; the government must guarantee that a closed plant be fully removed in 10 years; the government must guarantee that all spent fuel be removed from a plant site withing the same 10 years as decommissioning, and the government must provide as much economic development funds as it takes to maintain a stable economy with the same period.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
WESTMINSTER-Harley Sterling, director of the Windham Northeast food program, which runs during the school year from the end of August to the beginning of June and provides breakfast and lunch to students, always aims to "push the limits of what's possible." Sterling, with his team of 12 cooks, do the best from-scratch cooking they can with local ingredients at a time for the six schools in WNESU - elementary schools in Westminster, Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, and Athens; Bellows Falls...
Emily Peyton's demand for Rep. Mike Mrowicki's resignation is a textbook example of using emotional rhetoric when you have nothing substantial to say. To read Peyton's letter is to leave the reader wondering what Mrowicki's act of hatred was - it offers you no clue. Even when you slog through her repeated accusations of hatred and protestations of love, you will arrive at the end still trying to identify her precise point. To borrow a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Peyton's...
U.S. actor and comedian David Koechner brings his brand of stand-up comedy to the Bellows Falls Opera House on Sunday, Nov. 12. "It's a power-packed 90 minutes," says Koechner, 61, on a recent afternoon phone call from his home in Los Angeles. This is Koechner's first show back in Vermont since 2015, when he played the role of Pete Parker in the short film The Parker Tribe. The semiautobiographical film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was written and...
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