Nicholas Boke is a freelance writer and international educational consultant. CHESTER-Vermont GOP Chair Paul Dame...
Nancy Braus , a retired independent bookseller, is a longtime activist. GUILFORD-Vermont Yankee, a nuclear...
Also signing this letter were Ellen Martyn, Sara Longsmith, Emilie Kornheiser, Elizabeth Tannenbaum, Peter Fallon,
BRATTLEBORO-Like many of you, I have been outraged by the actions of the Trump administration,
The discussion about the tritium leaks at Vermont Yankee is about to change. A recent ruling by Vermont Environmental Court Judge Meredith Wright, denying a waste disposal certificate for Omya Inc.'s calcium carbonate processing facility in Florence, sets a clear precedent for the protection of groundwater, say proponents. “The court's ruling supports our contention that Vermont Yankee's continued contamination of groundwater violates the public trust,” said Elizabeth Courtney, executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC). “The ruling also...
New-grass and local contemporary folk trio, The Stockwell Brothers, perform at the next session of the Summer Sunday Socials Series at the Rockingham Meeting House, Sunday, Sept. 8, at 2 p.m. Vermont Festivals producer Ray Massucco said in the event announcement that putting the three in the Rockingham Meeting House was nothing less than a stroke of genius. (And it was his own idea, it turns out.) “The unplugged set means we're going to hear a lot more mandolin from...
People who don't think it's a big deal that corporations have been elevated to the status of a person fail to appreciate history. All the founding fathers, and the country as a whole, were very suspicious of corporations and strictly controlled them. They fail to appreciate the economic power of corporations (many have the wealth of mid-sized nations), and they fail to appreciate the simple fact that corporations are legally bound to further the interests only of their shareholders -
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