New York state is taking steps to close Indian Point, whose two big reactors are some 35 miles from the city.
According to a recent edition of The Nation, the state has “already challenged federal authority by denying the plant the permit it needs to operate, arguing that the environment is a valid state concern and not pre-empted by federal authority.”
Massachusetts might follow suit with the Pilgrim plant, which has also received relicensing from the NRC.
If this be the case, let's have our legal people talk to their legal people and instruct our Public Service Board to get to it!...
Your “Musical Antidote for a Vermont Winter” [Arts, Jan. 11] proved itself in more ways than one! The New England premiere of Bob Chilcott's Salisbury Vespers at First Baptist was the latest rouser from the Brattleboro Concert Choir, which prides itself on deft performances of choral works that are...
Panelists at last Thursday night's Transportation Cost Forum provided a review of the governor's brand-new Comprehensive Energy Plan, shed renewed light on the fast start of the state Agency of Transportation (AOT) after Tropical Storm Irene, and offered a glimpse of our own livable future. The forum was held...
The opening of a recent New York Times editorial was striking: “The federal debt limit is far too dangerous and unstable for lawmakers to use as a political weapon.” One might ask, “If not that, what?” In the final debt limit vote, our own Senator Leahy sided with senior Democratic leadership in Congress while Senator Sanders and Rep. Welch opposed both the somewhat symbolic cost-cutting and the completely nonexistent revenue enhancement. After the fact, Leahy was among the first to...
Monday, July 4, marked the 45th anniversary of the signing of the federal Freedom of Information Act. This law gives people the right to know what the government is doing, the good and the bad, and to hold the government accountable. State law should follow suit. The League of Women Voters urges everyone to probe, watch, and make sure these regulations and their administrators are, in fact, doing what these laws prescribe. For more detail, please visit the United States...
Members of the Vermont House and Senate are now pushing a questionable tactic to get around the electoral college in presidential votes. The objective is to change the intent of the federal constitution by using the national popular vote as the electing method. The 2000 Gore/Bush outcome is the latest motivator, even though that outcome might have been due more to the Supreme Court denying a Florida recount than to the real actions of Florida voters themselves. That same year,
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It's good to see the road builders at work again on Route 5. Real people doing real work. At a time when jobs are hard to get. And the roads and bridges need attention. Thank you, Uncle Sam, for stimulating our local economy. Soon, trucks will also be digging up Main Street, Brattleboro, because the sewer pipes need replacement (a scheduled project we've known for years). The sad side is that the Main Street trenches could also have held both...