All mining uses equipment often powered by petroleum-fuel machinery. Mining uranium requires disturbing one-millionth the earth of mining coal for similar energy production.
Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
Dan Yates, president and CEO of Brattleboro Savings and Loan, serves as a member of the Taxation and Regulation Subcommittee of the state's Marijuana Commission, which is looking into legalizing marijuana in Vermont. I find it fascinating. When we talk about legalizing marijuana - and it does look like the state is moving in that direction - we pay attention to very important things like impairment and prevention and regulation. But for Yates, who is heading up a bank, he...
Landmark College presents an evening of comedy with You Can't Take It With You, a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. The play will be performed at the Greenhoe Theater at Landmark College on Friday, April 17, and Saturday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. The theater is located in the Fine Arts Building on the Landmark College campus, at 19 River Road South. Admission is free, and the public is welcome. The play takes place in...
During the Civil War of the 1860s, our country mobilized its entire society and economy to wage an epic struggle in which 620,000 people died. During the Great Depression, with the New Deal and Square Deal, the Roosevelt administration wrestled with the economic meltdown, thus initiating a new era of government interventionism to address a national emergency. During the 1940s, the United States and its allies confronted fascism in Europe and in the Pacific. While on a wartime footing, the...
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