From Bob Herbert’s Letters From Vermont: “The letters to Senator Sanders offer a glimpse into the real lives of ordinary people in an economic environment that was sculpted to favor the very rich. One of the letters was from a woman in central Vermont who said she and her husband are in their mid-30s, are [...]
From Alternet’s Vermont Secessionists Meet with Racist League of the South: “The image of SVR as a quixotic band of idealistic Vermontophiles fighting for an independent Green Mountain State has taken a public beating since 2006, when Naylor and Sale began openly working with the League of the South and other neo-Confederates. But the fact [...]
From the Rutland Herald’s From bad to verse: “After more than two dozen young people trashed a former residence of poet Robert Frost during a drinking party, the dilemma was how to punish them. A jail term might be too harsh, community service too easy. So a prosecutor decided on some poetic justice instead — [...]
The state of Vermont has an anti-billboard law. We’re one of four states in the country to have such a law. It’s been around for 40 years, and as you might imagine, it passed under some controversy. Businesses wanted to advertise. Farmers wanted to lease their land to those advertisers. But a Republican — a [...]
Some of you may remember that, up here in the Poultney village, we like to do a little thing called a cook off. It’s basically Iron Chef style rules, where there’s one main ingredient/kind-of-food and the rest is up to the chefs. We’ve been doing this thing for…jeez…two and a half years, I guess. It [...]
From Rutland Herald’s The bills that made it addressed these issues…: “There were no votes this year on a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, but a legislatively-backed commission unveiled a report that all but endorsed beginning that discussion under the Golden Dome soon. While the commission did not make a formal recommendation, its report features a [...]
From Rutland Herald’s Lawmakers approve sales tax holiday: “The sales tax holiday weekend [in Vermont] is on July 12-13, with a longer period without sales tax on energy- efficient appliances over the following days. The plan is expected to cost more than $2 million in decreased state revenue, which will be paid for by dipping [...]
From Vermont Commons’s If Only I Were King Of Vermont: “Vermont needs to become energy and food independent. We have plenty of wind, solar, biomass, and hydro-power resource-potential to meet our needs. We have plenty of agricultural and water resources. We have plenty of smart and motivated people. What’s missing? The problem is that most [...]
April 29, 2008 – 12:17 pm
So, I was reading an article on Alternet this morning entitled, “We Must Imagine a Life Without Oil.” It’s basically a warning about peak oil, but near the end, the author, Mark Hertsgaard, writes:
Activists in scores of towns and cities around the world are trying to prepare their communities for the transition to a post-oil [...]
April 16, 2008 – 11:35 am
From the Rutland Herald’s New Rutland restaurant, Table 24, aims for June openinge: “Rutland native Stephen Sawyer thinks he knows just what the downtown needs — upscale comfort food at a reasonable price in a cozy atmosphere. With that concept in mind, Table 24 will open in early June in the spot once occupied by [...]
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