by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 26, 2012 | News
The state of Vermont has lost a court fight to force Entergy, the owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant near Brattleboro, to close the plant this March, when its 40-year license expires (the reactor has been in operation since 1972). The state had sued to...
by Our Readers | Jan 26, 2012 | News
A “Shut It Down” Birthday Celebration January 18 was a chilly and blustery day, although sunny. Along with 13 other women in the Shut It Down Affinity Group from Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, dressed all in black and wearing white death masks,...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 26, 2012 | News
In a time when social and economic mobility in the U.S. are not what they used to be—for some time now, studies have shown that Americans are less likely than Canadians or Europeans to better their personal finances by as much as their parents...
by Tom Vannah | Jan 26, 2012 | News
As the saying goes, you can’t fight city hall. In Northampton, that old adage took on special meaning recently when the city’s new mayor attempted to hire a new city solicitor. The lawyer Northampton mayor David Narkewicz wanted came highly recommended,...
by Our Readers | Jan 26, 2012 | News
Follow the Money On Jan. 21, the nation marks the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a decision that enabled corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence federal...
