by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 21, 2012 | News
A federal court ruling and NRC decisions in favor of relicensing the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant near Brattleboro have only increased the determination of many in the region to get the 40-year-old plant closed down. That determination, which draws momentum from...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 21, 2012 | News
In 2008, in deciding a case called Boumediene vs. Bush, the Supreme Court ruled that Guantánamo detainees have a constitutional right to challenge the legality of their detention by filing petitions for habeas corpus in American federal courts. In that case and...
by Our Readers | Jun 21, 2012 | News
If Logging Looks Bad, It Is Jeff Lacy criticizes Stephen Kaiser with the pronouncement that “subjective, quasi-religious argument has no place in what should be a scientific critique of Department of Conservation and Recreation’s watershed management...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 21, 2012 | News
Nancy Urbschat isn’t a Springfield native—her family moved to the Valley from Columbus, Ohio, 27 years ago—but she’s embraced her adopted hometown with a fervency that could rival any old-timer’s. Urbschat and her family initially landed...
by Sady Doyle | Jun 21, 2012 | News
Feminism has been around for quite a while now. We’ve gone through at least three waves, countless publications, and more backlashes than you can count. In that time, if we’ve learned anything at all, we’ve learned this: women respond really, really...
