by Valley Editorial | Sep 5, 2007 | News
This picture was taken by an anonymous photographer on or after August 21, when this cooling tower at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant near Brattleboro collapsed, spewing water that was supposed to cool the plant’s reactor.Days later, on Friday, August 30,...
by Valley Editorial | Sep 6, 2007 | News
God, it hurt to find out that CNBC’s Erin Burnett has a degree in political economy from Williams College. It hurt because not long ago Burnett showed such abysmal naivete about the economy—about the evolution of American manufacturing in relation to...
by Maureen Turner | Sep 6, 2007 | News
After five years and more than $26 million—and despite countless protests and petition signatures—the new women's jail in Chicopee officially opens for business this month.The minimum- and medium-security facility will house more than 200 women from...
by Norman Solomon | Sep 6, 2007 | News
The U.S.A.'s military spending is now close to $2 billion a day. The country is beginning its seventh year of continuous war, with no end in sight. On the horizon is the very real threat of a massive air assault on Iran. Few in Congress seem willing or able to...
by Alan Bisbort | Sep 12, 2007 | News
Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, says that impeachment is not off the table. That's a nice sound-bite, Congressman, almost as nice as Sen. Larry Craig's insistence that he has never had sex with a man. We all know it's a crock,...
