by Valley Editorial | Sep 12, 2007 | News
Last week the Advocate published this photo of the cooling tower at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt. after it partially caved in August 21. The disintegration of the tower was followed August 30 by an automatic shutdown that took plant technicians...
by Valley Editorial | Sep 12, 2007 | News
The Bush administration has proposed new rules that sanction the ongoing destruction of the landscapes of Appalachia and other coal-rich parts of the country. Rather than reining in the devastation, the rules, presented as “clarifications” of the Surface...
by Alan Bisbort | Sep 13, 2007 | News
For a century that began with such promise—with widespread talk of "bridges" and "a new millennium"—things sure deteriorated in a hurry, didn't they?In 1999 the U.S. was prosperous, not involved, at least not neck-deep, in foreign...
by From our readers... | Sep 13, 2007 | News
Kucinich "Right On"I resonated fully with Pat Turner's letter ("What's Next?", Aug. 30, 2007), lamenting that only one of over two dozen presidential hopefuls is pursuing impeachment proceedings to hold the current administration...
by Natalia Muñoz | Sep 13, 2007 | News
Typically, considering his disregard for truth, former (finally!) Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned on Aug. 27 with a speech seeking to prove how far he's come in life, saying that even his worst days were better than his father's best days. His...
