by Mark Roessler | May 7, 2009 | News
Not having known of Dana Roscoe or the possible eminent success of his lofty rail transit goals, I recently took an overnight journey by train from Amherst to Brattleboro with my four-year-old son. (The heartwarming narrative of our mini-adventure can be found in this...
by Mark Roessler | May 7, 2009 | News
Long before Interstate 91 tore its way through farms, homes and downtowns along the banks of the Connecticut River, providing a multi-lane ribbon of auto traffic between New Haven and northern Vermont, there were thousands of miles of rail, both steam and electric,...
by From Our Readers | May 7, 2009 | News
Art Won't Stop WarI was truly disappointed in "The Emotional Awareness of War" (April 23) because I think it misses a critically important point here. Do we really need more dialogue about the horrors of war from Americans who have participated in them?...
by Eesha Williams | May 7, 2009 | News
On April 29, hundreds of activitsts rallied outside the Vermont statehouse urging the Legislature to vote to close the Yankee Vermont nuclear plant in 2012 rather than allow the company that owns the plant, Entergy Corp. of Louisiana, to extend its life to 2032.This...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 12, 2009 | News
Complaints about high rates of credit card interest, payday loans and other types of predatory lending are usually framed in terms of their effects on the borrower, which are bad enough. But in "Infinite Debt: How unlimited interest rates destroyed the...
