by Stephanie Kraft | Jun 4, 2009 | News
Maybe it was growing up in a windswept coastal town in Florida. Maybe it was being born an Aquarian. Whatever made me this way, I love water. Not just swimming, which I do in a rather lazy, not particularly athletic way, but being in water, feeling it swirl around and...
by Alan Bisbort | Jun 4, 2009 | News
Sonia Sotomayor saved baseball. So we were reminded last week after she was nominated to the Supreme Court. Before the 1995 baseball season began—the year after the players' strike—Judge Sotomayor issued a temporary injunction to get the season...
by Tom Vannah | Jun 4, 2009 | News
I am not a religious person, never have been. My lapsed Catholic mom and my atheist dad agreed to have me baptized a Catholic, but I don't remember going to mass except on Christmas Eve. When I was about seven, mom briefly joined an Episcopalian church, where I...
by Rory O'Connor | Jun 4, 2009 | News
Garrison Keillor claims to be a liberal. He—and we—should know better. Keillor has just joined the already large and ever-growing list of allegedly liberal media figures who either advocate or apologize for torture. In a recent column, the National Public...
by Eesha Williams | Jun 9, 2009 | News
Vermont Governor Jim Douglas on May 22 vetoed a bill that would have required Entergy Corporation of Louisiana to pay for decommissioning the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.James Moore of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) told the Rutland Herald...
