by Alan Bisbort | Oct 8, 2009 | News
In 2005, the various commissions in the town of Middlebury, Conn., approved a development called Ridgewood. This massive project was slated to add 326 "well-appointed and spacious luxury residences" on 314 acres, a nine-hole private golf course, private...
by Stephanie Kraft | Oct 15, 2009 | News
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont had his own reaction to the scandal that led Congress to defund ACORN, the multi-state anti-poverty and voting rights organization. Freelance videos recently purported to show ACORN employees giving advice on how to evade taxes and run...
by Our Readers | Oct 15, 2009 | News
Nukes, Weapons Linked It is an honor to have a U.S. president awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It has occurred rarely in history. It is important to remember in the discussion of the control or abolition of nuclear weapons, though, that nuclear plants play a critical...
by Stephanie Kraft | Oct 15, 2009 | News
Well-watered farmland and forest like the Valley's is becoming rarer and rarer in the U.S. and the world. Developers and even governments—China's is one example—are buying agricultural land in other countries—a practice which, if not...
by Maureen Turner | Oct 15, 2009 | News
In 1981, Dick Evans, a Northampton attorney and long-time advocate for drug law reform, drafted a marijuana legalization bill "just to see what one would look like," he said.Evans got the bill before the state Legislature via the right to petition, a law...
