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When you sit down with a loan officer to fill out a mortgage application—maybe you’re buying a home; maybe you’re refinancing your mortgage, taking advantage of today’s historically low interest rates—you learn soon enough that loan...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Save Arctic From Spills I have been watching with horror as one of the worst oil spills in American history continues unabated, and millions of gallons of crude oil now threaten our nation’s vital Gulf Coast ecosystem. This latest national environmental crisis...

Face to the Wind

Even as Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, Green Mountain Power and Central Vermont Public Service Company, put off signing a contract for electricity from the troubled Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, they are arranging to buy power from a...

Rooke Stands His Ground

It appears safe to say that City Councilor Tim Rooke has not been intimidated into silence by the recent harsh words leveled at him by Mayor Domenic Sarno. Last week, Sarno issued a press release chastising Rooke for his ongoing criticism of the plan to move the...

ImperiumWatch: Slick and Sleazy

One of the sleazy things about oil spills like the current British Petroleum mess in the Gulf of Mexico is that they’re front-loaded and back-loaded with our money. It’s what we pay that makes oil a profitable business, and, until Congress changes the laws...