by Tom Vannah | Mar 18, 2011 | News
In the end, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation chose to remove from its website an executive summary of public input to its “Future Forest Visioning Process.” Activists who have criticized DCR’s plan to continue and expand commercial...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 18, 2011 | News
The robosigning division of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has put its imprimatur on the relicensing application for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant near Brattleboro, Vt. Relicensing approvals seem automatic at the NRC, which with the Vermont Yankee decision...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 18, 2011 | News
Let’s open a window onto the Beltway battle over the offshoring of high-tech jobs that’s contributed to high unemployment in the U.S. As people, you have to love those cool, competent, charming and hardworking kids, many from Asia, who come to the U.S....
by Our Readers | Apr 5, 2011 | News
GE Aviation on the Joint Strike Fighter Stephanie Kraft’s recent column mischaracterizes the GE/Rolls-Royce engine program for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as one with only parochial benefits (“Saner than Boehner,” March 10, 2011). In fact, the...
by Maureen Turner | Apr 7, 2011 | News
With the Supreme Court last week wrapping up three days of oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, now begins the long wait for the decision. While the justices were to take a first vote on the case last Friday, their decision won’t...