by Cherchez La Femme | Jan 22, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme
"The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works…"-Barack Obama, 2009 inaugural address Jezebel.com compiled a montage of Fox News' coverage of the inauguration. It's pretty fascinating. (I...
by Becca Liss | Jan 22, 2009 | Stage
In a country as big as the United States, the concept of nationalism can sometimes seem enormous, so it might be easier to resort to statism. Of course, the realities of being a Vermonter or a Bay Stater or a New Yorker are always far more complex than a pithy...
by Tom Vannah | Jan 22, 2009 | News
I've voted for State Rep. Stephen Kulik of Worthington every time he's come up for re-election in the last decade. As one of his constituents—Kulik represents the rural 1st Franklin District, as well as a number of rural communities in Hampshire...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 22, 2009 | News
Horrifying pictures of a collapsed cooling tower at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in August, 2007 fueled long-standing controversy about whether the 36-year-old plant, located near the borders of Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, is safe. Residents of...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 22, 2009 | News
A new, not widely publicized report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has interesting things to say about what we spend for our nuclear weapons program and how we spend it. Since the financials on our atomic stockpile aren't kept in a single...