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Voices

Loved the essay

By
Judy Tharp
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 — Issue 146

PUTNEY — I absolutely loved Robin MacArthur's story about mud season, cheerfully slowing down, Tropical Storm Irene, three generations, and their love of life here in New England [“Without wheels,” Voices, March 21].

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

Vermont Yankee trust-fund tax scrutinized

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 — Issue 360

There has been much debate about how Vermont Yankee administrators are using the plant's decommissioning trust fund. As it turns out, the federal government has been taking its share of that same pot of money. In response to an information request from the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (VNDCAP), Entergy administrators have disclosed that they paid $34 million in federal trust fund taxes over a 10-year period. Those tax payments - the result of a 20 percent federal levy...

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Voices

World of disbelief

By
Jim Freedman
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 — Issue 593

What do climate-change deniers, election deniers, anti-vaxxers, and COVID-19 deniers have in common besides an unexplainable attraction to a world of disbelief? What personal benefit is gained from staring directly at the facts in front of you and yet acting as if the facts were false? A fact is something either known or proven to be true. Furthermore, a scientific fact is an objective and verifiable observation. On the other hand, an opinion is defined as a view or judgment...

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Arts

Simba welcomes winter solstice with dance party

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 — Issue 284

On Sunday, Dec. 21, Simba continues its 25th year of playing together by celebrating the winter solstice. The annual music and dance party takes place at 7 p.m. at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center. Join the band and your friends and neighbors in dance to light up the year's longest night. The band started by playing a 1989 benefit on the Brattleboro Common to shut down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant; they called themselves the No Nukes Band.

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