All mining uses equipment often powered by petroleum-fuel machinery. Mining uranium requires disturbing one-millionth the earth of mining coal for similar energy production.
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
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By mid-January, deputies with the Windham County Sheriff's Department will have body cameras installed on their uniforms. These audio and video devices record interactions between the deputies and civilians during official activity. “We think it's going to be very beneficial to my office and to the public,” Sheriff Keith Clark said at the Dec. 7 regular Selectboard meeting. “It brings us up to 21st century policing. It also becomes a training tool” for supervisors to review with deputies where their...
Scapegoating is a tactic used in small and large systems - families, communities, nations - to place all of the blame for a problem onto one person or group of people. It's used by those in power to avoid accountability or prevent a more nuanced analysis of a difficult situation, or both. The scapegoat is almost always a person with less power, or no power at all, because it's easy to pick on someone who is already down. They're less...
To honor the 50th anniversary of the release of the Grateful Dead's album Europe '72, Bearly Dead of Boston will perform the work in its entirety at Historic Memorial Hall on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. “The band's upbeat tempo and deep jams will keep you moving,” says Joe Levy, booking manager of Historic Memorial Hall. “We decided to play the entire album since it was 50 years to the day since it was released,” Bearly Dead guitarist Nick...
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