One compromised spent-fuel canister could deliver an 1850 msv dose of radiation to the population within 1 mile.
I really don't think it's a good idea to be moving this stuff around too much.
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. BRATTLEBORO-To the Brattleboro...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their...
If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? In southern Vermont, a more important question would be: Does it cause a power outage? Just think about the biggest weather events that hit southern Vermont this year - the March storm that left up to 4 feet of heavy wet snow in some towns and the massive rainstorm in July that delivered a month's worth of rain in a day and caused serious flash flooding. In between...
I was stunned and appalled to read Malaika Puffer's Viewpoint about the proposed facility that would result in psychiatric incarceration. I have long written about the flaws in psychiatric practice. I also had the unhappy opportunity to witness cruel and inappropriate psychiatric hospital practices when my mother suffered severe episodes of depression and spent long months locked up, dragged into electroconvulsive therapy chambers, and overmedicated against her will in the days of Draconian treatments from which she never recovered. There...
When Dartmouth College bandleader Don Glasgo was looking for an appropriate guest artist for his Barbary Coast Big Band, he came across an online video for the Gregorio Uribe Big Band. Though Uribe's Afro-Cuban funk ensemble was smaller than Glasgo's band, Glasgo found the Columbian band leader's music “unique, energetic, and inspiring” - and he couldn't stop thinking about him. After looking far and wide, Glasgo settled on Gregorio Uribe and, now that he's worked with the Latin American musician...
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