Of paleontology and excellence in Vermont architecture
Vermont has long had distinctive architecture, in contrast to New Hampshire where the closest thing to cutting-edge design would be a bas relief by Augustus Saint Gaudens (who died in 1907, though you can still visit his place in Cornish).
Personal essay: A contrarian view of the Tunbridge World’s Fair
The point here is not to idealize the 1939 New York fair.The point is that a forward-looking orientation is an infinitely more satisfying, inspiring and, frankly, honest source of pleasure than the false nostalgia served up every September in Tunbridge.
Want a liquor license? Take our virtual polygraph test
As someone who is an endemic curmudgeon when it comes to coughing up personal information just because someone demands it, I got to wondering why the DLC could possibly care about illegal left turns.
Renewable power in Vermont hits a SPEED bump
Vermont’s new green energy bill could be preempted by federal law because electricity from renewables could be higher than conventional sources.
Vermont Yankee and the perils of PowerPoint postscript
Vermont Yankee insists that its employees did not intentionally spread falsehoods. But this episode throws into sharp relief a potentially more disturbing reality about the regulation of nuclear plants.
The perils of PowerPoint at Vermont Yankee
Morgan Lewis found Vermont Yankee not guilty – concluding, in essence, that employees of the plant did indeed mislead officials about those pipes but not on purpose.
Vermont Yankee’s Earth Day gift sets a troubling precedent
Entergy at least implied it would release the whole report, but only if the Public Service Board let them reserve the right to hide the underlying documents.
Vermont architecture: The get-lost effect gets recognized
What’s modest about a house that, with its adjoining and newly built barn, has almost 10,000 square feet of space and occupies a 210-acre parcel of land?
Exempt your state university and its donors from open-records laws? Here’s what you get
Eugene should be a mandatory field trip for Vt. lawmakers voting on a bill that would exempt UVM records from Vermont’s public records statute.
