Feb 17-23, 2010
What You Should Know About Vermont’s Nuclear Power Plant; Shumlin Calls for a Vote on Vermont Yankee; Longtime B-Town Restaurant Comes Around Again.
Save the Seals — Boycott Maple Syrup
There’s nothing I love more than celebrities lending their names to wackadoodle things. OK, I do love some things more than that. Like mashed potatoes…
From UVM Baseball to VT Yankee: The Doyle Town Meeting Survey
It’s an annual ritual: A Town Meeting Day survey of voters conducted by State Sen. William Doyle (R-Washington) on some of the hot topics facing…
Leahy to Hold Hearing on Bush-era ‘Torture’ Memos
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Friday to delve into the recent report issued by the Department of Justice regarding the so-called “torture…
Even More Bad News for Vermont’s Bat Population
It appears that white-nose syndrome (WNS), which has already decimated Vermont’s bat population and has killed off tens of thousands of bats in New England,…
Benefit Concert Saturday in Honor of Guen Gifford
Last fall, I wrote a blog post about Burlington lawyer and activist Guen Gifford (pictured) who was killed in a paragliding accident on November 1….
Senate Committee Approves Vermont Yankee Bill
The Senate Finance Committee late yesterday unanimously agreed to send a bill regarding Vermont Yankee’s relicensure to the full Senate. The committee voted 7-0, without…
Are Legislators Cheating the System? The Debate Rages On…
Seven Days’ recent story on Vermont legislators’ liberal use of allowances for meals, mileage and hotels is getting tons of feedback — a lot of…
Whistleblower Claims Past Vermont Yankee Leaks Went Unreported
The current tritium leak at Vermont Yankee is not the first such leak, according to an anonymous individual claiming to be a Vermont Yankee employee….
See Rutland Get Destroyed
Sundance, Shmundance. This coming weekend, Rutland’s Paramount Theatre offers a film festival where you won’t have to dodge paparazzi or pretend to care about the…
Gundersens Step Into the Nuclear Crosshairs
It was bound to happen. Now that industry-insiders-turned-nuclear-watchdogs Arnie and Maggie Gundersen have taken center stage in the legislative showdown over whether Vermont Yankee gets…
The 20/20 Challenge: Cochran’s Ski Area (Week #10)
One Snowboarder’s Quest to Hit 20 Vermont Resorts in 20 Weeks
Letters to the Editor
TA Story Failed [Re: “UVM’s Recession Strategy? Bigger Classes and More Undergrad Teaching Assistants,” February 10]: As the professor of the political science course alluded…
The 20/20 Challenge: Bolton Valley (Week #10)
One Snowboarder’s Quest to Hit 20 Vermont Resorts in 20 Weeks
Joshua Panda, What We Have Sewn
(Self-released, CD) Joshua Panda is one offbeat dude. From his cutesy ursine sobriquet to his disheveled but classic sense of style — typically involving suspenders,…
Power to the People?
The commissioner of public service reacts to charges of coziness with Vermont Yankee
The Insiders
Nuclear industry experts Arnie and Maggie Gundersen predicted the problems at Vermont Yankee
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Police said Raul Gaucin-Valenzuela, 33, and a friend broke into a home in Evans, Colo., intending to beat up the friend’s ex-wife’s…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for February 17 – 24, 2010. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): I personally don’t…
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Art Review: Cynthia Beth Rubin, “Memories and Wanderings” and “Layered Histories”; Lia Rothstein, “Auschwitz-Birkenau 2009,”; both at Photostop, White River Junction. Through March 6.
As the Planet Turns
For nearly three decades, an iconic eatery has changed with Burlington
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Winter is a Drag Ball XV [SIV164]
2/13/10: The XV Annual Winter is a Drag Ball presentedby The House of LeMay sold out Higher Ground Saturday night. After a long winter, folks…
Public Service Board Denies Burlington Telecom Access to City Cash
In an eight-page ruling, the Vermont Public Service Board late Tuesday denied Burlington Telecom’s request to dip into the city’s so-called “cash pool” to make…
Superchef
Fresh from a national competition, Michael Clauss buckles down to his task of transforming The Daily Planet
Best Bites: Main Street Grill & Bar
118 Main Street, Montpelier 223-3188 When I think NECI, I tend to think great, locally influenced comfort food. That began to change this weekend, when…
