Brattleboro Politics News

Vt.— Vermont sugarmakers say their industry's enjoying good times in general, but there are still some worries: Insects. About 20 maple sugar producers meeting at the Windham County Sugarmakers annual meeting Thursday said last year was one of the strongest...

How progressive is Barack Obama? It’s a question pundits, bloggers, and journalists have trouble grappling with. But one individual goes beyond the Obama phenomenon and investigates who Obama is and what he’s all about. In Barack Obama and the Future...

Vt.— A nuclear waste storage issue at Vermont Yankee is closer to being settled. Vermont Yankee owner Entergy and the state's Department of Public Service have agreed how to resolve Entergy's failure to monitor dry casks that store nuclear waste...

Crossposted at Huffington Post. "Mission compromised" may best describe U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan. According to journalists Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald, American foreign policy and military officials are making several costly miscalculations of Afghanistan's politics,...

As I surf the Internet and visit my favorite blogs, I read that many people are saying “why didn’t Barack Obama say this” or “why didn’t Obama say that?” Many prominent Mideast experts and bloggers are expressing disappointment in Obama....

"I'm more afraid of men [in my unit] that I am with the enemy." Those were the words that Helen Benedict heard from several female soldiers. The enemy was within. Since March of 2003, more than 160,500 women have served...

Jack Shaheen, a sort of one-man anti-defamation league, is the author of the groundbreaking work " Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, " which is also the subject of a documentary film . A former CBS News consultant...