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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...

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...

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...

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...

March 24, 2009 marks the 20th memorial of North America's worst ever oil spill. Approximately 11 to 38 million gallons of crude oil from the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled into the pristine waters of Prince William Sound destroying a...

I've been following the Rihanna/Chris Brown story and aside from the Hollywood glam that's been dominated the coverage, I wrote this piece after reading this Alternet article for the third time .... "I'm sick and tired of hearing the same...