The most intense interview of my life. That is how I would describe the thirteen or so minutes I spent on the phone with Ed Asner last week.
Ed Asner appears Wednesday night at 7:00 PM at Fuller Hall at St. Johnsbury Academy.  His one-man show, F.D.R., is being sponsored by Catamount Arts. You are well [...]

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And today, we hear from James Moore, the Clean Energy Program Director for VPIRG, the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, a consumer and environmental advocacy group in operation since 1972.
VPIRG wants Vermont Yankee closed for good in 2012.  James also called some of yesterday’s guest’s comments untruthful…AND called out Northeast Kingdom state Senators Matt Choate [...]

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On Wednesday, the Vermont state Senate will vote on whether or not to relicense Vermont Yankee, the state’s nearly forty-year old nuclear plant.  Opponents say NO, that the aging plant should be shuttered in 2012, when its current license runs out.  Others say wait until the Public Service Board has gathered all the necessary information [...]

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November may seem distant, but the campaigning has begun.  Lt. Governor Brian Dubie, who threw his hat in the ring after Governor Jim Douglas announced he would not be running, has been on a “Jobs Tour” of the state since mid-January.
Wednesday morning, prior to visiting companies throughout the Northeast Kingdom, he stopped by the studios.  [...]

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Corporate Agribusiness doesn’t give a damn about you.  They prove this with every recall, with every outbreak of botulism, every time a slaughterhouse gets fined and keeps doing what it does.
The movie FOOD, INC. is being shown at Lyndon State College on Saturday night at 8:00 PM.  There is no charge.  It’s being presented by [...]

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News Flash: Despite your dramatic and hyperbolic rhetoric I, and millions of other average Americans, am thrilled that health care reform is passing (even in it’s diluted and imperfect state).  We’re also disgusted with the GOP’s disingenuous denunciations, carefully-scripted and inaccurate sound bites, and constant obstructionism and negativity.
Maybe the technique you and your party have [...]

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Darcy Carter is the District Director for the Small Business Administration in Vermont.  In late February, she called in to tell us about some new financial and business development programs the SBA was implementing.
On Tuesday morning, Darcy called in again, to give us some numbers, and to give us what on the surface seems like [...]

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Hey, Max Baucus…you suck.
That’s all I got today.
Jingo
The Uninsured American

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The Dark Clown Jingo just completed a one-night stand at Catamount Arts  in St. Johnsbury as part of the Belly Dance Circus. The crowd was standing room, the show was wicked, the After Party is still going on.  He sent us this note…
 I’m looking for a new rickshaw driver. Young Kyle is no longer in [...]

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Editor’s Note:
He finished his last show at Dead North in Danville nearly four years ago and then disappeared into the night. Until today, nobody knew where he’d been.  But the man known as Jingo The Dark Clown is back in St. Johnsbury, preparing to perform at the Belly Dance Circus, at Catamount Arts on [...]

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