Helluva ‘winter’ here in the Northeast Kingdom.  Ever since the January thaw, it hasn’t snowed much at all, hasn’t gotten cold, hasn’t done the things it’s supposed to do so the plow guys can make a few bucks and the snowmobilers can come up from down country and spend their dollars here.
Fortunately, lots of the [...]

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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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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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Rusty DeWees is a mass of contradictions.  His main character (he has plenty) is The Logger and in addition to a bunch of TV shows and movie appearances, writing a book, doing a weekly radio gig in Burlington and talking to high school kids about lifestyle choices, he spends a lot of time traveling Vermont [...]

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…early…but not unexpected.

(pictures by Cindy Nichols)

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After many days of chilly rain, the sun burst forth and confirmed what we suspected…it’s Peak Foliage time here in Northern New England.
A warm breeze from the south, spectacular color and a busy bunch of birds, bees and deer wandering around…surely the economists, the politicians, the scientists are just given to exaggeration.

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Governor Jim Douglas, R-Vermont, says he will not seek another term as governor of Vermont.
Douglas is in the first year of his fourth term as governor. And he has been in state government for most of his adult life– elected to statewide office 14 times and in office 25 of the last 27 years.
At a [...]

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