Apr 23-29, 2008
Congressman Welch Cracks Down on War Contractor Fraud; A Butcher-In-Training Learns How to Cut It; War Torn St. Michael’s College Takes a Vote
Benny Lava for Everyone
This has got to be the funniest music video of all time — even without the “translation!” Only from the land of Bollywood . . .
Free Press = Fruit Loops?
Last week, Burlington’s CCTV Channel 17 taped another episode of its Media Literacy Series. This one features Burlington Free Press environmental reporter Candy Page, Seven Days Staff Writer Ken Picard and Champlain College professor Craig Chevrier. Chevrier teaches a class called “Social Responsibility in Media.” His bio on the CCTV website says he serves as…
If You Can’t Take The Heat, Get A “HotHolder!”
You may already have seen these in Patrick Mullikin’s article called Kitchen Kitsch, but just in case you missed it, I wanted to call attention to these fun potholders by Vermont artist Sarah Green. If you’re tired of the standard options for keeping your hands burn free, you can head over to Etsy.com and put…
Richardson to Douglas: Find Nick Garza
From an unsourced story by KOB-TV, in Albuquerque: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s office plans to ask Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas to “step up” the search for Nick Garza, the Middlebury College student missing since Feb. 5. Garza, a freshman, was raised in Albuquerque, and his friends and family there have been closely following the…
Down in the Hole in America
The New York Times: “The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prison population . . . . Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to usingdrugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries.” The…
Sustainable Woodstock
Maybe this is how it will happen. In the absence of leadership on energy policy and global warming from our elected leaders, individual communities will turn inward, to their own resources of creativity, camaraderie and intelligence, and begin to right the ship. Town by town, city by city, they will put their shoulders to the…
Coffee Cuff
This makes me wish two things:1. That I still drank coffee.2. That I thought of it first.
I’m In Love with Pete’s Greens (This Week’s Farm Share)
It may have been 80-degrees today, but it’s still April, and usually, that means the only local vegetables available to Vermonters are baby spinach, sprouts and perhaps some tiny mesclun greens. But not if you have a Pete’s Greens CSA share. This week we got: Baby “salad turnips” and their greensA nice big head of…
Welch’s Contractor Loophole Bill Passes House of Representatives
This just in… Regarding this week’s cover story: Legislation introduced three weeks ago by Rep. Peter Welch to require overseas contractors to report cases of waste, fraud or abuse has passed the House of Representatives on a voice vote, according to a press release issued this afternoon by the Vermont congressman’s office. In November, the…
Woe is They
The suits at Gannett, I mean — those dashing men and women charting the future of America’s largest chain of “information centers,” which includes The Burlington Free Press. While we awaited a response — which never arrived — to the news that the Free Press had begun outsourcing advertising design to India, Gannett executives were releasing…
Middlebury College: Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth?
The Campus Question #14: Middlebury College
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Pure Pop Record Store Day [SIV76]
4/19/08: The first ever international Record Store Day was in full swing at Pure Pop Records Saturday. Music fans swarmed the bargain bins and went home armed with old and new records, tapes, and CDs. Why are indie record stores a vital part of our community? What makes them different from shopping for music online? …
French Connection
Art Review: Gaal Shepherd, “La Muraille: an exhibition on the theme of a wall.” Cooler Gallery, White River Junction. Through May 2.
Second Annual Ewaste Recycling Event
Small Dog Electronics, South Burlington, Saturday, April 19, 11 A.M. – 1 P.M.
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for April 23-April 30, 2008. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here…. ARIES (March 21-April 19): The U.S. government is spending over $500,000 per minute on the war in Iraq. Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil is raking in about $73,000 of profit per minute. Is there any connection? Though I have my…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Baltimore transit authorities said Issac Ray Dunn, 58, boarded the city’s light rail system but failed to show a ticket when asked. The transit inspector writing the citation for not paying the $1.60 fare ran a routine check and learned the federal government had a warrant for Dunn, who was apprehended and…
Moose Leaves Burlington
The Burlington Free Press reports that the moose on the loose earlier today has scampered safely away into South Burlington.
It’s Over…Thank Goodness!
Regular and even irregular readers of this blog may have noticed that I, um, haven’t been around much lately. In an earlier excu..post, I mentioned that I’ve been working on a major project and had started a new exercise regimen. Recently, I even added house-cleaning to my roster of daily activities, much to my s.o’s…
The Ken Lay Chair in Economics
Sounds like the punchline of a Motley Fool joke, doesn’t it?It’s not. As an alum and former member of the faculty at the University of Missouri — not to mention someone who documented Enron’s crimes and the aftermath back in the day — I have to wonder what the hell MU hopes to accomplish by…
Chicken Without the Bird
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is offering $1 million to anyone who can “produce meat in the laboratory — without killing any animals.” According to the New York Times, “the idea of getting the next Chicken McNugget out of a test tube is not new. For several years, scientists have worked to develop…
Moose on the Loose!
View Larger Map This morning we got a call about a moose sighting on Ledge Road in Burlington. Toffee Cowles called to tell us that she had a picture of the lanky beast. Sadly, it’s on a disposable camera. And there are 23 pictures left, so she doesn’t think she’s going to get it developed…
