AltWeeklies Wire
Body Wisdomnew
Do your muscles know what you should and shouldn't eat?
Seven Days |
Corin Hirsch |
06-02-2011 |
Science
Boxed Innew
Can Vermont Public Television survive in a changing media landscape?
Seven Days |
Megan James |
04-29-2011 |
Media
Doggie DNAnew
More and more pet owners are testing their canine’s chromosomes.
Seven Days |
Andy Bromage |
03-28-2011 |
Animal Issues
Up in Armsnew
Corporate greenwashing or “swords into ploughshares”?
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
02-14-2011 |
War
Tags: Lockheed, Greenwashing
Ticked Off About Lyme Diseasenew
Lyme disease can mean severe pain for patients and legal headaches for physicians.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
06-28-2010 |
Science
Tags: Lyme Disease
Vermont's Colleges are Underreporting Sexual Assaultsnew
A review of statistics filed by Vermont’s institutions of higher learning in the past decade suggests that the number of sexual assaults they report to the government is far lower than the number that actually occur.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
04-02-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Burlington Realtor Jessica Bridge Wants to Make You Happynew
Jessica Bridge knows nearly everybody. And just about everybody in Burlington seems to know her. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of making Bridge’s acquaintance, sit tight. At some point, someone will recommend her.
Seven Days |
Lauren Ober |
03-12-2010 |
Housing & Development
Buy an Island: A County's Priciest Property Listing is in the Middle of Converse Baynew
With their children grown, the owners of a Vermont island retreat have put it on the market at a price as big as the bathtub once used by President Taft: $7.9 million. The estate’s $19,652 yearly property tax bill is just as eye-popping.
Seven Days |
Andy Bromage |
03-12-2010 |
Housing & Development
Facebook as Morality Police? A Scandal Highlights the State of Sex on Campusnew
What about fellow students who look on with disgust at all this saliva swapping, ass grabbing and awkward hump dancing? At St. Michael’s College, one group of them has come up with a pointed retaliation: an anonymous Facebook page called “Spotted Getting-Some.”
Seven Days |
Lea McLellan |
02-25-2010 |
Sex
A Reporter Finds Getting to Cuba Easier Than Getting Outnew
Officials on the U.S. side were polite but firm when my family returned to Vermont from a two-week visit to Cuba. They ripped apart a red Che Guevara T-shirt I’d bought for my daughter. And they sliced up the two necklaces — total value $2 — that Liam had bought on a beach.
Seven Days |
Kevin J. Kelley |
01-29-2010 |
International
A Professor Investigates Africa’s Most Dreaded Disease: Malarianew
At first glance, UVM assistant professor Arne Bomblies seems like an unlikely person to be conducting research on malaria, an illness that kills more than a million people worldwide each year, most of them African children, at a rate of one every 30 seconds.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
01-22-2010 |
Science
Family Ties: Why One Non-Biological Parent Wants to Give Up Adoptionnew
My attorney told me that if I wanted to protect myself and my kids, I should adopt them. I wasn't entirely clear why. Did I need to adopt them because we don't share DNA? If a straight couple conceived a child using a sperm donor, would the man have to adopt the child to be considered its father?
Seven Days |
Cathy Resmer |
12-09-2009 |
LGBT
Will a New Vermont Free Speech Law Protect Website Owners from a Powerful Religious Sect?new
The Exclusive Brethren is suing the owners of a website that serves excommunicated believers. Will Vermont's new anti-SLAPP statute protect them?
Seven Days |
Andy Bromage |
11-04-2009 |
Religion
University of Vermont Faces a Decline in Body Donationsnew
The declining number of donors may be related to the cost associated with giving one's body to medical science. Although UVM absorbs nearly all the expenses, transportation costs are still incurred by the next of kin. In tough economic times, that expense may be too much for some Vermonters to shoulder.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
10-30-2009 |
Science
Homeland Security Wants Eminent Domain Over a Vermont Farm at the Bordernew
The federal government may invoke the doctrine of eminent domain to appropriate as much as 10.5 acres of the Rainvilles' cropland, which an impact study calls "negligible." Brian Rainville, son of farm owner Clement Rainville, says those acres are essential to the small dairy farm's livelihood.
Seven Days |
Lauren Ober |
10-05-2009 |
Housing & Development
