AltWeeklies Wire
How I Put My Back into Chiropracticnew
A chiropractor? I'd never been to one, but I thought, I guess they're the docs to help with back trouble, right?
Seven Days |
Meghan Dewald |
01-18-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Homeland Security Offers 'Pre-Written' Articles to Pressnew
DHS is paying a Pennsylvania ad firm to pitch "pre-written" winter-weather-preparedness articles to the national press -- including Seven Days and other Vermont newspapers.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
01-18-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Choice, Before and Afternew
Vermont's first abortion providers give Roe v. Wade a check-up.
Seven Days |
Amy Lilly |
01-18-2008 |
Sex
Planet Aid: Help to the Poor or Charitable Pandora’s Box?new
Some people are asking whether the national nonprofit is siphoning donations away from other, well-established local charities, or actually benefiting the poor people it claims to help.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
01-14-2008 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Fission Accomplishednew
When the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant finally closes, will there be enough money to clean up its radioactive legacy?
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
12-17-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Riding With the U.S. Border Patrolnew
"This job can be hours of mind-numbing boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror."
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
12-07-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Truckers Find Wait Times Shorter at the Bordernew
Since a fall meeting with U.S. Customs and Border Protection honcho Steven Farquharson, many Vermont truckers are reporting shorter waits, more cooperative Customs officers and improved signage directing car traffic away from lanes meant solely for 18-wheelers.
Seven Days |
Patrick Ripley |
12-07-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Bordering on Fearnew
How a misinterpreted gesture may have landed me on the terrorist watch list.
Seven Days |
Matt Scanlon |
12-07-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Keeping Coolnew
Sterling College's Center for Northern Studies talks tundra in a warming world.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
12-06-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
Farmers, Activists & Ag Experts Weigh in on Farm Billnew
This year's bill tips the scales at more than 1500 pages, with an estimated price tag of nearly $300 billion. For the next five years, this bill will go a long way toward determining what we grow, what we eat, and whose wallets and waistbands grow the widest.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard and Mike Ives |
11-16-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment, Farm Bill
This Faith-Based Sex Ed Doesn't Leave Teens in the Darknew
The Our Whole Lives curriculum, developed nationally by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ, provides young people with the most powerful tool at their disposal: age-appropriate and fact-based information.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
10-19-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Why Are So Many Workers Leaving the Burlington Free Press?new
In the past year, the Gannett-owned paper has started publishing five free weeklies and is enlarging its freestanding weekend section and jazzing up its website with video and interactive elements. At the same time, it has been losing reporters and editors -- lots of them.
Seven Days |
Kevin J. Kelley |
09-20-2007 |
Media
Police Taser Dog to Deathnew
The Vermont attorney general is investigating all police use of Tasers.
Seven Days |
Patrick Ripley |
09-05-2007 |
Animal Issues
Laid to Rustnew
Six years and $19 million into a major Superfund cleanup, why is the Ompompanoosuc River running orange?
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
09-05-2007 |
Environment
Factory Falloutnew
This Labor Day, former workers from Vermont's decommissioned manufacturing facilities will be left out of the party.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
08-31-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
