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Between the lines: Christmas music, from Dylan to Death Row

Posted on December 15, 2016 |
By Greg Dennis



No holiday has inspired more music — and groans about its omnipresence — than Christmas.

It used to be the holiday music started in stores the day after Thanksgiving. This year I heard holiday harmonies on the day after Halloween. Talk about feeling haunted…

But in spite of the insipid nature of most Christmas music, every year we believers and nonbelievers at some point fall prey to its charms. Even the Scrooges among us put on a few tunes come Christmas Eve.

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Greg Dennis: Trump, God and pipe bombs

Posted on November 17, 2016 |
By Greg Dennis



A friend of mine is a longtime cashier at the Middlebury co-op. She says last Wednesday, Nov. 9, was the toughest workday that she can recall there.

The co-op cash register is as much a social gathering as a place for financial transactions. So my friend’s workday last Wednesday was filled with a procession of grieving liberals dismayed by Donald Trump’s “victory” in the presidential election.

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Greg Dennis: Town fight vs. solar array is wasteful

Posted on June 16, 2016 |
By Greg Dennis



So it’s come to this.

The selectboard in New Haven is spending taxpayer money tilting at windmills. Well, actually, tilting at solar panels.

The board is using public money to ask the Vermont Supreme Court to overturn approval of an appropriately sited, state-approved solar energy project in the town.

The board and a minority of New Haven residents have criticized solar projects in the town for being too visible from Route 7. These projects, they worry, can disrupt valley and mountain views.

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Greg Dennis: Is 'Trumpmania' a media phenomenon or news?

Posted on March 10, 2016 |
By Greg Dennis



Has the media’s obsession with Donald Trump gone too far?

On the cable news networks, it’s often All Trump, All the Time. That has prompted the media’s critics — who are never in short supply — to question this obsession with the coarse braggart who is leading the Republican presidential race.

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Greg Dennis: Optimism on Vermont's 'climate economy'

Posted on February 25, 2016 |
By Greg Dennis



When confronted with the latest piece of bad news about climate change — record-high temperatures, devastating floods, the North Pole turned into a giant swimming pool — I’m inclined to respond as the writer Dorothy Parker did to many events:

“What fresh hell is this?”

So it was with surprise and delight that I found 500 Vermonters talking this week — not about the latest gloom-and-doom scenario, but about how a rapidly changing climate can be the basis for a new and better Vermont economy.

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Greg Dennis: Remedies for snow-starved skiers

Posted on February 11, 2016 |
By Greg Dennis



Mad River Glen is famous for its “Ski It If You Can” slogan.

But in a winter like this one, what’s a skier to do if — ski it, you can’t?

Despite a bit of white stuff this week, we are in the grip of one of the warmest winters in memory, due in part to climate change and El Niño. So while Colorado skiers are experiencing Powder Nirvana, we have so far been consigned to a Vermont “winter” that resembles nothing so much as Georgia in January.

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Greg Dennis: Bold leadership on Vermont divestment

Posted on January 14, 2016 |
By Greg Dennis



What a difference a year makes.

In 2014, Gov. Peter Shumlin made national headlines with a bold State of the State address that highlighted opiate addiction.

Last year, by contrast, the governor had to find a back way out of the Statehouse after his annual address. His normal exit was blocked by dozens of angry protesters, who objected to his abandoning the dream of single-payer healthcare.

Fast forward to this year’s address — and once again Shumlin plays the role of bold leader.

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Greg Dennis: Hashtag is not a breakfast dish

Posted on August 5, 2015 |
By Greg Dennis



So is social media making us all one big happy human family? Are we all friends now that we’re on Facebook — or are we fake friends who’ve been fooled into exposing our personal interests so companies can market to us?

Most of us — a billion-plus — have made our peace with Facebook. It’s not just a way to find long-lost friends. It’s an easy way to keep in touch with people we don’t see every day.

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Greg Dennis: Some fresh recipes for summer

Posted on July 23, 2015 |
By Greg Dennis



“The garden provides a list of ingredients, inspires the recipes, and collaborates on the menu. It’s more interactive. It’s more fun.”

—Barbara Damrosch, “The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cook Book”

 

 

Lake Champlain Algae Oatmeal

This unique breakfast dish is available every summer on the west coast of New England.

Serves: Several thousand residents of eastern New York and western Vermont.

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Greg Dennis: Joni Mitchell, a life in song

Posted on April 23, 2015 |
By Greg Dennis



Get ready to say goodbye to Joni Mitchell.

The esteemed singer-songwriter was recently hospitalized after being found unconscious at her Southern California home. She is a survivor of childhood polio, 60 years of smoking, 50 years of fame (she called it “a glamorous misunderstanding”) and Morgellon’s syndrome.

Mitchell may not be long for this world. But she will leave behind a legacy of song that will outlast the century.

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