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Clippings by Xian: Students learn the play's the thing

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



I have a confession to make: Despite growing up in a family of theater people, I never “got” Shakespeare. In fact, though I wouldn’t go so far as to say I hated Shakespeare, I pretty much had to be forced to pick up one of his plays. I was also almost always unmoved by the professional productions I saw growing up; “The Tempest,” “Macbeth,” “Hamlet” and “Midsummer” all had cool sets and costumes, but I still couldn’t understand what anyone was saying.

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Gregory Dennis: Ridgeline controversy, blowin' in the wind

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By Gregor Dennis



Is Vermont’s answer to climate change blowin’ in the wind?

Virtually all the climate change experts have concluded that yes, wind has to be part of the solution.

Unless renewable energy becomes a substantial portion of America’s energy mix, they say, we will continue our dangerous reliance on coal and natural gas for electricity.

Because these fossil fuels release carbon that is driving us over the climate change cliff, we have to find safer alternatives, and do it now.

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Community forum: The Little City sets the pace on renewable energy

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By Anders Holm



This week’s writer is Anders Holm, a longstanding Addison County resident, a senior member of the surgical staff at Porter Hospital and a lifelong renewable energy advocate.

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Opinion: Welfare time limits don't work

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By Margaret Nelson



 

This week’s writer is Margaret K. Nelson, Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College.

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Around the Bend: Vicious turkey is a sign of spring

Posted on March 14, 2013 |
By Jessie Raymond



Did you notice anything different about last weekend? If you’re like me you stepped outside, detected a change in the air, surveyed the layer of grime on the colorless landscape and thought, “Ah, it’s springtime in Vermont.”

Isn’t it beautiful?

I’m not saying the daffodils are up or that a reasonable person would take off their snow tires just yet. But for me the weekend marked an unmistakable turning point in the seasons.

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Clippings: Family newcomer can be gnaw-ty

Posted on March 14, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



Some dogs can allegedly be trained to bring their owners’ slippers to them.

But we’ve got one that carries mine out to the back yard and drops them into mud or snowdrifts, depending on meteorological conditions.

I don’t take it personally, however. On Monday, she picked up one of my daughter’s friend’s shoes and carried it through our two dog doors into the slop.

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Ways of Seeing: A yogic look at your beverage choices

Posted on March 14, 2013 |
By Joanna Colwell



The stone hearth around our woodstove was built by a talented jack-of-all-trades named Gary Barnett. These days, the area immediately in front of the stove is covered with bits of orange rind. Whenever we eat an organic orange, I break the peel into small pieces, and place them on the hearth to dry. Why? Because they are a frequent ingredient in the herbal teas that we serve after class in the yoga studio. After the rind has dried I add it to the large jar; each time I open it an intoxicating citrusy fragrance is released.

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Eric Davis: In Vermont, only the wealthy are seeing incomes grow

Posted on March 7, 2013 |
By Eric Davis



One of Gov. Shumlin’s talking points in his speeches around the state is that “Vermont’s economy is on the mend.” The governor claims that Vermont has been doing better than most states in recovering from the recession, and that Vermont was the only state in the nation to see actual growth in personal income from 2010 to 2011. While this claim is borne out by the economic data, what the governor does not say is that the income growth in 2011 was concentrated in a small proportion of Vermont households.

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Greg Dennis: Of pipelines and pie at town meeting

Posted on March 7, 2013 |
By Greg Dennis



Winston Churchill said of democracy that it is “the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” That may also be a good description of Vermont town meeting.

Voters at town meeting are asked to make decisions through a process that can be imprecise, contentious, confusing and ill informed.

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Ways of Seeing: Gray days are a good time for making plans

Posted on March 7, 2013 |
By Abi Sessions



It’s early March, when the gray skies and “mixed precipitation” always put me into a restless and dreary state of mind. Seems like a good time to augment the mood by writing about death.

Until now, I have succumbed to the cultural taboo against talking about death or preparing for death. It’s morbid. It’s sad. Nobody wants to hear it. If you talk about dying, it might happen! I don’t want to think about it. So I haven’t.

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