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Around the bend: Tomato crop boost leads to overkill

Posted on July 14, 2011 |
By Jessie Raymond



Proof I’m not a good gardener: I’m afraid of my tomatoes.

It’s not the kind of hair-trigger fear that enables me to leap backwards over a 6-foot tall row of beans when I see a spider. It’s more of a low-grade foreboding of things to come later in the summer. I have too many tomato plants and I’m scared.

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Clippings: Kitten's good fortune speaks volumes

Posted on July 7, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



When Josefina was two weeks old, she was abandoned in a dumpster.

Whether she was the product of a premature feline mother that couldn’t handle the stress of kittens or she was the victim of callous owners, we will never know.

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Between the Lines: The view from the porch

Posted on July 7, 2011 |
By Gregory Dennis



It is a neighborhood of porches. Deep, wide porches framed by white columns and balustrades that are the perfect spot for a sandaled foot to rest.

And resting – taking a load off, settling in for a chat with a housemate or savoring a solitary scotch as the slow summer evening fades toward its demise – that’s what these porches are made for.

For cooling off when it’s too hot to do anything else. For conversation when it’s lonely inside.

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Politically Thinking: Much is riding on CVPS acquisition

Posted on July 7, 2011 |
By Eric L. Davis



The bidding war between two Canadian utilities for control of Central Vermont Public Service has both economic and political implications for Vermont.

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Clippings: Online communities are still reality

Posted on June 30, 2011 |
By Andrea Suozzo



On Friday evening, I sat glued to the action in the Senate chambers a hundred miles away in Albany, N.Y.

No, wait. I was actually in my living room at home, with “Arrested Development” playing on the TV, the shouts of kids running up and down the street wafting in the open window.

But if my surroundings were serene, the Twitter stream coming in over the phone in my hand was anything but.

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Around the bend: Haste can lay waste to risk-takers

Posted on June 30, 2011 |
By Jessie Raymond



“Why, instead of doing things the right way, do we do them in a way we know will end badly?”

When my friend Jenn called me the other day with this question, it wasn’t merely academic.

Jenn recently became a beekeeper. Over the course of just a few weeks she already had come to think of her thousands of honeybees as little buzzing friends. Watching their goings (sans pollen) and comings (fully pollen-loaded) was giving her hours of pleasure.

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Clippings: Cup runneth over for Boston fans

Posted on June 23, 2011 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



Someday, Cleveland, you, too, will rock and join Boston.

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Politically thinking: GOP seeks alternative to Romney

Posted on June 23, 2011 |
By Eric L. Davis



Last week’s Republican presidential candidates’ debate in New Hampshire was the kick-off to a campaign that will end in August 2012 in Tampa, when the GOP nominates its candidate to oppose President Obama’s bid for re-election. Although the Republican contest is still in its very early days, some key themes of the campaign are emerging.

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Between the Lines: Taking a hard look at single-payer health

Posted on June 23, 2011 |
By Gregory Dennis



There are plenty of reasons to be worried about Vermont’s march toward single-payer health care.

Federal health care reform may allow states to cover virtually all health care costs within their borders. But of course there’s no guarantee such a system would work. It’s never been tried in the U.S.

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Clippings: A youthful malady, multiplied by age

Posted on June 16, 2011 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



“Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.”  I’m reminded of that 1971 David Bowie song — the title, at least; not that I ever got the lyrics at age 17 when it first came out or 39 years later. Something about “time may change me, but I can’t trace time.”

Certainly time changes people, but what is this notion about not being able to “trace time”? Is it that you can’t change what has been; you can’t relive the moment? That time’s not a do-over?

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