Monthly Archives: June 2005

No Child Sent Away

6/30/2005 – 9:53 am

Although polls show Americans’ support for the war in Iraq is slipping, the public is not of one mind. Some oppose the war, some support it; many have mixed feelings. Just as soldiers in combat fight for each other and not for an ideology or a political position, there are issues on [...]

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La Danse Macabre

6/23/2005 – 9:42 am

Vermont is in the middle of a federal murder trial that may lead to our state’s first execution in 51 years. In November 2000, Donald Fell and Robert Lee killed Mr. Fell’s mother and her boyfriend in Rutland, Vermont, then carjacked Teresca King, drove her across the New York state line and killed her. [...]

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Legitimate Aspirations

6/16/2005 – 6:15 am

The war in Iraq, like the war in Vietnam, is a quagmire, but where does the comparison end? There’s a wall in Washington, DC that says the Vietnam War lasted 16 years and cost 58,000 American lives. Let’s hope we don’t match those statistics before we bring the troops home.
As in Vietnam, it’s [...]

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

6/9/2005 – 10:20 am

Vermont’s forum for direct democracy, the town meeting, made national news in March when 50 towns passed resolutions calling on the state legislature to investigate the effect National Guard deployments have on the state, asking Congress to balance authority over the Guard between state and federal governments and calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops [...]

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You Be The Judge

6/2/2005 – 10:36 am

Science, law and religion are meeting this spring in state capitols and at local pharmacies. The topic of discussion is “Plan B,” a contraceptive drug sometimes called “the morning after pill.” Plan B is a concentrated dose of the hormone levonorgestrel and taking it will prevent a woman from ovulating, prevent an egg [...]

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