Author Archives: floegel

Walking to Canada

11/25/1999 – 3:08 pm

Happy Thanksgiving. It’s a day for traditions, every family has them – turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie, going to church, watching football, visiting, playing cards in the back room, perhaps. How about a walk? I know any number of people who go out to stretch their legs and get a lungful of bracing air, either to […]

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Brave New Twinkie

11/18/1999 – 3:10 pm

The Burlington paper, the Gannett Sunday rag, says that for the 14th time in the past five years Burlington – or Vermont – has made the national list of “best places to live.” Really? Well, we’ll see. Vermont’s number one industry is tourism, so it’s no surprise that when the list-makers stop by for a […]

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Produce World, Meat World

11/11/1999 – 3:12 pm

There was snow on the mountaintops six weeks ago, which means it’s due in the valleys this week. I’ve seen a few flakes floating in the air, but nothing has accumulated on the ground. The harvest is in, which means no more fresh vegetables from the farm share. The Saturday public market has shut down […]

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Feeding the Hungry

11/4/1999 – 3:13 pm

The World Trade Organization, which is quickly becoming the transnational government of Planet Earth, will be meeting in Seattle at the end of this month. Right now, it looks as if the meeting will be a food fight with the delegates from Europe squaring off against the Americans over biotechnology and genetically-modified organisms in the […]

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The Hammer of Justice

10/28/1999 – 3:41 pm

Here’s a piece of news you might have missed if you were watching CNN: a week ago today, a Scottish judge, Margaret Gimblett, acquitted three anti-nuclear protesters on charges of sabotaging a floating laboratory which supports British Trident nuclear submarines. In June, the protesters – Ellen Moxley, Ulla Roder and Angie Zelter – boarded the […]

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Horror Stories

10/21/1999 – 4:40 pm

Autumn is slipping away from the north woods and I’ve been out camping again. Late at night, lying very still in my sleeping bag, I listen to the night sounds, raccoons rustling the dry leaves as they investigate the campsite, the clicking of bare twigs as the wind moves through the trees, the snort and […]

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News to the Senate

10/14/1999 – 4:41 pm

If you really want to understand an issue, find a newspaper reporter, sit him or her in a bar and start buying beer. In 30 minutes, she or he will lay the whole thing out for you with astonishing clarity. Now, why they fail to explain things so clearly when they sit down to write […]

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