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Early last week Hannaford Bros. Corp., which operates close to 300 supermarkets in New England and Florida, announced that cyber-thieves had compromised more than four million of its customers’ credit and debit card numbers over a four-month period beginning last December.... Read more

What role should religion play in our public schools? That’s a question Lee Sease, the Addison Central Supervisory Union Superintendent, has had to wrestle with in recent months, after a Middlebury Union High School student filed a lawsuit requesting that a religious club called Youth Alive be given the same recognition and support as other student groups. It’s been a question, as well, for the Williston Central School, which hosts an after-school Christian group for elementary and middle school students called the Good News Club.... Read more

Patrick Henry is better known for his liberty-or-death quote. But the American revolutionary also said: “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”... Read more

His name may not be a household word despite what he does for work, but the rookie mayor of the largest city in Vermont told “Inside Track” this week he likes his job so much, you can put him down as a candidate for reelection in March 2009!... Read more

Cuffed and Stuffed
I was coming back from Canada earlier this month after a shopping trip. When we got to the border, there were four of us in the car — me, my wife, her neighbor and her daughter. We handed them our papers, passports and such. Then the officer said to me, “Can I see your hands please.” I showed him my hands, and he asked me to step out of the car. Of course, I did.... Read more

Acuriously intense blanket of fog made nearly the whole journey from Montréal to the Highgate Springs border entrance a hyper-vigilant, steering-wheel-clenching affair. I approached the U.S. Customs station at 1 in the morning on November 21 with relief, if only because it was the first truly well-lit area I’d seen for 40 miles. Winding around the pylons and creeping up to the single open checkpoint lane, I saw that not a single car was ahead of me.... Read more

MIDDLEBURY — Talk about a curiously strong reaction to a box of breath mints. Several weeks ago, Becky Dayton, owner of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury, got a phone call from “an angry customer” complaining about a line of popular mints she sells at her register. The candies, which are packaged in assorted tins under such names as “Impeachmints,” “Indictmints” and “National Embarassmints,” feature unflattering illustrations of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and other White House officials.... Read more

Picture a 3000-mile-long dinner table spanning the United States. Then imagine all 303 million Americans sitting down to eat. All of them, that is, except for members of Congress and a bunch of lobbyists and farm activists, who are in the kitchen planning our menu.... Read more

The price of gasoline and home heating oil is shooting up.

The Vermont Foodbank, which serves 14,000 low-income Vermonters, reported this week that its shelves are looking a lot barer than they did last winter.

And the Defense Department reported the death in Iraq this week of another Vermont soldier in the war that is based on the Big WMD Lie.

Private Adam Muller graduated Mount Mansfield Union High School in 2004 and served with the 10th Mountain Division. The Humvee on which he was a gunner drove over an IED and blew up.... Read more

BURLINGTON — Ever wonder how much your bankers know about you, or what they can do with the information they do have? If so, a situation that occurred earlier this month at the Burlington Square Chittenden Bank may raise your eyebrows.... Read more