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This morning, as on every weekday morning, hundreds — perhaps thousands — of men and women get into their electric, hybrid or bio-fueled cars, head to their downtown offices, sit at their computers, and start to trade. For information about just what to trade and at what price, they phone or email fellow Vermonters, consultants working out of their homes or small offices scattered around the state.... Read more

An unexplained and lingering medical condition can sometimes feel like an unscratched itch. Ignore it, and it only seems to get worse. In an age when environmental horror stories abound, and previously unknown threats seem to come at us from all directions, even an apparently benign ailment can take on much larger proportions. That’s especially true when the perceived danger is in a position to affect children.... Read more

VERMONT - International Paper's effort to test-burn shredded tires for fuel at its Ticonderoga mill is Vermont's current environmental cause célèbre. But amid all the official posturing, legal maneuvering and media scrutiny, some Vermont environmentalists warn that the tire-burn debate obscures another potential health hazard lurking in the future: the incineration of IP's papermaking sludge.... Read more

MONTPELIER - With Attorney General William Sorrell by his side, Governor Jim Douglas vowed Monday that Vermont will "exhaust all our legal options" to stop a proposed test-burn of shredded tires at the International Paper (IP) mill in Ticonderoga, New York. Sorrell also announced his intention to file an 11th-hour appeal of last month's New York Supreme Court ruling, which denied Vermont's petition to stop a burn permit from being issued.... Read more

FORT TICONDEROGA, NY -- Dick Brigham can't say for sure what causes the strange brown honey his bees produce every few years, but he suspects it's due to airborne contaminants. The Shrewsbury beekeeper, who has made his living in the Champlain Valley for 40 years, says he's seen "atrocious things" coming out of the smokestacks at the International Paper mill across the lake in Fort Ticonderoga. Now, he worries what the economic, environmental and health impacts would be on his neighbors, his bees and himself if the mill burns scrap tires for fuel.... Read more

At least five people associated with Burlington High School, including three teachers, the wife of a teacher and a former student, all developed potentially deadly heart problems that they believe were caused by a virus that may have spread through the school's ventilation system in the winter of 2002.... Read more

Bars in Middlebury go smoke-free this Saturday, just as the Vermont Legislature takes final action on an even broader smoking ban.

Local residents have expressed overwhelming support for the Middlebury measure. They voted 706-200 on Town Meeting Day in favor of a proposal to stub out smoking in bars open to the public. The six-member Select Board then unanimously enacted the ordinance.... Read more

Erstwhile cookie-baker Senator Hillary Clinton lost brownie points with Addison County moms for supporting a test burn of tires at International Paper in Ticonderoga, N.Y. Last Saturday, members of two Addison County citizen groups, Moms for Safe Milk and People for Less Pollution, held a bake sale on the Middlebury village green in an effort to stop International Paper from incinerating 72 tons of old car tires per day -- a process critics charge would introduce dangerous levels of dioxins, heavy metals and other carcinogens into Vermont.... Read more

Vermont takes more than it gives -- air pollution, that is. The Green Mountain State doesn't have much heavy industry, but it's on the receiving end of toxic emissions from smokestacks and incinerators that are hundreds, even thousands, of miles away. And if International Paper in Ticonderoga, New York, gets a permit to burn 72 tons of old tires each day for energy, Vermonters will bear an even heavier toxic load.... Read more

Let's see, now. This week the latest political polls show our Howard Dean 21 points ahead of John Kerry in New Hampshire and 10 points ahead of Dick Gephardt in Iowa. Dr. Dean is even nine points ahead of Kerry in Big John's home state of Massachusetts.
You know what?

With less than two months to go before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, the little guy from Vermont has it all locked up.... Read more