Ouch! Women Are Being Recognized Again
March marks Women’s History Month again, but I am not celebrating. Stories and images of courageous women of the past are everywhere. These women...
Image Credit Patrick Kyle
Since residents of Bennington, Vermont found PFOA in their tap water last year, it seemed a given to many of us that a broad, preventive response to chemical contamination would be crafted and approved by the State Legislature and Administration in 2018.
Sigh. We had high hopes for a while that this would add Vermont to the list of states taking action to protect our people and our environment from such toxic chemical contamination. ICYMI, this opinion piece by Sharon Lerner in the New York Times tells the in-depth story of how Massachusetts, California and Maine were early leaders and now the State of Washington was leading the charge.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/opinion/sunday/states-are-doing-what-scott-pruitt-wont.html
March marks Women’s History Month again, but I am not celebrating. Stories and images of courageous women of the past are everywhere. These women...
Ryan Johnson for NPR NPR shared an excellent piece today on the impact of technologies on our brains. This is the subject of near-daily discussion...
Amidst all the talk about the declining population of younger working-age people in Vermont and much of the Northeast, this research finding from the...