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Senator Tells the Truth

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010 — Here’s something you don’t see every day: an honest elected official on the floor of the Senate presenting a truthful assessment of the state of the nation: Our editorial judgment, such as it is, tells us that this rare event deserves to be treated as more than just another feel-good locker room speech. Accordingly we have copied a transcript from the Senator’s site, and we’re posting it here. Speech by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) from the floor of the United States Senate on Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, there is a war going on in this country, …

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Seabrook Re-Licensing, or, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

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News Briefs for December 3, 2010, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 5, posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2011. On Monday Doug Bogen from the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League (SAPL) sent us a notice of a public hearing of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to be held last Tuesday morning at the Portsmouth Public Library. In case it might be of use, we quickly posted that notice on our website. The hearing appears to be the result of a petition filed by SAPL, the New Hampshire branch of the Sierra Club, and a Maryland-based organization called Beyond Nuclear. They wanted, they said, “a fair …

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Citizen Groups To Get NRC Hearing Tuesday

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 — UPDATE: We would like to encourage readers to check out the Comments for this post. — The Ed. Monday, November 29, 2010 — This just in from Doug Bogen, of the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League: Portsmouth – Citizen groups will get an opportunity to make their case for intervention in the early relicensing of the Seabrook nuclear power plant to operate until 2050. The hearing will take place at 9 AM to 1 PM on Tuesday, November 30th at the Levenson Room of Portsmouth Public Library. The groups – Beyond Nuclear (Takoma Park, MD), Seacoast Anti-Pollution League (Exeter, NH) and the …

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Rare Fowle Declaration Being Auctioned Today

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Sunday, November 14, 2010 — Today the Boston auction house of Skinner, Inc. will sell to the highest bidder an original copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1776 by Robert Luist Fowle. The public sale of a copy of the Declaration from one of the fourteen original printings is an exceedingly rare event. Of the 100 or so that have survived, nearly all are in libraries, museums, or other institutions.* According to Skinner’s catalog, this copy “[d]escended in a New Hampshire family, whose relative, a judge, likely received this document in his official capacity. The water stain occurred in …

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