Stories
Demand for maple syrup and maple products is growing by about 6 to 8 percent per year globally. The prospect of that kind of return is drawing in investors to Vermont like moths to a flame.
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While Vermont is by far the highest producing maple syrup state in the United States, 70 percent of the world’s maple syrup is made in Québec.
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Residents of Amherst, Massachusetts, will soon vote on whether to put an end to their centuries-old Town Meeting and adopt a new form of government. The debate hasn’t always been friendly in this most liberal of New England towns.
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It’s a political insult that dates back to the 1800s and has been used as recently as last fall by the President: “He couldn’t get elected dogcatcher.” Often considered hyperbole, since there are no longer elected dogcatchers in the U.S., there’s a town in central Vermont where it could be taken quite literally.
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New England residents are charged some of the highest consumer rates for power in the country. This comes as the budget for the region’s electric grid operator rose by more than 30 percent over five years.
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Connecticut has spent over $50 million helping schools beef up security since 2013. Some of that money — $3.2 million — has gone to private schools, which are reimbursed at a higher rate than many public schools.
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Ageth Okeny fled war in Sudan with her four children.
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As New England’s aging fleet of oil and nuclear plants retire, one way to make up for lost energy is to build more generation: new solar panels or wind turbines. But there’s another untapped energy source out there — inefficient homes.
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Bernie Sanders inspired a political movement with his insurgent 2016 run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Yet he’s been reluctant to acknowledge that his campaign likely got some help from a Russian covert propaganda campaign.
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In early February, students at Princeton University protested when a professor used the N-word in a class about hate speech. He ended up canceling the course. It’s hardly the first time this epithet has sparked a debate over racial sensitivity and freedom of speech, including last semester at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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