Friday, 3/20/09
NEWS:
Union Protests Bailout
Hanover -- Peter Marsh, his white jeans spattered with paint, stood on South Main Street during his lunch hour and held a poster that read: “Bank of America Bad for America.” See full story
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NEWS:
House Passes Bonuses Tax
Washington -- Congress moved yesterday to levy punitive taxes on bonuses at financial firms receiving government aid, threatening to undermine federal efforts to rescue the financial system by driving away participants in the programs. See full story
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SPORTS:
Big Green Junior Overcomes Injury, Position Change
Hanover -- Trace the path backward from Dartmouth's seventh NCAA Tournament bid to the pivot point of the season, and there's an odd element at the source. See full story
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CLOSE-UP:
At the Howe: Film Scholar to Discuss Experimental Filmmaker Vorkapich
Ross McElwee's Bright Leaves probably wasn't one of the more widely viewed films of 2003. Not that a documentary about McElwee's family’s connection to tobacco production would have been intended for a wide audience. See full story
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EDITORIAL:
Women At Work
The Recession and Role Reversals
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While no one can know with certainty the duration of this recession, it has lasted long enough to alter ever so slightly the composition of the U.S. workforce. Women now make up almost half of all workers and may soon surpass men if recent trends hold. The fact is worth noting, whatever its impact on jobs and households and the relationship between the sexes. If nothing else, it is evidence of just how much the American workplace and society in general have evolved in two generations. See full story
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For complete story, see today's Valley News
NEWS: Newbury Boy Wins Vermont Spelling Bee
Newbury, Vt. -- Timothy Webb still sounded quite excited last evening, more than 24 hours after the 12-year-old from Newbury Village officially became Vermont's top speller and the state's representative to the National Spelling Bee in May by beating out 44 other contestants at St. Michael’s College in Colchester.
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NEWS: Valley Plaza Wins Suit To Add Store
Concord -- The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Upper Valley Plaza in a long-running zoning dispute with the city of Lebanon about building in the Connecticut River floodplain.
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NEWS: New Bridge to Honor a Consensus Builder
Lebanon -- After more than 50 years in public life, City Councilor Terri Dudley will retire from politics next week with a number of distinctions, none more emblematic than the prospect that she will soon have a bridge named after her.
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NEWS: Panel Delays Vt. Yankee Vote
Montpelier -- The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant's owners are hurting their bid to win state approval for a 20-year license renewal because they have not said what the plant's electricity would cost during the license extension period, a former state regulator said yesterday.
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