"Fantastic," beautiful," and "amazing" were just a few of the
comments from islanders about the three, 1.5 megawatt wind turbines on
Vinalhaven. Over 400 people came to the site of the Fox Islands Wind
Power Project for Tuesday's ribbon-cutting to celebrate the completion
of the turbines, which now provide power to North Haven and Vinalhaven
residents.
Recent Posts
- Yes, he is a fascist.
- GOP top
- The many lives of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Incredibly yuge!!
- Some of us hang together; some hate everyone
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- Brentrance
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- How the Republicans (reds) are (slowly) taking over
The Scribe
- Four types of Democrats, five types of Republicans. Too partisan to govern?
- November 2011: What is OCCUPY?
- Nation-killer: America has an inequality problem that's bringing our society down
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- Obama's principles, his skepticism, his pragmatism, and his game plan
- Our "hidden brains" -- political decisions, the Republican disconnect, and how politicians connive with voters
- Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Who gets reformed and who gets protected?
- Searching for "truth and accuracy" in the media
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- LOL! How the internet was born
- The danger next time: the pressures to keep financial instruments unregulated
- "Uh-oh. Wall Street has got its swagger back!" Interview with economist Simon Johnson
- T. R. Reid: How to win over the right and get "better, cheaper, and fairer health care"
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- "The Predator State": an interview with James K. Galbraith
- Interview with George Packer on "The Fall of Conservatism"
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- "Gotcha Capitalism": about those capitalist predators we love to hate
- "Free Lunch": David Cay Johnston on hidden government subsidies for the very, very rich
- Matt Bai, "The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics"
- Why Iran distrusts the US
- Drew Westen, "The Political Brain"
- Analysis: Right to choose
- How a third candidate affects how we decide who to vote for: "The decoy effect"
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- Interview with Chalmers Johnson
- "One step too far:" Serious shifts in the federal balance of power, and some excerpts from Justice O'Connor's Georgetown speech
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Finders Keepers
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- Too damn much gratitude
- "Ascending Bird"
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- Monk and Coltrane together again
- Marsalis plays Coltrane
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- Rubens and Warhol
- Not entirely what it seems: Istanbul to Meshed to Srinagar to Saigon
- Self
- More pattern language
- Wanted
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- Notes from a prurient January evening in the late 1980's
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- Richard Wilbur
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Legal stimulants
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