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2014
October 2014: October 5: Warren County minesweeper
June 2014: June 4: privatization palisades
April 2014: April 2: the dirty little engine that could
02/03/2013: a well-fertilized federal farm bill
2013
12/08/2013: three piggies went to market (two returned)
11/04/2013: general electric leaves fort edward for clearer waters
10/05/2013: vermont's surplus methane
09/05/2013: gambling with saratoga's past
07/03/2013: usda certifying organic greenery
06/01/2013: five and dime bags in a world of dollar stores
05/02/2013: fracking company plans for new york's home of greek yogurt
04/01/2013: congressional gun votes for sale
02/04/2013: upstate ny preppers
2012
12/04/2012: copernicus explains vermont solar energy
11/05/2012: changing political winds
10/03/2012: scott brown's 2012 rooftop baggage
09/04/2012: gop matrimony in new york's 43rd senate district
08/02/2012: inflation at county nursing omes
07/05/2012: coal plant mercury effecting northeast loons and republicans
06/04/2012: romney abandons newborn romneycare
03/30/2012: vermont vaccination bill
02/03/2012: vermont's ball and chain reaction
2011
12/01/2011: congressional reapportionment quilting throwdown
10/02/2011: wind farm angry birds
09/02/2011: bridges and post offices swept away
08/01/2011: modern day hipster jack and the organic beanstalk
06/30/2011: first and last rites for new york gay marriage supporters
05/30/2011: 2nd homeowner goose drops a golden egg
04/29/2011: general electric innovating ways to avoid pcb clean-up
03/28/2011: three nuclear power haiku
02/08/2011: malta reaping the treeless harvest of the chip fab plant
2010
12/07/2010: fee fi fo fum and the mass agriculture bureaucracy ogre
11/09/2010: homer gibson sees now downside in nuclear power
10/07/2010: chris gibson distancing himself from carl paladino
08/06/2010: midwifing the male new york legislature
07/05/2010: the video versus taser standoff
06/02/2010: english only in jackson, ny
05/01/2010: albany's deficit canyon
03/28/2010: pot legalizations in a gateway state
2009
12/15/2009: charter schools want a share of the tax-payer's lunch money
11/19/2009: scrapping old voting machines
10/11/2009: three species extirpation haiku
09/10/2009: organic milk from cash-starved cows
08/07/2009: biomass and the rains of 2009
07/09/2009: the toxic scare-parent in west pawlet, vermont
06/08/2009: henry hudson & samuel de champlain meet on the ge dredging barge
05/08/2009: exterminating weed from the mass garden of democracy
04/04/2009: absentee ballot egg hunt in new york's 20th cd
02/09/2009: gillibrand veers left on the road to the u.s. senate
2008
12/04/2008: industrial drilling for water
09/30/2008: sandy treadwell touts his family values
08/06/2008: odd vegetable facial features in bio-engineering
07/11/2008: obama's wiretap vote
07/07/2008: joe bruno, out to pasture
06/05/2008: cdta goes to the races
05/03/2008: commitment issues in vermont unions
04/05/2008: too many caesareans in american medicine
03/06/2008: consumer culture catching nature's disease
02/02/2008: rockefeller's illegitimate drug law dependents
12/04/2007: the cremains of fly ash polluters
2007
11/05/2007: rudy giuliani, latter day sox fan
10/03/2007: artistic wreckage at mass moca
09/06/2007: hospitals nursing off of big pharma
08/05/2007: gillibrand delivers a pork-stuffed farm bill to the organic table
07/05/2007: burocratic border barriers
06/08/2007: high-rent hives at the heart of colony collapse disorder
05/03/2007: w vetos new england town hall impeachment votes
04/05/2007: the cult of wamc's alan chartock
03/05/2007: vermont voters tackle school consolidation
02/01/2007: kirsten gillibrand, little miss sunshine
2006
11/30/2006: hudson muck dredging and a possible congressional rematch
11/02/2006: bgh cows and baseball steroids
08/29/2006: three women and a baby
08/01/2006: sweeney debating gillibrand debates
06/29/2006: joe bruno, the wizard of luther forest
06/04/2006: three haiku on fort edward, ny sprawl
05/04/2006: usda's chicken chase
04/04/2006: criminalizing common sense in berkshire county
01/30/2006: rich yodels from ridgeline developments
2005
12/01/2005: students wanting to be left behind army recruiting efforts
11/04/2005: low-power fm mammals in the land of dinosaurs
10/04/2005: wrong way in great barrington's war on drugs
08/31/2005: international hotel gangs invade the b & b
08/02/2005: pataki's romneyesque reflection in a broken mirror
06/29/2005: new york's voting slot machines
04/27/2005: big ag's new food pyramid
03/24/2005: the reverse causal relationship between mercury pollution and idiocy
02/17/2005: ny's rainbow division's sudden nostalgia for february in upstate, ny
01/15/2005: new product line for vermont's general stores
2004
10/04/2004: raking it in season in quaint vermont villages
08/27/2004: no blood for windfarms
07/23/2004: big box retailers in vermont, mass, and new york