William Boardman

City of Montpelier deprives city employee of due process rights One of the wonders of the American legal system is that you can win your case in court, only to have the court’s decision extend and magnify the underlying injustice.…

“Hopefully we get it more right than wrong” – organizing principle? As Hillary Clinton was widely quoted as saying recently, “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.” Maybe others have pointed out that…

And the radioactive waste from Fukushima goes to: Fukushima! Nobody in the world knows how dispose of radioactive waste safely and permanently. That’s a given. The Japanese central government is presumably aware that anything it does with still the unmeasured,…

U.S. takes little responsibility, offers little protection Ferguson, Gaza, and Luhansk bleed all the time these days and the United States does nothing very useful for any of them. Not in out “national interest.”Â  Simpler and easier to blame the…

Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations” means what? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States is a full blown oxymoron when it comes to protecting U.S. residents from the danger of increased exposure to ionizing radiation. That’s the kind…

“Black Boxes Show Shrapnel Destroyed Malaysia Airlines Plane, Ukraine Says” That headline in the Wall Street Journal of July 28 creates the immediate false impression that there is new information: shrapnel destroyed plane! Before the headline is over, the WSJ begins backtracking…