The Houle Story
Are there any Vermonters left in Vermont? In response to Ken Picard’s article about embattled select board member and town S.O.B. Mary Houle [“Is Mary Houle Rescuing Richmond or Tearing It Apart?” October 28], I’d like to pose that question: Are there?... Read more

Patent Lie
[Re: “Tech Entrepreneurs Await State’s New Seed-Money Fund,” October 20]: Referring to the original legislative proposal, the article stated, “Facing the deepest fiscal crisis in years, the legislature shot down two of the wishes — a business tax credit for research and development, and tax exemptions for income on certain kinds of patents — because it would have forfeited badly needed state tax revenues.”... Read more

Separation Anxiety
[In his October 21 “Fair Game” column, Shay Totten wrote]: “Hats off to Louis Porter at the Vermont Press Bureau for his eyebrow-raising item in Sunday’s ‘Capitol Beat’ column. Porter reported that Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin (D-Windham) has separated from his wife of 20 years.”... Read more

Kiss Off ... Read more

The Pits
I’d like to correct a mischaracterization of our neighborhood in Seven Days. In the October 14 article about the Fenn gravel mine application [“Opponents Say They Were Sandbagged by a Proposed Gravel Pit Hearing in Middlebury”], Fred Dunnington, our town planner, calls this “a neighborhood of gravel pits.”... Read more

Life after Douglas ... Read more

Wedding Belles
Woweee!! Great story coverage [“Stuck in Vermont #144: Dana & Katie Get Married,” September 16]!! Making herstory!
Chrissie Dyck
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

More of Moran ... Read more

IN DEFENSE OF TOURTERELLE ... Read more

VSAC GRAD ... Read more

BROMAGE NAILED IT
I really enjoyed Andy Bromage’s piece, “Unfair Market?” [September 2]. I want to applaud Seven Days for running it and also to offer my congratulations to Mr. Bromage: (1) for successfully finding an apartment that fit his needs and (2) for telling a story that absolutely needs to be heard.... Read more