When former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop died last week at age 96 in
Hanover, Tim
McQuiston was reminded of an interview he had with Koop 19 years ago.
Koop was living in Vermont at the time and had just started working at
Dartmouth.
Tim McQuiston has
been trying to calculate the relative costs of producing electricity by
different systems, but the recent vote in Newark has him thinking about
something else entirely.
Tim McQuiston has been thinking that when it comes to deciding how much to charge consumers – at the pump so to speak – gasoline and health care may have more in common than you’d think.
As editor of Vermont Business Magazine, commentator Tim McQuiston has been especially interested to hear what the Post-Vermont-Yankee Task Force is saying about the potential economic impact of closing the aging nuclear facility.
Vermont Business Magazine editor and commentator Tim McQuiston
suggests that the best source of funding for the repair and maintenance
of our roads and bridges may in fact be found at the neighborhood gas
pump.
Commentator Tim McQuiston sees a silver lining in the recent rash of embezzlement cases – because the perpetrators are being sent to jail. This should help to make someone think twice before sticking their hand in the till.
Whatever the outcome of the legal dispute between Entergy and the State
of Vermont about the future of Vermont Yankee, commentator Tim McQuiston
points out that some type of ongoing, practical relationship is
unavoidable.
Commentator Tim McQuiston says that the question of whether to build – and potentially rebuild – in a flood plain, is one that people have been asking themselves for thousands of years.