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LOOKING FORWARD
APRIL 09-16, 2014 VOL.19 NO.32
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he U.S. Supreme Court deregulates campaign spending. Legislators wrangle over the minimum wage. Vermont Treasurer Beth Pearce promotes Smart Money Week. The nation presumably observes Financial Literacy Month. And, hey, taxes are due! No better time to compile our annual issue on the stuff that “makes the world go ’round.” In it, we consider New Americans sending remittances to relatives back “home”; visit Winooski businesses who aim to reignite a textile industry; and talk with the “pledge drive guru” at VPR. We find out how right-brain artists can learn left-brain financial savvy. We send a pair of bargain-hunting reporters thrift shopping, and we even learn about early Vermont banks and “coppers.” A-yup, that was 18th-century money, honey.
We may have ordered too many bags this season...
COLUMNS + REVIEWS
Feeding Families From Afar: Accounting for Vermont’s Remittances BY KEVIN J. KELLEY
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Hemp Rising: Farmers Gear Up to Cultivate a New Crop — If They Can Get the Seeds BY KATHRYN FLAGG
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Deadline Drama A Clockwork Orange Chimes in Middlebury
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BY PAMELA POLSTON
Food: Seven Days takes a bite out of Vermont’s newest chocolates
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Music: Four more local albums you probably haven’t heard BY DAN BOLLES
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CLEAN-UP CURRENCY Does the gov’s lake plan float?
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FACTORY 450 TEES OFF
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A textile collective forms in Winooski
CHEAP THRILLS
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A pair of reporters goes thrifting
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Theater: The Spitfire Grill, Northern Stage BY ALEX BROWN
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The Art of Success
Money: Artists draw conclusions about creativity and financial savvy BY PAMELA POLSTON
BY MARGOT HARRISON
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Mission: Economical
Money: Seven Days reporters scour the area’s thrift stores BY XIAN CHIANG-WAREN AND ETHAN DE SEIFE
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Burlington Writers Workshop Releases New Anthology
Money: Once again, a textile industry takes shape in Winooski BY KATHRYN FLAGG
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Fair Game POLITICS Work JOBS WTF CULTURE Side Dishes FOOD Soundbites MUSIC Album Reviews Art Review Movie Reviews Ask Athena SEX
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Early-Morning Helicopter Raid: A Wake-Up Call for Winooski?
Poet Leland Kinsey Is Winter Ready
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