Suzi Wizowaty

This is not the first time an expert panel has generated recommendations that contradict earlier recommendations. Medicine is as much an art as a science--if not more--and new information should spark a re-evaluation of current practice.

NYT health writer Gina Kolata wrote a useful, brief history (Nov. 21) of medicine's conflicted relationship with mammograms. (more…)

Since Doug Racine was in Thailand during tonight's Democratic fundraiser in Barre, at which all the gubernatorial candidates were invited to speak, I was asked to represent him. Here is what I said:

[After my thank yous...]

For as long as I’ve known him, Doug has stood resolutely for fairness and justice, to me the most important principles that guide government. Throughout (more…)

Some have asked me how it happens that the legislature has any authority over Vermont Yankee (VY). With thanks to Tony Klein, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, and John Greenberg, independent policy analyst, here's a thumbnail sketch of that history. (Any errors are mine alone.)

Vermont law requires a positive legislative vote for the construction of any new nuclear power plant as well as for any expansion of on-site nuclear waste storage. In the late 1960s, (more…)