The Race Track. It’s called the Malone International Raceway and Entertainment Park. (MIREP, for short.) Owned by former state police BCI officer John “Chick” Fountain. Located next to the Market Barn and Bokie’s Drive-In. Technically it’s in the Town of Malone, although literally it’s on the doorstep of the Village of Malone. The racetrack was approved […]
—Timothy Egan, NY Times ©Peter Nicholson The following editorial appeared in the NY Times 6/25/08, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Timothy Egan. RiverCityMalone thinks it’s worth reading—the Editor. Anyone who lived on the West Coast during the phony energy crisis of 2000 and 2001 cannot help thinking of Texas and two of its worst products—Enron
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—Op-Ed by Calvin Luther Martin Twenty dollars. That’s all she had in the house. Twenty for her family of five children and husband. She and her husband were laid off in late fall, when new home construction tanked. Now the unemployment checks are about to run out, and today they are down to their last
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—Wendy Todd, Maine The following was written June 6, 2008 to the residents of the Town of Freedom, Maine, by a lady named Wendy Todd. Wendy and her family live in the shadow of a windfarm in Mars Hill, Maine. The letter was published in a Maine publication called Village Soup, and can be read online by clicking here.
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