Now hear this: The entire “state of Vermont — and its charm — is threatened by a corporate There are 10 other sites on this year’s list, including Nine Mile Canyon in Utah, but “Vermont Meantime, Wal-Mart keeps The company isn’t being accused of “doing anything illegal or anything unusual in the Now hear this: The entire “state of Vermont — and its charm — is threatened by a corporate behemoth, a nonprofit preservation group warned on Monday,” The Associated Press reports. “The alleged culprit: Wal-Mart.” Because of plans for several new Wal-Mart Supercenters across the state, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has placed the entire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-be","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbehemoth, a nonprofit preservation group warned on Monday,” The Associated Press reports.
\nalleged culprit: Wal-Mart.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> <\/P>
\nBecause of plans for several new Wal-Mart Supercenters across the state, the
\nNational Trust for Historic Preservation has placed the entire state of Vermont on its 2004 list of
\nthe most endangered historic places in the United States.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\nis the only state ever to make the annual list in its entirety.”<\/P>
\n
\nNew York Times that “Wal-Mart Stores collected well over $1
\nbillion<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> <\/FONT><\/EM>in state and
\nlocal government subsidies during its decades-long expansion from a regional discount chain to
\nthe world’s largest retailer, according to a report scheduled to be released today by a group that
\nmonitors job-subsidy programs.”<\/P>
\n
\ncorporate world.” After all, taxpayer handouts to huge companies with equally huge governmental
\ninfluence are just one of the many time-honored practices in the U.S. corporate welfare
\nsystem.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"