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BENNINGTON - Vermont Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin laid out a string of priorities for the upcoming legislative session Tuesday that will require significant cooperation from the incoming Obama administration.
BENNINGTON - Vermont Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin laid out a string of priorities for the upcoming legislative session Tuesday that will require significant cooperation from the incoming Obama administration.
Don’t expect a love-in at this week’s forum on the relationship between the Democratic and Progressive parties in Vermont. Despite the conciliatory gestures likely to be made by the four panelists at the December 4 event, the two parties appear determined to maintain separate, and sometimes antagonistic, identities. read more
MONTPELIER -- It was the human eye versus optical scanners Tuesday as state voting officials organized a by-hand recount of election results from four towns as part of a random audit of vote-counting machines. ... - By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau
The secretary of state's office will conduct a random audit of last month's election results in four Vermont towns.
Monday, December 1 Nearly a month ago, Obama swept Vermont and the nation to became president-elect. That was the big story. Meanwhile, the Vermont press chose to largely ignore an interesting and unusual aspect of this year's gubernatorial contest — the fact that an independent candidate, Anthony Pollina, nudged past a high profile Democratic to place second behind front-runner
KIDS Consortium is holding a civic engagement and service-learning policy seminar Thursday for 100 educational leaders from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine and Vermont. On the heels of the 2008 election in which 23 million young Americans voted, schools across New England are looking at educational strategies that engage young people as active problem-solvers in their communities. Co-sponsors ...
YAHOO! search Nearly a month ago, Obama swept Vermont and the nation to became president-elect. That was the big story.
By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — By way of a co-applicant, the Lake Champlain Byway Council, the city of Vergennes recently received a $376,300 grant to finish a key element that was originally the centerpiece of a project estimated at $203,000 in 2002 — a stairway down to Otter Creek from Main Street. The federal National Scenic Byways grant was funneled to the city by the Vermont Agency of ...
By JOHN FLOWERS SHOREHAM — Shoreham residents on Wednesday, Dec. 3, will cast ballots on a the first comprehensive rewrite of the community’s zoning regulations in two decades. Shoreham Planning Commission member Glenn Symon said the new rules place the community in compliance with Chapter 117, the state law that governs Vermont’s planning and zoning enabling statutes. But the proposed ...
Now that the election is behind us it is time for me to deliver an apology to the Vermont Agency of Transportation. It was during the campaign that on two separate occasions the AOT found it necessary to remove four campaign signs from my front lawn.
