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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.
VERMONT CYNIC: I hope you're enjoying your time off [with Congress being out of session]. PETER WELCH: What a lot of people don't understand about this job is that even when we have a recess, we still have a large portion of work to do. It's not as though I can go out and play Frisbee.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - When Michael Arnowitt got to the polling place at City Hall last Tuesday, an assistant clerk led him to the voting booth at the end of the row, where a special phone with an oversized keypad allowed the legally blind musician to vote without needing to have the ballot read to him.
Vermont and four other states allow people with certain disabilities to vote by phone.
(AP:MONTPELIER, Vt.) Economic worries were tops in the mind of Vermont voters who chose Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain in Tuesday's presidential election, Associated Press exit poll results showed.
Tuesday's election once again puts Democrats in control of the Vermont Legislature, though the state House will see a change at the top.
MONTPELIER -- The polls had been closed for only a few minutes Tuesday night when what is among the most interesting -- and until this week nearly invisible -- political races of the year began. ... - By LOUIS PORTER Vermont Press Bureau
Nationally, Tuesday's election already is being hailed as a "transformational" day in electoral politics. ... - By PETER HIRSCHFELD Vermont Press Bureau
John McCain carried Kentucky, and Barack Obama countered with a Vermont victory as he bid to become the first black president Tuesday night, first spoils in the race for the White House. Democrats gained a Senate seat, the first of several they had in their sights in a country at war and anything but prosperous.
Vermonters flooded polling stations across the state this Election Day, drawing a close to the epic presidential campaign drama that has riveted Americans for the past 18 months. Vermont was one of the first states the media declared blue, handing President-elect Barack Obama three electoral votes early in the evening.
Montpelier, Vt., sex offender Larkin Forney finished last among 14 candidates vying for six seats in the legislature. . . . A Detroit man was hit in the shoulder by a stray bullet, unrelated to the election, as he waited to vote at an elementary school. . . . Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr struggled to crack 1 percent of in most states. . . . Vermont State Auditor Thomas Salmon, ...
