“Most importantly, what this shows is what a lot of us have been saying all along: This was not a crisis spinning out of control. The United States wasn’t getting ready to preemptively attack North Korea. That maximum pressure, it was the right policy, and the president was right to stick with it.”
On Tuesday, voters in Bennington approved a $12.9 million municipal budget, said no to a mayoral form of government, and re-elected incumbents Jim Carroll and Donald Campbell to the Selectboard, among other items.
Mayor Miro Weinberger wins re-election, 72 percent of residents vote to approve $85 million school budget with 8 percent property tax increase, and voters say yes to more climate action and advising funding for affordable housing.
“If that were the only item on the ballot, then you would get almost 95 percent support. But look at the curve ball that was thrown.” Question 6 passed on Tuesday with 55 percent of the vote.
“I represent a ward that definitely is divided on this question. There is a very strong camp of individuals who really are opposed to … a military presence at all, and then there’s another group of people who really want to have a military presence at the airport.”
“When the results of this election are tallied, a letter will go to the secretary of the Air Force, and the secretary of the Air Force will accept it and place it on file. The F-35s are coming.”
In this episode of Vote for Vermont, co-hosts Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley interview Dean George about the process of getting inmates ready for parole hearings and helping them transition back into the workforce and community.
In this episode of Vote for Vermont, co-hosts Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley speak with Ed Stanak to discuss wind development’s exemption from Act 250 environmental impact assessments.
In the wake of one of the country’s most deadly school shootings, Americans are engaged in a heated debate over the Second Amendment. NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch went face-to-face with Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel in a CNN “town hall debate” on guns.
Eventually, Anderson said, the boy identified with his biological sex, and those who cared for him prevented what could have been serious damage to his organs and years of medication that would have stopped his body from fully growing.
In this episode of Vote for Vermont, co-hosts Pat McDonald and Ben Kinsley interview Wilton to catch up on Vermont’s agriculture economy and learn more about the state’s relationship with the U.S. Farm Service Agency.
That’s the lowest black unemployment has been since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking unemployment in 1972.