Residents opposed taking steps to create a mayoral system in a 1,722-529 vote Tuesday. A ballot article asked voters if the Select Board should be advised to amend the town charter to move from a town manager system to a mayoral structure.
Residents of Bennington shot down four local option tax proposals on retail sales, rooms, meals and alcohol, and elected a newcomer for one of two open Selectboard seats.
Super Tuesday results show the race for the Democratic presidential nomination will come down to former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, something former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg realized as he announced Wednesday he was dropping out.
Prior to delivering his own comments Tuesday at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders received full-throated support from Vermont politicians Attorney General TJ Donovan and State Treasurer Beth Pearce.
Town Meeting 2020 election night results for Burlington featured changes to City Council as well as four articles, all of which passed.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., won Colorado and California Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday. A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders claimed 36.2 percent of the vote in Colorado, and about 33 percent in California.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will win Super Tuesday primaries in Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, strengthening his position in the South. He’s also the projected winner in Oklahoma. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders won his home state of Vermont as well as Colorado, according to early projections.
I find that under current leadership in Montpelier politics and ideology sometimes dominate reality. Policies are formed based on pre-determined political promises and rhetoric, rather than developed out of an open examination of the facts and evidence surrounding a particular problem.
It is quite demoralizing to honest taxpayers to constantly hear and read about how embezzlers can obtain $20,000 or $2 million illegally and get off tax-free.
An episode of the Vermont Natural Resources Council “Climate Dispatch” posted Friday features Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman and highlights a handful of climate bills, including one that would accelerate the transition towards green energy for Vermont power utilities.
Over the past 30 years of arguing for parental choice in education, I could always count on a left wing opponent, usually an ally of the teachers union, saying “Rich people can get their children to school, but poor people can’t afford transportation and will be left out.”
The remaining Democratic presidential candidates will be chasing more than 1,600 delegates on Super Tuesday as voters in 14 states and one American territory make their decisions.