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As our December 6th meeting in Montpelier begins, down the street another meeting will end - the meeting of the House Democrats that will choose their new leadership. For Speaker, of course, the choice is down to two: Mark Larson and Shap Smith, with Smith the likeliest winner. After going back and forth (largely around concerns about his potential vulnerability in the district), I've decided to j...
Green Mountain Daily - 2:50 p.m.
2 days now until our upcoming strategy/brainstorming session (in Montpelier this Saturday, from 1-3 - I'll post and email a map later today) among new media activists and other "Democratic stakeholders." Again, if you plan on coming, please RSVP to (jodum at poetworld.net) as this is not a public forum per se - its a working meeting with the goal of brainstorming some specific strategies and movin...
Green Mountain Daily - 6:43 a.m.
Photo by Garth Helland. Lots of Vermont pond owners grow fish under the ice, using aeration to oxygenate the crop. But windmill aeration presents a few challenges -- to moose! ...
Vermont Commons - Wed 7:29 a.m. - 3 clicks 
From Twitterings by Townsend , the daily blog of the executive editor of the Burlington Free Press, recounting a visit to the editorial board by Peter Shumlin: Since all meetings of the Free Press editorial board are on the record, we were told but only one area "where the state made promises it cannot keep: Catamout Health is a wonder program we cannot afford...I am not saying I am going ou...
Green Mountain Daily - Tue 8:52 p.m. - 3 clicks
Pete Miss : (Get it? Like "Peat Moss" Get it? Oh... never mind.) Got my Peter's scrambled the other day. It wasn't Peter Shumlin who let Matt Dunne's gas guzzler tax wallow in Senatorial oblivion, it was Peter Welch . Shumlin II: The Return hadn't come to the Montpelier theater yet. Woops. Sorry Pete. Don't mean to make you feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of Vermont politics. I promise ...
Green Mountain Daily - Tue 3:10 p.m. - 5 clicks
In 1973, when the CIA got wind of the revelations that would expose its decades-long program into mind control experiments, then-CIA Director Richard Helms, and Sidney Gottlieb, head of the Agency's Technical Services Division, got together to destroy all the files they could find on MKULTRA and related programs. These programs consisted of experiments on human subjects on isolation, sensory depr...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Mon 1:04 p.m. - 4 clicks
Editor's Note: Big kudos to Theo Talcott for sending us this inspired account. “I feel an intense urgency to do this work, and I hear that all over the world” said Naresh Giagrande, one of the founders of the Transition Town movement in the UK. Indeed, on that Nov. 24th evening at Montpellier’s Unitarian Church, one could feel that positive, encouraging, ready-to-go energy. It was an ins...
Vermont Commons - Mon 8:28 a.m. - 3 clicks
From VPR: The chairman of the Vermont Senate's Judiciary Committee says lawmakers may want to consider expanding the power of legislative committees to subpoena witnesses and take testimony under oath. Senator Richard Sears says his panel was frustrated at times in recent months during hearings looking into how Vermont responds to sex crimes against children... ...Legislative committees curr...
Green Mountain Daily - Mon 5:44 a.m. - 6 clicks
by Dana Dwinell-Yardley It's December 1. The snow is piling up outside as I type. Yesterday afternoon I finally hung up my commuter bicycle in the shed. My bike served me well from April to October, as we made the trek to work from Montpelier to Northfield, 10.5 miles away. Despite only working in Northfield one or two days a week, I pedaled more than 500 miles this summer! read more ...
Vermont Commons - Sun 11:45 p.m. - 9 clicks
(Updated below) I'm putting together a list of important books related to the world's energy situation, its consequences, and what to do about it for inclusion in my next column in the Times Argus and Rutland Herald . Any suggestions? If so, please leave them in comments. Here's a preliminary list (in no particular order) compiled through random notes scribbled down. read more ...
Vermont Commons - Sun 7:21 p.m. - 9 clicks
Um, I don't want to alarm anyone, but this article seem important. Our lead story by Chris Martenson in this issue of the Vermont Commons news journal makes a clear case that the U.S. government is insolvent. I guess ABC News agrees. read more ...
Vermont Commons - Sun 7:01 p.m. - 11 clicks
If you want to boil an egg, you can heat the water on a stove and put the egg in the hot water. Or you can take the egg to a hot spring and put the egg in the hot spring. Not everybody has a hot spring like we once did but there are lots of them around. Or you can drill for hot water like we and all our neighbors do for cold water. Some people think drilling is bad. &nbs...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Fri 7:51 a.m. - 20 clicks
For posterity’s sake, I just wanted to link to this article which appeared on the front page of the Burlington Free Press on Saturday, November 1st, 2008… photo by Ryan Mercer, Burlington Free Press With three days to go before the election, there are plenty of pundits now willing to predict Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will [...]...
What's the Point? - Nov 6 - 12 clicks
Vt. Governor: Anthony Pollina Vt. Lieutenant Governor: Ben Mitchell Vt. State Representative (Hartland–West Windsor): John Bartholomew U.S. Representative (Vt.): Peter Welch ...
Kirby Mountain - Nov 3 - 8 clicks
