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It is not often, before I lay down for my Friday night sleep, that good news sprouts out of no-where. Yet - Today - Think Progress gave us some progressive news wonderful. Vermont is the very first state to do what is common sense and BAN Fracking (see full story ( here )). Unfortunately, in a GOP dominate world, great ice cream co...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Fri 9:51 p.m. - 15 clicks 
Topics> Activism , OWS , Health New York- Within a few hours of departing Vermont I found myself photographing in front of a hospital on Wyckoff Ave in Brooklyn. Here was a place of struggle. The drying elderly, the stutter-stepping parents, and the children that smelled ...
Vermont Commons - Tue 2:52 p.m. - 18 clicks
Topics> Activism Last night in South Burlington a presentation was given in support of placing the F35 killer jets at the Burlington airport. It was a public forum and hundreds of people turned out to speak. The first five speakers were a great promotion for secession. They consisted of representatives for Leahy, Sanders, Welch, Shuml...
Vermont Commons - Mon 8:13 p.m. - 15 clicks
Topics> Sustainability What a year it has been. If we think back to just over a year ago… perhaps 14-15 months … what of major importance has happened or changed? What had we never heard of in early 2011, yet seen emerge as an important and even world-changing event or theme of the year since? Here are a few items: - The Jap...
Vermont Commons - May 6 - 2 clicks
Topics> Activism , OWS , Arts , Theater , Music , Finance , Economics , Food&Health , Health , Food , ...
Vermont Commons - May 5
The day began as gray and drizzly. Whatever the weather, this is a big event in Vermont for progressives, not to be missed. Unions organized the event, along with VIPRG, a Vermont public interest group that supports workers' rights, single payer, and other progressive initiatives. So off we went in the trusty Millenial Falcon, our 1997 Volvo station wagon. ...
DailyKos (Vermont) - May 1 - 2 clicks
The American Wind Energy Association's WindPAC has donated the following to Vermont's congressional delegation, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission Representative Peter Welch: $1000 in 2009 Senator Patrick Leahy: $1000 in 2010, $1000 in 2011 Senator Bernie Sanders: $3500 in 2009 David and Jan Blittersdorf of Hinesburg, CEOs of NRG Systems and Earth Turbines, have do...
Kirby Mountain - Apr 25
Well, this was some most excellent news today ... Vermont Lawmakers Vote For Constitutional Amendment To Declare That Corporations Are Not People by Chris Morran, consumerist.com -- April 19, 2012 Today, Vermont's state legislature became the latest to call for an amendment to the Constitution that would overturn the controversial court ruling and declare that " money is not speec...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Apr 19 - 2 clicks
The story, as I imagine reported by Drudge: Governor Caught in Transspecies Scandal Refuses to release video Democrat Vermont governor Peter Shumlin wild, naked video romp with four bears in his secluded home outside the state's capital city, nearly ended in tragedy when one of the animals decided it had had enough of the governor's unwanted advances. ...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Apr 14
More proof that the one thing big corporations don't want is a real "Free market", not if "free markets" mean a place where consumers are given exact information on what goes into the products they can choose from. Corporations are not for "free markets", they are for fixed markets, fixed markets where corporations write their own rules and the only rule is "Let the buyer beware." To whit . ...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Apr 9
O'Keefe has once again committed voter fraud : The video, a sequel to O'Keefe's "Primary of the Living Dead" in New Hampshire, shows a Veritas agent entering various voting places around the state of Vermont, giving a different name each time . Each time, he is given a ballot without showing an ID, to his disbelief. So two states now, voter fraud. Yeah, it's a crime. UPDATE : When yo...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Mar 13 - 3 clicks
The news is still very sketchy, and as of last night it was being reported as "dozens," but according to Vermont Public Radio [ this morning ], at least 70 Vermont town meetings passed a non-binding resolution yesterday calling for our state and federal legislators to begin the process of passing an amendment to the US constitution to make it clear that corporations are not people and that mon...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Mar 7
We did it! Tonight at Town Meeting the voters in Sudbury, VT were presented with the usual list of items, including approving the school budget (we did) approving the town budget (check) electing a town clerk, treasurer, school directors, select board members (done) electing fist and second constables (did that too, though I'm not exactly sure what they do.) And then, near the end o...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Mar 6 - 3 clicks
Like so many of you, I had a personal email from Markos Moulitsas this morning asking me to vote for Rick Santorum. Like so many of you, I had heard of this idea since at least Operation Hilarity, and had made my decision; no. Not because of the Great Questions about subversion of democracy, but because Vermont is a small prize, Romney will take the scant (R) vote by 2:1, etc, etc, etc. I mean,...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Mar 6 - 7 clicks
Super Tuesday. So many states. So little time. We at CatSynth present the first of two articles to try and virtually visit as many states as we call. The first installment features Vermont, Virginia and Tennessee. There is a mixture of natural and human-made points of interest. I even get to geek out on music in this one with a visit to Memphis. Of course...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Mar 5 - 2 clicks
All right. I admit it. Mitt Romney has a point. We were mean to him. We helped Rick Santorum take away some of his delegates in Michigan. What we did was wrong. Mitt Romney is asking Rick Santorum to give back some of his delegates as a penalty for Santorum's doing what Reagan did in 1980 (going after Michigan Democrats) -- but that does not look like it's going...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Feb 29
Per Vermont's WCAX : ...She bought almost $400 worth of meat from a door-to-door salesman in 2010... "It was tough, didn't have a good flavor, didn't smell good when you cooked it," she said. The salesman came in a white refrigerated pickup truck with a logo on the side that said Steak House Steaks. Okay. So. ...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Feb 22 - 4 clicks
With Virginia's hotly-contested new anti-abortion bill expected to soon become law, cutting state aid to poor women seeking abortions and mandating that “ transvaginal ultrasounds ” be performed on women seeking abortions, Vermont is set to make an ideological shift in the other direction. ...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Feb 21 - 2 clicks
It seems that the Kos community wants Vermont to participate in a monkey-wrenching of the Vermont Republican Primary. Since Vermont has open primaries, we can vote in any party's contest without having to declare a official affiliation. But I do think it will be tough to get Vermont Democrats and Progressives to cast a vote Rick Santorum under any circumstances. But causing mischief in a pri...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Feb 15 - 2 clicks
It's time for us to take an active role in the GOP nomination process. That's right, it's time for those of us who live in open primary and caucus states— Michigan , North Dakota , Vermont and Tennessee in the next three weeks—to head out and cast a vote for Rick Santorum. Why would we do such a crazy thing? Lots of great reasons! Republican turnout has sucked, and appears to be ge...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Feb 15 - 2 clicks
Vermont's minimum-wage workers get a 31-cent raise While the federal minimum wage remains at $7.25—$2.60 an hour less (after adjusting for inflation) than it was in 1968—some states have instituted a higher minimum, or even indexed the minimum wage to inflation. In eight of those states—Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Washington—the minimum wage will go up a...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Feb 6 - 2 clicks
Per the Burlington Free Press : At the center of the campaign, Reggy explains, is Chick-fil-A's intellectual property, the phrase "EAT MOR CHIKIN." The company has used the phrase since at least 1995, Reggy writes, and owns numerous U.S. and international trademark and copyright registrations for both EAT MOR CHIKIN and for cows holding sandwich-boards reading EAT MOR CHIKIN. Now to the crux...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Feb 6 - 2 clicks
So, first of all, I was screwed up on my math for Doubling the House. In my last diary , I did a theoretical diary with New Mexico's delegation under Doubling, with 5 districts. But my math was wrong, I only had 5, it should have 6. So I'll get that out of the way and then get to the new states, Delaware and Vermont. ...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Feb 6
STATE OF VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY VERMONT STATE POLICE PRESS RELEASE VSP Door Decals Inappropriately Modified Major William Sheets, Support Services Commander, Vermont State Police – Headquarters, 802-244-8727 Waterbury, VT – 02/02/12 – Yesterday, on February 1, a member of the Vermont State Police (VSP) brought to the attention of VSP Fleet Services that some of the VSP cruis...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Feb 2
