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Topics> Governance , Energy Nuclear power is a rigged game that lets the federal government preempt state and local governments on most issues, according to Karl Grossman, professor at the State University of New York and author of a book on the subject, Power Crazy: Is LILCO Turning Shoreham Into Ameri...
Vermont Commons - 10:09 a.m. - 7 clicks 
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) - Thu 9:43 p.m. - 11 clicks
Not only did Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy vote to further codify the USA's march to military dictatorship in the form of the NDAA, he is also the sponsor of PIPA , the Senate version of SOPA, adding censorship of the internet to his acquiescence to fascism. tags: human rights , Vermont ...
Kirby Mountain - Jan 18 - 9 clicks
House (283-136): http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2011-932 Senate (86-13): http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2011-230 More information: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:H.R.1540: tags: Vermont , anarchism ...
Kirby Mountain - Jan 4
After years of reading Kos and staying in the background, the $100 lifetime subscription and the gentle prodding of the Kos community convinced me to stop lurking and start posting. I've been in print, broadcast and online journalism around New England for more than 30 years. For the past two decades, I've been in southern Vermont -- Brattleboro to be precise. Vermont is a great place to be ...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Dec 29
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) - Dec 27
An Interview with Kirkpatrick Sale by David Kupfer Culture Change , Summer 1996 Kirkpatrick Sale has written a book on the Luddites titled Rebels Against the Future , released in paper-back in 1996 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., U.S. $13; 320 pp. DK: From where was your desire to write this historical interpretation of the Luddites born? KS: If you locate the problem as being the...
Kirby Mountain - Dec 27
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) - Dec 9 - 4 clicks
Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush and Cheney http://www.reuters.com/... (Reuters) - Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported. The nonbinding, symbolic measure, passed in Brattleboro and Marlboro in a state known for ta...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Nov 28
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) - Nov 24
(crossposted at five before chaos ) I’ve met our congressman, Peter Welch, several times, having the pleasure of interviewing him once a few years ago. He’s a nice guy, and a rather wonky, intelligent guy, too. I had this in mind as I was screaming at the radio in the car last Friday, when Welch was the guest on Vermont Edition (you can listen to the podcast here ). ...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Nov 21 - 3 clicks
His name was Josh. He was 35 years old. His fellow occupiers have described him as a proud veteran, and a good soul. Around 2:00 PM today, Josh shot himself at the Occupy Burlington encampment. He was taken to the local hospital, and was confirmed dead by a hospital spokesperson at 5:30, Eastern Standard Time. Police recovered a firearm inside of Josh's tent. Occupiers have been told that th...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Nov 10
On October 23, the Campaign for a Healthy California sponsored a presentation in Fresno about single payer healthcare for California. James Haslam, of the Vermont Workers Center, and Donna Smith, featured in Sicko , were two of the five panelists who impressed on us the importance of single payer universal health care and the grassroots effort necessary to obtain and sustain it. The Progressive...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Oct 24
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin at noon today announced that he is nominating Beth Robinson to join the five member State Supreme Court. Burlington Free Press: Beth Robinson chosen by Shumlin for Vermont Supreme Court Robinson, a respected Vermont attorney, was one of the leading strategists for the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force, the group that spearheaded the drive for marriage equal...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Oct 18
This is my first time writing on here - although I think I'm more of a photographer than a writer. I took on a project to photograph Occupy Vermont and the experience has been great. Now I'm trying to get out to New York and other rallies around the States as well. ...
DailyKos (Vermont) - Oct 17
