What to look for in this week’s dead-tree edition of Seven Days…
- Yesterday, Kathryn Flagg wrote a post about the new “outdoor classroom” at Burlington’s Sustainability Academy. This week she writes more about the school’s new changes — both cosmetic and otherwise.
- The lawyer representing anti-abortion protesters in a lawsuit against Burlington’s no-protest zone around reproductive health clinics has a history of litigating “buffer zone” cases around the country.
- More and more Progressives are running for office with both a “P” and a “D” next to their names. Are “fusion” candidates good for the future of the state’s third party?
- This week in “Fair Game”: The election ad blitz has begun, and it’s led by conservative super PAC Vermonters First. Plus, Senate Democrats won’t support David Zuckerman, Bernie makes waves in New Hampshire, and Jay Peak is set to announce more EB-5 funded projects.
One final note: Friends and family of former VTDigger.org reporter Alan Panebaker, who died in a kayaking accident last week, will hold a celebration of his life at Eagle Park in Bristol this Saturday at 2 p.m. Donations can be made in Panebaker’s name to American Whitewater, where he last worked, at P.O. Box 1540, Cullowhee, NC 28723.
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In today’s Fair Game: “While Zuckerman says the Dems are free to do as they please, he says he’s been working hard to mend partisan fences.”
Suddenly interested in mending fences (because he needs Dem support) after an entire political career spent publicly bashing Democrats??? After winning his first House seat by needlessly running against ultraLeftist Sandy Baird, claiming that she was not Leftist enough?
“Perkinson observes, “People often tend to fight the hardest over what matters the least.—
That’s ironically truthful, coming from one of the most notoriously vocal partisan attack dogs in Vermont. If a Republican so much as accidentally drops a pencil, Perkinson immediately issues a press release calling for an investigation of their “outrageous partisan conservative pencil-dropping conspiracy to undermine democracy and eat babies.”
“I can’t find a Progressive in the state legislature who’s significantly
further to the left than I am on most issues,†says state Sen. Phil
Baruth, a Chittenden County Democrat”
Wow, not something to be proud of. I’m the most extreme left wing legislator in the most extreme leftist state of the union…. not something to be proud of at all….