Mar 2-8, 2011
The Adventures of James Kochalka, Vermont’s First Cartoonist Laureate; Is the Party Over For VT’s Progressives?; Does VT Have a First Lady?
Commuting on Snowshoes: Ah, March in Vermont
***UPDATED below at 5:00 p.m. ***and UPDATED AGAIN at 7:25 a.m. Tuesday Even by this winter’s snowy standards, this snowstorm is a doozy. The National Weather Service office in South Burlington has received just short of two feet of snow — enough, already, to put this among the top five snowstorms on record. The snow…
Live Church Street Webcam of Snowstorm
Free Videos by Ustream.TV The wild winter snowstorm that shut down most of the state this morning seems to be winding down. Check out this live video feed from Church Street in Burlington, courtesy of Kevin Hurley from Polaris MediaWorks.
Pizzigallis and Housing Groups Sign Deal to Preserve Affordable Housing
It’s official: The Pizzigallis have signed off on the necessary purchase and sales agreements to sell affordable housing units at Wharf Lane and Bobbin Mill to the Burlington Housing Authority and Vermont Housing Finance Agency. Angelo Pizzagalli signed the two purchase and sales agreements today on behalf of the three Pizzigalli brothers with ownership interests…
Viva La Bernie! Sanderista Revolution Turns 30
March 2011 is the 30th anniversary of Bernie’s historic mayoral win in Burlington.
7 Questions For: George Eighmey, Oregon Right-To-Die Expert
George Eighmey caught a red-eye flight from Portland, Oregon to Burlington on Wednesday to bring this message to Vermonters: Don’t believe the myths. A “death with dignity” law will not result in the euthanizing of the disabled, the depressed or any other vulnerable population. It hasn’t happened in Oregon. It wouldn’t happen here. Eighmey (pictured),…
Salmon to Launch Exploratory Committee for Senate Run
* updated – Progressives call on Salmon to resign * * updated – Democrats call on Salmon to resign * After months of speculation, Auditor Tom Salmon announced late today that he is setting up an exploratory committee to help him decide whether to run for U.S. Senate against incumbent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Salmon…
Supreme Court Denies ‘Personal Privacy’ to Corporations
This week the U.S. Supreme Court denied AT&T’s effort to have the term “personal privacy” extend to Freedom of Information Act requests involving its corporate personhood. In AT&T v. the Federal Communications Commission, AT&T argued that the FCC should keep secret all records about the telecom giant gathered during an investigation into AT&T’s participation in…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again While arguing with the mother of their 4-year-old son at her apartment in St. Clair Shores, Mich., Antonio Owens, 27, “grabbed a kitchen knife and said he is going to cut the gas line and burn down the place,” police Detective James Wagner reported. “He tried to get the stove away from…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. So for instance, if you’re the United States government and you invade and occupy Afghanistan in order to wipe out al-Qaeda, it’s not too bright to continue fighting and…
Man-Child vs. World
The righteously awesome adventures of James Kochalka, Vermont’s first cartoonist laureate
Sarah Wallis, Sarah Wallis
(Self-released, CD) I know I’ve mentioned this before, so pardon me if I sound like a broken record here. But Vermont is blessed with a startling number of elite, young female songwriters and performers. From the obvious names such as Grace Potter and Anaïs Mitchell to on-the-cusp chanteuses such as Myra Flynn, Maryse Smith and…
WTF: Does Vermont have a first lady or not?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask…
Out of Darkness
Book review: The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
Going With the Flow
Art Review: Cameron Davis and Shelley Warren, 215 College Gallery
Letters to the Editor
Confidential Correspondence? Thank you to Andy Bromage for his excellent article raising questions and concerns that need to be addressed before moving women inmates from Northwest Correctional Facility to the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington [“Will VT’s Female Inmates Be Better Off in South Burlington?” February 23]. Although he is correct in stating…
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Ham-Con: The Vermont Ham Radio Convention [214]
2/26/11: Amateur radio buffs come together for a morning of networking, flea market shopping and demos at Ham-Con: The Vermont Ham Radio Convention. Tune in to learn more about this early form of communication which predates cells phones and the internet. Music: Deep Soda, Pose Dead – Collected & Destroyed Vol. 2, “Bastone Method” (Roger…
Town Meeting Day 2011 Live Blog
UPDATE (3/1 at 9:45 p.m.): Thanks for joining us for tonight’s live blog and chat. We had as many as 50 people following along as results and updates from around the state came in. Thanks, too, to our friends at Channel 17 for their coverage. [Ed. clarification: That’s “50 people at a time” — nearly…
