The news of the week may turn out to be today’s release of a new Air Force report weighing the relative impact of basing F-35 fighter jets in Burlington and elsewhere. But, um, we haven’t had a chance yet to read all 3000 pages, so we’ll wait for the dust to settle before we throw it in our weekly list of winners and losers in Vermont news and politics.
Don’t worry. There are still plenty of contenders for this week’s Scoreboard. Without further ado, here it is for the week ending Friday, May 31:
Winners:
AFSCME — In its fight to represent 7000 Vermont homecare workers, AFSCME got out ahead of the SEIU this week with a nice little PR stunt: marching 4000 signatures down to the Vermont Labor Relations Board to preemptively file for a yet-to-be-scheduled election. That provided reporters with an AFSCME-centered hook to write about what could become an interesting union-on-union fight.
Steve Goodkind — The iconic Burlington Public Works director announced this week he’s retiring 32 years after becoming then-mayor Bernie Sanders’ first City Hall hire. That means plenty more backwoods skiing, motorcycle touring and banjo pickin’ for the dude, which definitely earns him a spot on our list of winners.
Ties and losers after the break…
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