Who won and lost the week in Vermont news and politics?
The answer lies below in the Scoreboard for the week ending Friday, June 14:
Winners:
Ken Picard — More than a week after the Seven Days reporter (disclosure: his desk is 10 feet away from mine!) broke a story about prostitution in Chittenden County massage parlors, local law enforcement and the rest of the media are finally catching up. Runner-up losers: The “johns” who’ve continued to frequent Harmony Health Spa since and got busted by the fuzz Wednesday. What’s the matter? Those dudes don’t read Seven Days?!
Queen City cyclists — You better pull over for this one: If Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger gets his way, the city’s next Department of Public Works chief will be… a bike geek. What does Local Motion’s Chapin Spencer know about plowing snow and filling potholes? We’ll find out soon enough.
Backcountry skiers — Good news this week for the “old goats” who tear up the woods in the Bolton backcountry. The gnar will be shred-able in perpetuity thanks to a million-dollar fundraising effort led by the Vermont Land Trust and funded in part by the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board.
More after the break…
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