It’s election week! Here’s what’s happening in the world of Vermont politics and news this week. Got an event you want listed in next week’s calendar? Email us by Friday to submit it.

Monday, November 5

  • It’s the last day of campaigning before the big day, and the last day to request an absentee ballot (click here for more info.)
  • Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin has a light (or incomplete) schedule for today. His campaign website shows the guv honking and waving at 7:30 a.m. in Barre, “visiting businesses and walking” in Richmond at 9:30 and doing the same at Five Corners in Essex at 10:45. Full schedule.
  • Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock starts the day with a 6:30 a.m. interview on ABC 22/Fox 44, and ends at 5:30 p.m. in the Springfield “GOP Victory Office.” He’ll be on “Charlie, Ernie and Lisa” on WVMT-AM at 8 a.m. Full schedule.
  • Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott kicks off a “vote tomorrow” tour today, with the gimmicky idea of making 14 stops in each of Vermont’s 14 counties, and spending 14 minutes at each location. The lite guv starts at the ungoldly hour of 4:45 a.m. in St. Albans and finishes at 6:35 p.m. in Barre. Full schedule.
  • Republican candidate for attorney general Jack McMullen has just two stops on his schedule for today: a 2 p.m. sign wave outside the Sheraton Hotel in South Burlington, and a somewhat inexplicable 6 p.m. visit to the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. Presumably to court the all-important undecided herbalist bloc.
  • At 9 a.m., “The Mark Johnson Show” on WDEV-FM welcomes guests Howard Dean and Vermont Pundit Laureate Eric Davis. Listen live.
  • At noon, Vermont Public Radio’s topic on “Vermont Edition” is the middle class — that nebulous group politicians have been courting so hard this year. Guests are UVM economics professor Elaine McCrate and Dartmouth sociology professor Marc Dixon. Listen live.
  • Obama and Romney won’t talk about climate change, but Norwich University will. At 7:45 p.m., award-winning microbiologist Dr. Brigit Sattler gives a talk titled “Ice and Life: Living Cryosphere” about the impact of melting polar icecaps on the ecosystem.

Rest of the week after the break…

Andy Bromage was a Seven Days staff writer from 2009-2012, and the news editor from 2012-2013.