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Arts + Life
Allen Gilbert Wants You … to Hold Government Accountable
Originally published April 10, 2013. Allen Gilbert has been thinking a lot about drones lately. Not the ones that rain Hellfire missiles on militants… -
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Arts + Life
The Adviser
Dick Mazza isn’t a cigar-chomping political party boss. And, while he does have a “back room,” it isn’t smoke filled. The 71-year-old state senator… -
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News + Opinion
Totally Looks Like: Vermont Politics Edition
We interrupt our mostly serious political coverage to bring you this totally ridiculous waste of time. One of my favorite sites on the World Wide… -
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News + Opinion
Troubles Mount for a Winooski Cop With a Checkered Past
Local Matters
When Winooski Police Corporal Jason Nokes is arraigned on Thursday, a judge will hear about the encounter that led the cop to shoot a… -
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News + Opinion
Burlington Deputy Police Chief Andi Higbee Arrested for DUI
Updated below with comment from Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling and Vermont State Police spokesperson Stephanie Dasaro. Burlington's deputy police chief was allegedly caught in… -
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News + Opinion
This Week's Issue: The Adirondack Issue
You know there's, like, a whole world on the other side of Lake Champlain, right? Where you can canoe, eat, get an Airstream refurbished, eat, fight… -
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News + Opinion
Why Prosecutors Asked a Grand Jury Whether to Charge a Winooski Cop
Local Matters
The decision to use a grand jury to bring criminal charges against Winooski Police Corporal Jason Nokes last week wasn’t just an unusual legal… -
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News + Opinion
Mary Alice McKenzie Wants to Talk About Gangs. Is Burlington Ready to Listen?
Local Matters
Does Burlington have a gang problem? Certainly nothing like the one turning Chicago’s neighborhoods into urban battlefields this summer. But Mary Alice McKenzie, executive… -
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News + Opinion
ICE Halts Deportation of Migrant Activist Danilo Lopez — For Now
Danilo Lopez, the Mexican farm worker who became a cause célèbre for Vermont's undocumented farm laborers, won a reprieve in his deportation case today. U.S.… -
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News + Opinion
This Week's Issue: Welcome to Fabulous Newport ... Vermont!
Here's what's news in this week's print edition of your friendly neighborhood weekly, Seven Days: For our cover story, Megan James and Corin Hirsch spent… -
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News + Opinion
This Week's Issue: Seven Days' First Cartoon Issue
Notice anything different about Seven Days' print edition this week? There are a lot fewer words — and a lot more cartoons. This week, we… -
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News + Opinion
Danilo Lopez, Migrant on a Mission
Local Matters
Jen Sorensen has published comics in the Progressive, Ms. Magazine, Daily Kos, NPR.org, Politico, AlterNet, LA Times and numerous alternative newspapers nationwide, including Seven… -
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News + Opinion
Former Presidential Candidate Spends Big on Full-Page — and Kooky — Ads
Readers of the Burlington Free Press opened their papers today to find a head-scratcher of an ad at the center of the A section. Across… -
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News + Opinion
This Week's Issue: We Go Ape for Animals!
Pick up this week's print issue of Seven Days and behold .... animals! Cute. Fuzzy. Ridiculously Adorable. Animals. But there's still plenty of news —… -
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News + Opinion
Bears, Dogs and Hogs — Oh, My! Animal-Themed Laws Enacted in 2013
Local Matters
The Vermont Legislature went hog wild on animal-related laws in 2013. Or maybe it was wild hog. The Sportsmen’s Act of 2013, a sweeping… -
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News + Opinion
Leahy Petitions Homeland Security Secretary on Behalf of Undocumented Farmworker Activist
. Vermont's most powerful politician has gone to bat for Danilo Lopez, the 23-year-old migrant farmworker activist fighting deportation back to Mexico. In a letter… -
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News + Opinion
This Week's Issue: Peter Shumlin Inc., State Police Ink — and More
Here's the news from this week's issue of Seven Days, on newsstands and beer-soaked bars now: In our cover story, the former Brandon Training School… -
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News + Opinion
Sanders and Welch Go to Bat for Migrant Farmworker Facing Deportation; Leahy Still Noncommittal
Mexican farmworker leader Danilo Lopez has scored two high-profile supporters in his campaign to fight deportation and stay in Vermont. On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders… -
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News + Opinion
Williston Landlord Charged With Allowing Prostitution, Customers May Be Identified in Court
Police have finally taken action against one of the Asian massage parlors outed by Seven Days for prostitution and possible human trafficking. On Thursday… -
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News + Opinion
State's Attorney: Massage Parlor Women Will Not Be Prosecuted for Prostitution
Local police aren't certain how to respond to revelations that Asian women in Chittenden County massage parlors were performing sex acts for money. But one… -
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News + Opinion
This Week's Issue: Parks, Prostitution, PATRIOTs and Pipes
In this week's wood pulp-and-ink edition of Seven Days: Burlington's Parks and Recreation Department has struggled with management and morale problems for years. Can… -
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News + Opinion
Can a New Parks Director Fix Burlington's Most Dysfunctional Department?
By all outward appearances, Burlington’s public parks are clean and green — the envy of any small city in America. The infield grass at Smalley Park’s… -
News + Opinion
Shumlin Says IBM Layoffs Will Affect Vermont
Updated below with comment from IBM spokesman Gov. Peter Shumlin this morning confirmed what has been rumored for weeks: IBM is laying off workers nationwide… -
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News + Opinion
This Week's Issue: Uncovering Prostitution in Chittenden County Massage Parlors
If you read only one story in this week's issue of Seven Days — or in any Vermont newspaper, for that matter — make it… -
News + Opinion
Summer Study Committees: Legislation-in-Training or a Graveyard for Controversial Bills?
Local Matters
Davis.Sen. Peter Galbraith (D-Windham) has a nickname for the summer-study committees that keep state lawmakers busy after the legislature adjourns in May. He mockingly…
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