It's hard to take gun rights folks like Mr. Mazza seriously. He sounds like a whiny kid who has had his candy taken away. I'd be open to listening to his views but when they come with references like "ding dong" I just can't give much credibility to his other comments.
This is a challenging situation. If future board members want to question Mr. Obeng's performance as Superintendent, will anyone dare?
"Cray labeled the letter to Wilson 'an unfortunate distraction' and irrelevant."
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And this is who we are supposed to believe will care for and be respectful to the community in how the F-35 is operated (such as flight times (night flights?), takeoff and landing patterns, and afterburner use)?
Yea right! Once the jets are here the community members are done for. They will have no voice, figuratively and literally as they are drowned out by noise 4x louder than the current F-16s.
"at least 11 drivers involved in fatal Vermont wrecks this year tested positive for marijuana"
People have already pointed out the huge problem with this data, but let's assume that marijuana impairment was a factor in those crashes. Then clearly the current system of prohibition is not working! As of next summer, Vermonters will be able to take a quick drive down to MA to legally purchase cannabis products in a retail store. So these public officials who clearly have zero personal experience with marijuana need to pull their heads out of the sand!
Gov. Scott is proving to be an exceptionally ineffective leader.
He declines to weigh in on marijuana legislation until almost literally the last minute when it was too late for his input to be considered during the legislature's regular session. But he encourages the legislature to go back to work on the bill, and engages with them over the last few weeks, and they work hard and come to an agreement on a bill, but all for naught! What was the point of all this if he wasn't even going to ask Republican leadership (his own party!) to simply vote to suspend the rules so that the bill that HE supports could get passed?
What a waste of time and energy by so many hard working people. This is poor leadership at its finest.
I wouldn't play up the "former funeral home" thing too much! Those are some nasty chemicals that were used in that building. A fomer employee died because of exposure to the chemicals in that building. http://caselaw.findlaw.com/vt-supreme-cour…
Re: “Emery Keeps South Burlington Council Seat; Massive School Bond Fails”
What was City leadership thinking with the $200M+ proposed new schools? Not only did that proposal fail (no surprise there), but now the school budget failed because the voters don't trust the leadership when it comes to fiscal responsibility. Now the SB residents get to endure the tortuous process of trying to pass a new school budget which only divides the community in so many ways and brings out the worst in everyone. How did City leadership not see this coming?
P.S. - how much was spent on the plans for the new schools?