I was just reading an AP story about Bush’s new Chief of Staff, Joshua Bolten. It talks about his task of putting together a new team for the President.
One of the jobs that are already open is domestic policy advisor. I am not exactly sure what a domestic policy advisor does, but if [...]
From the Burlington Free Press today:
The Burlington City Council has scheduled a public hearing for tonight on its spending plan for more than $1.4 million in federal development and housing funds.
Members of the public can address the council about community needs and about the spending recommendations for the 2006 Community Development Block Grant.
In [...]
She’s Right, the channel 17 show, is on this Friday, live @ 5:25. My guest will be former State Representative Frank Mazur. I am really looking forward to it.
I am so not able to get into talking about politics today. Maybe it is because I am exhausted from a busy holiday weekend. Maybe it is [...]
Now that Mayor Kiss is starting to outline his agenda, many fiscal conservatives are beginning to wonder what the Kiss administration will hold for Burlington’s financial future. Will he be able to solve our budget woes, as he suggested during the campaign, or will he further increase them in an attempt to fund the [...]
As I was doing my afternoon blog reading, I found a couple of things I wanted to share with yous guys.
Vermont Hum is a fun site that has little blurbs of news and commentary. And a Five Corners Update of what the blogger was able to accomplish while waiting in traffic at the five corners [...]
Yesterday, the Vermont Senate Finance committee struggled to figure out how to pay for the Senate’s plan to expand government subsidized health insurance. You can read the BFP coverage of it here.
They decided employers would be assessed a fee for all workers who aren’t provided health insurance — whether they are full-time or part-time. [...]
My two-and-a-half-year-old son has these preschool action figures of Spiderman and Doc Ock (or Octor Doctopus, as he calls it). My husband hates playing Doc Ock because…well, see for yourself.
I thought this was interesting. It’s a story about how most people are growing tired of partisan bickering. It talks about the potential for a strong third-party candidate to emerge victorious.
This is not the first time there has been a story about this being good timing for a viable third-party candidate. Cal Thomas [...]
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Here is an interesting piece from the New Hampshire Union Leader that I found in the Vermont Education Report. VER is a free e-mail newsletter from Vermonter’s for a Better Education. You can sign up to receive it or look at past issues at their website: http://www.schoolreport.com/.
Basically, it says that Vermont spends $2,268 more per [...]
Do you know what today is? It’s the 100th day of the year. I thought that was neat. I don’t know why. For some reason, people seem to be preoccupied with milestones. Like the fact that thirty years ago today, I was born. My husband stayed home from work and had a really nice party [...]
