The Burlington Greens invite you to join them for a public screening of the documentary “American Blackout” which chronicles the recurring patterns of voter disenfranchisement from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The event is Wednesday, February 7th at 6:30 P.M. at the Euro Gourmet Market & [...]
Given that it is a whopping 5-degrees out right now (that’s excluding the wind chill of as low as 20-below), I think this is a good opportunity to point out the folly in citing the unusually warm temperatures in December as “proof” of global warming.
I am not saying here that global warming is or is [...]
Jeremy Ryan set up a discussion board for Burlington elections and stuff. It would be really great if a lot of people started using this forum for discussion.
Currently Ward 2 City Council candidate David Rogers has posted something.
Check it out.
Updated 2/5 11:16 am
As you can see, I changed my header image. What I realized later was that since the text in the image is part of the template, not the image itself, if someone happens to change the font size on their browser from the default, the header image may get cut off [...]
I had a chat with Doug Dunbebin (former City Councilor) a couple of weeks ago about the ballot question regarding a new 9/11 investigation.
I have been meaning to write something up on this, but it keeps getting put off, so I thought I would post the press release I received from the group behind the [...]
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Here is the line up for the Burlington School Commissioners races:
Ward 1 — Keith Pillsbury (incumbent, unopposed)Ward 2 — Jen Lazar (unopposed; Commissioner Erik Hoekstra is retiring)Ward 3 — Marissa Caldwell (incumbent) v. Denise FooteWard 4 — Wally Elliot (incumbent, unopposed)Ward 5 — Fred Lane (incumbent, unopposed)Ward 6 — Jurij Homziak (incumbent, unopposed)Ward 7 — [...]
I am coming up on my one-year blog-o-versary, so I thought I would share a little history of She’s Right and talk a little about where the blog is headed. (I know, I am total dork.)
She’s Right started out as a website (technically a blog, I suppose, but I was not familiar with that [...]
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Here is the Channel 17 debate schedule for Town Meeting 2007. The schedule includes, Burlington, Williston, Essex Town, and Winooski.
I’ll try to post reminders before each debate for Burlington comes up.
There is a story in the Free Press this morning about the legislative hearings on property tax.
Jim Stevens, 67, is retired, but works two part-time jobs as a mail carrier and bus driver to supplement his retirement income. He said he and his wife live on less than $24,000 a year in a home they [...]
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The She’s Right Compassionate cause for February is Prajwala.
In the beginning of January, I saw the profile of Sunitha Krishnan on PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. I highly recommend that you watch the video or read the transcript of the interview with this amazing woman.
From PBS,
Krishnan began working to combat sexual violence in what [...]
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