Charity on March 4th, 2008

Well, not quite, but I do have a couple of comments.
First, the Moran Redevelopment passed! Woo-hoo!
I totally supported this plan. In an ideal world, the city would have sold the property to a developer and washed its hands of the whole thing (and watched the tax dollars roll in once it was developed). [...]

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Charity on March 4th, 2008

Channel 17 is live on the air tonight, March 4th at 7:30 with election results, interviews with candidates, video of ballot issues, exit interviews from the polling places and more. If you can’t get us on TV, tune into our Live stream at www.channel17.org

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Charity on March 4th, 2008

Burlington Politics is updated with a post about voting this morning.

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Charity on March 3rd, 2008

TIME has an entertaining article about the Vermont primary.
Thomas Naylor, a former Duke economics professor who now leads the state’s fledgling secession movement, John McLaughry, a former state legislator and Reagan administration advisor who runs the free-market Ethan Allen Institute, and University of Vermont political science professor Garrison Nelson are featured.
Here a few choice quotes [...]

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Charity on March 3rd, 2008

I find it interesting that the polls show Barack Obama with an advantage over Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head with John McCain.
I think that Sen. Obama would be the easier candidate to beat.
Obama has a sort of rock star appeal that has brought him large numbers of new votes, many of them young.
I question whether [...]

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Charity on March 2nd, 2008

The Burlington Politics page is updated with my thoughts about the school budget vote.

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