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By Sen. Bernie Sanders, I want to take this opportunity to thank the citizens of Vermont for allowing me to continue representing them in the U.S. Senate. These are tough times for our country, and I promise to continue wo ...
Vermonters have always been independent, whether it was having their own republic (1777-1791), re-electing a Congressman while he was in jail (Matthew Lyon, 1798), or sending a Socialist to the Senate (Bernie Sanders, 1994-2 ...
BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 14 - "We are now in the midst of the fiercest and best-financed attack against Social Security in our lifetimes," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) warned today on the 77th anniversary of the most s ...
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education has reported that the number of homeless students in America has topped one million while another new report estimates that 23% of children in the U.S. live in "relative p ...
The Vermont Legislature is a fine institution, with a proud tradition, whose members strive to form, or reform, law, in a way, as they see it, that best serves Vermont and her people. However, as legislative sessions draw t ...
When he was in Vermont, President Obama called for a "doubling down" in support of clean energy. Prior to taking the stage, he was introduced by Jeanne Morrissey, the head of a local contracting company. One of the las ...
Forty-two years ago what started as a simple idea quickly grew into a national event. Twenty million Americans marked that first Earth Day, setting aside their political differences and coming together in massive coast-to-c ...
Just as people around Vermont and across the country are marking the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day, Vermont state senators have voted to kill a proposal to expand Vermont's most successful recycling law - the Bottle Bill. A ...
In testimony before the full Senate, Department of Public Service Commissioner Elizabeth Miller Thursday experienced the power of political demagoguery and learned how the appeal of writing checks to a few trumps policy that ...
President Barack Obama inspired Vermonters last Friday with a stem-winder of a 30-minute campaign speech that reminded the 4,500 in attendance about the political power of unity. Advocating for fair taxes, expanded health c ...
Our graduates are being shortchanged. The workplace they are entering is the most challenging it has been in decades. By comparison, the workplace those who are responsible for education policy, funding, administration and d ...
According to some English-only activists who always seem to re-emerge in election year, and even former treasury secretary, Lawrence H. Summers, English's pre-eminence as a global lingua franca has rendered it unnecessary fo ...
