By Angelo Lynn Editor’s note: Angelo Lynn is the editor and publisher of the Addison County Independent, a sister publication of the Mountain Times. It’s hard to overstate the impact Sen. Patrick Leahy has had on Vermont, and the nation, […]
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Terry Williams announces Senate run
Rutland County Republicans announced May 19 that Terry Williams is running for U.S. Senate. A resident of Poultney who has been a soldier, farmer and statesman, Williams is an eighth-generation Vermonter. He retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel […]
Christina Nolan announces Republican bid for U.S. Senate, Feb. 22
By Lola Duffort/VTDigger Christina Nolan, the former U.S. attorney for Vermont, is running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. She formally announced her candidacy Tuesday, Feb. 22, in an exclusive interview with Fox News and released a 3-minute campaign […]
Welch launches campaign to replace Leahy in the U.S. Senate
By Sarah Mearhoff/VTDigger The long-suspected rumors are true: Vermont’s U.S. Rep. Peter Welch is launching his campaign for the U.S. Senate. The Democrat announced early Monday, Nov. 22, that after 14 years in the 435-member House of Representatives, he wants […]
Sanders, state officials oppose senate GMO labeling bill
By Anne Galloway, VTDigger.org Members of the U.S. Senate brokered a compromise Thursday that would make labeling of genetically engineered food mandatory nationwide. But state officials say the legislation is a last-ditch effort to scuttle a Vermont law that will […]