Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The state of Vermont's Click It or Ticket seat belt campaign is paying dividends for transportation and public safety programs.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A portion of a Winooski River bridge that is in the process of being replaced is sitting on the bottom of the river after it slipped off a construction barge.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Perennial Liberty Union political candidate Peter Diamondstone has been arrested again for refusing to leave a political debate he wasn't invited to.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Gov. Jim Douglas, under fire from his two major-party gubernatorial campaign opponents during a debate Sunday, said he had worked to protect the state's environment, but that he wanted to limit the role of government on food, energy and other issues.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Buy a new suit in California, you pay sales tax. Take it to a dry cleaner, and the transaction is tax-exempt. Luis Zuniga presses shirts Wednesday at Prestige Cleaners in Sacramento. Owner Jim Douglas is worried about the proposal to begin charging sales tax on now-exempt services like dry cleaning. Douglas, a board member of the California Cleaners Association, says expanding the sales tax on services...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Federal regulators have turned down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant's plan to use some of the money from its decommissioning fund for management of the plant's nuclear waste, and say the plant has been overestimating the fund's likely earnings.
Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Word finally got into the papers about the push-poll, but it wasn't a reporter delivering the news : Jim Douglas and Brian Dubie have taken the strategy to a new low. Word is out that Gov. Douglas is doing a push poll using Brooke Bennett's death. Can even diehard Douglas supporters stomach that level of cynicism? That's from an op-ed by Assistant House Majority Leader Floyd Nease, and it's a rather...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Gov. Jim Douglas is praising Vermont's first two-day sales tax holiday and is hinting he'd support making it an annual event.
Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
It took a little longer than I expected, but the statewide campaigns are now all about child sexual predation - at least this week. It's likely that challengers were moving cautiously to gauge the mood, but the first in, predictably, was Jim Douglas - whose call for a renewed Death Penalty and chemical castration laws shared the front page with reports that his Corrections Department supported alleged...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
For Vermont retailers, it was a little bit of Christmas in July. Bargain-hunting consumers flocked to furniture stores, appliance stores and kitchen retailers Saturday to take advantage of a two-day "sales tax holiday" that suspended the 6 percent levy on nonbusiness purchases of $2,000 or less.
Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Okay-- this is what I understand to be going on: VY is operating at 40% due to some serious problems in the cooling towers. Here's Symington's statement : How many more times will we have to learn about maintenance issues at Vermont Yankee before Jim Douglas presents a plan for transitioning to other sources of power if this aging plant has to be shut down? After last year's collapse in part of the...
Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
How many more times will we have to learn about maintenance issues at Vermont Yankee before Jim Douglas presents a plan for transitioning to other sources of power if this aging plant has to be shut down? After last year’s collapse in part of the cooling system at Vermont Yankee, we were assured that a full-scale review was done of the wooden support structures and the problem had been fixed. Yet...
Vermont Daily Briefing (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
When your friends ask why you spend your time surfing political blogs rather than resurfacing the driveway or bleaching the bathroom grout, you tend to freeze up, babble, apologize even. But there’s no need. Tell them you read political blogs because it allows you to read tomorrow’s news today. Or even July’s [...]
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
A man is facing simple assault charges that he hit Gov. Jim Douglas in the face with a cream pie while the governor was marching in the Montpelier Independence Day parade. Read the full story
Fox News (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
A man is facing simple assault charges that he hit Gov. Jim Douglas in the face with a cream pie while the governor was marching in the Montpelier Independence Day parade.
