Wednesday, June 17, 2015
That didn't keep Trump from blasting the song as he took the stage at New York City's Trump Tower on Tuesday to announce he'd seek the Republican nomination for president.
Maybe this will: Hours later, Young's manager, Elliot Roberts, issued the following statement:
"Donald Trump was not authorized to use ‘Rockin' in the Free World’ in his presidential candidacy announcement. Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for president of the United States of America."
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Mark Snelling, a Starksboro businessman and the son of the late governor Richard Snelling, recently came across a letter that shines new light on the situation.
The elder Snelling had announced in the fall of 1981 that he would not seek a third term as governor the next year, but his supporters urged him to reconsider. In the letter, dated Feb. 3, 1982, Jeffords told Snelling that he was making his own plans to run for governor, but would defer to the incumbent. Both were Republicans, but the two were not close.
“I intend to go forward and announce my plans on February 15,” Jeffords wrote. “I had intended to make my final decision this coming weekend, but in deference to you, I will wait until February 10.”
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On Monday night, the council unanimously approved Mayor Miro Weinberger’s $185 million budget for fiscal year 2016.
Bushor, who sits on the board of finance and is famed for her attention to detail, was in her element Monday night, highlighting noteworthy expenditures among the 3,600 line items.
Among them: Burlington will spend $100,000 to study how it can improve its notoriously byzantine permit system — with the goal of providing relief to homeowners who have been stymied when trying to make minor renovations.
Bushor also noted that while the municipal tax rate is going down, water, wastewater and solid waste rates are going up — increases that will amount to a few dollars per month for most users. Some of that will help fund replacements of aging pipes after 84 water main breaks betrayed their age last winter.
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Monday, June 15, 2015
Larry, 80, moved to England in 1968. He earned a master’s degree in social work from Oxford University and a law degree from Harvard. Like his brother, Larry Sanders has experienced both victory and defeat in electoral politics: He served eight years on the Oxford County Council as a Green Party representative and recently received 5 percent of the vote as a Green candidate for the British Parliament.
In May, Seven Days visited Larry to discuss the ways in which Bernie’s working-class roots shaped the presidential hopeful. In that story, Larry described Bernard (as he calls him) as an excellent athlete who had a comfortable upbringing and was particularly affected by participating in the civil rights movement.
Over email, Larry gets into greater detail about growing up in Midwood in the 1940s and ‘50s. Below are excerpts from that exchange.
East 26th Street, like many [streets] in the area, represented a kind of social engineering. The combination of apartment houses on the corners and detached houses on the rest of the street put lower-middle-class and professional families in close proximity. For children, this led to real mixing.
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A spokeswoman for Dealer.com said the company has no plans on moving and is seeking to fill 63 open positions. It's headquartered on Pine Street in Burlington's South End and has become, with 903 workers, one of the area's largest employers.
"All of our plans for Burlington are unchanged and we will continue to grow here business as usual," Dealer.com spokeswoman Alison Von Puschendorf said.
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Sanders' three-day trip to Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo and elsewhere came as House Democrats abandoned President Barack Obama on Friday and helped kill legislation that would give him greater power to negotiate a 12-nation trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. While Sanders has long opposed the TPP, Clinton has attempted to remain above the fray.
"I am not clear, nor do I believe the American people are clear, as to what Secretary Clinton's position is," Sanders told reporters in Indianola on Sunday, according to the Washington Post. "Is she for it or is she against it? Those are your two options. The president is for it. Most Democrats in the Congress are against it."
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What to make of the move? Not much, according to Bob Rogan, Welch’s chief of staff.
“As you know, there is a cottage industry of people who buy up political domain names to make money by selling them back to the politician,” Rogan said Monday. “Unequivocally, you should not read into this that a decision has been made or is even close to being made. This is just prudent scenario planning by campaign staff. Nothing more.”
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Friday, June 12, 2015
He may not be running for president, like his junior colleague, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). He may not be running for governor, as the third member of Vermont's congressional delegation, Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), is considering doing.
But Vermont's senior senator is up for reelection to an eighth six-year term next year, and he's already collecting cash from Vermont's business — and lobbying — community. Leahy is hosting a $100-$500-per-person fundraiser Friday evening at the eponymous and lengthily named ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain.
"This is part of our early organizational efforts to raise funds and generate early support for Sen. Leahy's reelection campaign," says Leahy campaign manager, Carolyn Dwyer.
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Running a campaign for the state's top office ain't easy. Just ask KSE Partners lobbyist Alex MacLean, who managed Shumlin's first gubernatorial bid in 2010 and his reelect in 2012.
"It's very similar to opening a business," she says. "You need to juggle eight balls at the same time. You're drinking from a firehose."
So what should Vermont's maybe-kinda-sorta gubernatorial candidates keep in mind as they prepare to enter the race? We asked MacLean and other alums of recent statewide campaigns.
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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Speculation about a possible sale had been circulating among Vermont media watchers for some time. Drysdale, 70, will continue to write part time for a few years but will cede daily operations to 32-year-old Calabro, who will be editor.
In a front page Herald story, Calabro said he believes the newspaper, with a circulation of 5,500, has a successful approach to covering the news that he plans to keep. "I believe in the Herald because it's good already," he said.
Drysdale was only 26 when he took over the paper from his father. For decades he has written news stories, editorials and responded to the many challenges that arise in journalism. In a telephone interview Thursday, Drysdale said he won't miss a few things.
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