Danville to Beck: Drop Dead
Today, voters in the Northeast Kingdom town of Danville took to the polls in a non-binding referendum on whether they should close grades 9-12 of the Danville School and tuition their high-school aged students to nearby high schools. The results are in, and the vote failed resoundingly. In the special meeting, 480 residents voted against…
Could VT’s Next Auditor Be…A Golf Influencer?
No, you didn’t misread the headline. We have our first candidate to succeed Doug Hoffer in the auditor’s office, and it’s not Tim Ashe, it’s not Emilie Kornheiser, it’s not Linda Joy Sullivan, it’s not even H. BROOKE PAIGE. It’s a fellow from Williston by the name of Nicholas Graeter. If you’re like me (and…
Molly Gray Goes Forth
What had been the worst kept secret in Vermont Democratic politics became secret no more today when Seven Days’s Colin Flanders broke the news that former Lieutenant Governor Molly Gray will follow in the footsteps of her predesuccessor (a word I made up) David Zuckerman and make a comeback bid for the role of second…
Chittenden-Central, Start Your Engines!
Mamma Mia, here we go again! Just when the good people of Burlington, Winooski, Essex Junction, and parts of Colchester and Essex Town thought they had recovered from the bonanza of mailers, yard signs, and campaign ads they were exposed to in last year’s very expensive and hotly contested State Senate primary, it looks like…
Former VTGOP Lawmaker Loses Big In Virginia
If VH1 ever wants to do a reboot of “Where Are They Now?” focusing on former state legislators, I think there’s an interesting episode to be written about former Vermont State Representative Felisha Leffler Storm. For context, I go to school in Washington, D.C., and because there are no interesting elections in Washington this year…
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Sugaring Off: Vermont Politics and History, Plain and Simple 