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Trump draws thousands of supporters in Bernie’s backyard

By   /  January 8, 2016  /  Issues, News, Politics & Elections, Vermont  /  No Comments

Photo by Bruce Parker

Donald Trump campaigned in Bernie Sanders’ hometown on Thursday, entertaining large crowds with pro-America statements and trademark Trump humor.

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On guns, Vermonters ‘feeling the bern’ for Trump

By   /  January 6, 2016  /  Issues, News, Politics & Elections, Vermont  /  No Comments

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Despite differences on some issues, when it comes to President Obama’s new gun control orders, Vermonters may be more like Donald Trump and less like Bernie Sanders.

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GOP lawmakers seek Democrats to help save Vermont’s school choice

By   /  January 6, 2016  /  Education, Issues, News, Vermont  /  No Comments

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Republican lawmakers back in session in Vermont say they want to save school choice, and are calling on the state’s majority party to help them do it.

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Lawmakers to defend taxpayers in fight over education spending cap

By   /  January 4, 2016  /  Budget and Spending, Education, Issues, News, State Budgets, Vermont  /  No Comments

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As state lawmakers return for the start of the 2016 legislative session, a fight is already raging over the spending caps in Vermont’s new education reform law — and property taxpayers have a big stake in the outcome.

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Watchdog’s Scariest People of 2015: No. 14

By   /  December 30, 2015  /  Education, News, Vermont  /  No Comments

Rebecca Holcombe

Part 12 of 25 in the series Watchdog’s Scariest People of 2015

In 2015, school choice in Vermont seemed to have miraculously survived a government power grab aimed at consolidating the state’s 277 school districts.
That’s until the Vermont State Board of Education ruled in September that school-choice districts must give up their educational freedom if they […]

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Bernie’s favorite policies failing badly in Vermont

By   /  December 28, 2015  /  News, Vermont  /  No Comments

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On the campaign trail in nearby New Hampshire, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders bangs the drum for a carbon tax and single-payer health care — despite the failure of both in his home state of Vermont.

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