Arraignments and all non-emergency hearings in Vermont courts were postponed since early March, but administrators in Vermont courts, while waiting for the order of judicial emergency in response to the pandemic to be lifted, implemented a new court filing system on April 20. Since then, courts in Windham, Windsor, and …
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Just as the Census Bureau’s August report of a small gain in July residential housing starts was due to a downward revision of the prior month’s report, the Federal Reserve Board’s September 15 report of a slight increase in industrial production was achieved by revising downward July’s initial reporting. The …
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Who could have ever imagined that tiny Vermont, the home of “socialist” Bernie Sanders and once considered to be the most left-leaning state in the United States, would now find itself under the political control of five hard-core military superhawks committed to transforming Vermont into the Pentagon’s flagship state for …
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It has become increasingly obvious that the only difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush is that the famous Bush smirk has been replaced by the Obama smile. The neoconservatism of Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Bill O’Reilly has given way to the neoliberalism of Bill Clinton, Timothy Geithner, …
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Nearly three years before I moved to Vermont, on October 9, 1990, the Bennington Banner published my article entitled “Should the U.S. Be Downsized?” Four years later in Challenge(Nov.-Dec. 1994) I wrote: “The time has come both for the individual states and the federal government to begin planning the rational downsizing …
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