Yesterday, here in Burlington, a new coalition called Immigrants Rights Vermont organized a protest against federal immigration legislation. Comments made by protesters include “no one is illegal,” and “We are deeply committed to ending the exploitation and abuse of immigrant workers who are working hard, paying taxes and contributing to our community,”
Heavenly and I attended the regular monthly BBA meeting this morning where Bob Kiss, Burlington’s new mayor, was the guest speaker and main event. Following is my account of his speech and Q/A…
Is April 15th a day of fear and loathing for you? Does your 1040 crank up your tension level? Is filling out and filing tax forms causing you deep psychic pain? Maybe you have a bad attitude.
As you may know, the taxes are coming up. I will be working on my mine this week with the goal of having it completed by the end of the week. I will be using a great service called TaxFreedom.com to complete and file the forms.
On March 16th, it was reported that the VFW Post 7779 in Hyde Park went to battle against to state in regards to the smoking ban extension to private clubs. They held a meeting and voted to reinstate smoking at the club.
I recently received an email asking why I haven’t posted any stories regarding BrokebackMountainVermont.com. I will go ahead and post one now. Recently a group of dedicated Brokeback Mountain movie fans decided it would be a great idea to name a mountain here in Vermont after the film.
At tonight’s city council meeting, during public forum, several people spoke in support of passing a resolution in opposition to the School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.).
That’s right, AOL has finally launched its In2TV service. AOL claims In2TV is the first broadband TV network, with the largest collection of free TV shows anywhere on the Web.
I just got the following email from FreedomWorks Vermont regarding the Vermont house vote to increase fuel taxes.
