Burlington LP Caucus Meeting
Burlington LP Caucus Meeting – Sept 26th, 6-7pm in the Fletcher Room of Fletcher Library – Election of the Town Committee Officers will held and afterwards there will be time for discussion and getting to know everyone!
Burlington LP Caucus Meeting – Sept 26th, 6-7pm in the Fletcher Room of Fletcher Library – Election of the Town Committee Officers will held and afterwards there will be time for discussion and getting to know everyone!
It seems to me that when the people say they want affordable housing they really mean housing that’s affordable which is a home or apartment where they can live that is within their financial means.
Over the last week the stock market had quite a pull back followed by a small rise at the end of the week.
As you may know, the federal minimum wage will increase from $5.15 to $5.85/hour, which is a 70-cent raise. This will happen again in 2008 and 2009, which by the end will make the new federal minimum wage $7.25/hour by the end of 2009
Over the last week there has been much news and talk over this UVM protest over the lowest starting wages of $10.60/hour, which would be $22,048/year.
Yesterday, I got IM’d from a Libertarian friend of mine asking if there were any tax protests in the Burlington area for Tax Protest Day, which is always on April 17, the deadline for filing your income taxes.
It seems that the $124 billion emergency supplemental spending bill for the War in Iraq has been unpopular with both Republicans and some strong anti-war protesters.
Vermont could follow in New York City’s footsteps in passing legislation that would ban restaurants and other eateries from preparing and serving food that contains trans fats.
Last week I was asked by Steve Ekberg, chair of the Burlington Green Party, to help create a website for them. I’ve already got it started and online for you to check out at: www.burlingtongreenparty.org.