Confusion Over Poll Opening Times Causes VT Voters to Miss Out

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 6:10 AM PST

2008/11/04 · 06:10

Some in the national media have reported that polls in Vermont open at 5 or 6 a.m., but the vast majority of polling places don't open until 7 or later. Some aren't open until 10 a.m.

If you're not paying close attention, this can be confusing -- and in fact, it confused two people I talked with this morning in Winooski, Vermont, who showed up before 7 and had to leave to go to work. Both said they will probably not be able to vote today because of it.

Click here to read my blog post on Blurt: The Seven Days Staff Blog.

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Thursday March 20, 2008 · 7:30 AM PDT

2008/03/20 · 07:30

Peter Freyne announced he's retiring his "Inside Track" column as of this week. You may remember Freyne from the days of the Howard Dean campaign -- he's been writing his column on and off since 1981, and has been at Seven Days, Vermont's alt. weekly, since 1995. Freyne has a reputation for asking tough questions and holding politicians' feet to the fire.

This may not be major-market media gossip, but it's big news in Vermont.

Dan Barlow of the Vermont Press Bureau interviewed Senator Patrick Leahy about Freyne's departure for a lengthy article today.

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Wednesday September 12, 2007 · 6:33 AM PDT

2007/09/12 · 06:33

Three influential Vermont politicians are set to endorse Barack Obama tonight. VT Attorney General Bill Sorrell, State Treasurer Jeb Spaulding and former Burlington mayor Peter Clavelle will announce their support at an Obama organizing party in Burlington.

Read about the endorsements in this week's Seven Days.

Scroll down to find an online presidential candidate poll.

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 3:29 PM PDT

2007/08/14 · 15:29

Barack Obama quietly visited Vermont last weekend. He appeared at a fundraiser and raised more than $250,000.

The event was closed to the press, but Seven Days writer Mike Ives crashed the party and filed this report:

Last Sunday, in a hush-hush visit to the Green Mountain State, Obama addressed a crowd of about 200 supporters in a tent outside the stately Norwich mansion of Bill and Jane Stetson. The senator’s appearance, which marks the first to Vermont by a declared, mainstream 2008 presidential candidate, is likely the swankiest local fundraiser since former state Governor Howard Dean’s failed 2004 White House run.

VT Iraq vets share (anti) war stories

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Thursday April 26, 2007 · 2:57 AM PDT

2007/04/26 · 02:57

I interviewed three Vermont members of Iraq Veterans Against the War last weekend and wrote an extensive cover story for Seven Days, the alt. weekly in Burlington, VT. The web version (Peace Talks: Three Vermont vets share their (anti) war stories) has audio links, excerpts from a book of IVAW writing, and two chilling video clips from an IVAW reading last Saturday night.

I'm posting this here because I was really haunted by their stories, and I think they deserve a wider audience.

I keep coming back to this quote from Matt Howard, a 25-year-old former Marine:

"I mean, even as we’ve reached this wonderful point now where the majority of Americans are against the war, it’s still not on the forefront of everyone’s waking thoughts. It’s still, Anna Nicole takes precedence over 150 people died in Iraq. You know, for us veterans, that’s all we think about. You can’t get this war off of your mind. You walk around, and see people just going on with their daily lives, and there’s this huge level of inner frustration with that, how nobody gets it. Don’t we realize there’s a war going on?"

On the bus with Cindy Sheehan

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Tuesday March 06, 2007 · 1:57 PM PST

2007/03/06 · 13:57

Last weekend, Cindy Sheehan, John Nichols and three Iraq War vets toured Vermont towns to call for an end to the war, and the impeachment of George W. Bush. Vermonters in several towns are considering resolutions calling for both.

Seven Days vlogger Eva Sollberger toured with the group, and shot a short film documenting their adventure (Stuck in Vermont, Episode 11).

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Monday October 02, 2006 · 2:21 PM PDT

2006/10/02 · 14:21

Turns out Republican Congressional Candidate Martha Rainville copied some policy statements from other politicians on her website. My colleague Peter Freyne has the latest on his Seven Days blog:

GOP Congressional hopeful Martha Rainville told yours truly Monday afternoon she has fired campaign staffer/researcher Christopher Stewart following an internal investigation of the plagiarism scandal involving Rainville's website. Read More

Alt. weekly write-up of vigil in small, pro-military town

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Wednesday August 24, 2005 · 1:31 PM PDT

2005/08/24 · 13:31

I went to a Cindy Sheehan vigil last week in Enosburg Falls, Vermont, and reported on it for Seven Days newspaper, the alt. weekly in Burlington, VT. It was a moving experience, especially since most people there are connected to people who are serving in the military. I spoke with a young man whose brother was killed in Iraq last year.

Profits and the Pope

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Saturday April 02, 2005 · 6:19 AM PST

2005/04/02 · 06:19

from my blog, 802 Online:

This morning, I, like many other Vermonters, woke up and thought, "I wonder if the pope died last night." The first thing I did when I got out of bed was turn on my computer. While it booted up, I went downstairs and plucked my Burlington Free Press off my porch. It said the Pope was still alive. But maybe he died last night, I thought. So I looked online.

Then, convinced that the pope was indeed still breathing, I read the paper. I found a mammoth above-the-fold photo of Catholics crowded into St. Peter's Square beneath klieg lights, praying. The headline reads: "Vatican calls world to pray." The pope package includes a whopping 7 stories -- 2 on the front page, and 5 more inside, listed on a menu bar just below the fold.

Why the saturation coverage? Read More

Battle for soul of the internet

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Thursday December 09, 2004 · 5:23 AM PST

2004/12/09 · 05:23

Here's a link to two stories I wrote for Seven Days, alt. weekly of Burlington, Vermont. Click on the cover or on the feature story to see.

One is about a Vermont company that does wi-fi network deployment. The other is about the battle between public and private entities who want to provide broadband access, including a Vermont analysis of the Penn. House Bill 30.
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Queer & Catholic & Smiling

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Monday November 29, 2004 · 2:46 PM PST

2004/11/29 · 14:46

This is a shameless plug for you to visit my blog, Amaryllis where you'll find this entry:

I love the internet. Why? Because it has proved to me yet again that I am right to be guided by my faith and not by my fear, as the Unitarians say.
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From the Editor

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Thursday November 11, 2004 · 9:00 AM PST

2004/11/11 · 09:00

My small town community newspaper was on the verge of folding, but seeing people become engaged in the national conversation about politics this year has inspired me to act to save it. I've now officially taken over as the editor and publisher of the Winooski Eagle, mailed free to every house in Winooski, Vermont. My first issue comes out tomorrow.

It's not on-line yet, but you can read my editor column at my blog, http://cresmer.blogspot.com. My mission: To use the newspaper to promote a culture of civility based on mutual respect and affection.

Not sure if anybody here cares, but I thought it might inspire others to deal with their disappointment with the election results in a similar fashion. That's my hope, anyway.

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