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Friday, July 30, 2010

  • Can Burlington Save Centennial Field and the Lake Monsters?
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    Brian Pine has a new title at Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office: assistant director of housing and baseball.

    Pine is quietly coordinating a City Hall-sanctioned fundraising effort to keep Minor League Baseball (MiLB) in the Queen City. On Monday, July 12, in a rare display of tripartisan solidarity, the Burlington City Council got behind the idea.

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  • Why Vermont Businesses Advertise on New York Billboards
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    New York looks different than Vermont, and it’s not just because of the industrial wind farms. The Empire State still embraces “outdoor advertising” — think Times Square — while its Green Mountain neighbor banned billboards back in 1968. A few Vermont businesses take advantage of New York’s regs to advertise themselves in a way they can’t on their home turf.

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  • Adirondack Training Pays Off for Athletes and Lake Placid
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    Logan Franks learned to swim two years ago in a Baghdad pool that used to be the private property of Saddam Hussein. For the past three months, the 22-year-old Marine reservist from Plattsburgh has been plying the waters of Lake Placid’s Mirror Lake in preparation for his first competitive triathlon.

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  • The Life of Brian
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    Brian Dubie got a hero’s welcome at a recent campaign rally in his hometown of Essex Junction. Hundreds of supporters, many dressed in forest-green “Dubie Co-Pilot” T-shirts, had crammed into a small building at the Champlain Valley Expo on a rainy Saturday in June to help the Republican lieutenant governor launch his campaign for governor.

    The cheering began the moment Dubie stepped inside. Then the screaming and whistling gave way to a thunderous chant.

    “BRI-AN! BRI-AN! BRI-AN!” Dubie’s supporters yelled in unison.

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  • Outright Vermont Expands Its Reach to Queer Kids in Vermont
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    “Earmark.” Nothing sounds sweeter to a Vermont nonprofit than a guaranteed federal appropriation to fund a specific project. Rep. Peter Welch requested 29 of them last year as part of the federal budgeting process, for local organizations ranging from the Chittenden County Transportation Authority to the Northern Forest Canoe Trail.

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  • Will Voters Say "I Do" To Same-Sex Marriage Supporters?
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    Beth Robinson remembers going door to door in the waning days of the 2000 election, handing out campaign literature for imperiled lawmakers who had supported civil unions.

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  • On Your Markowitz
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    To announce her “clean energy jobs plan” last week, Deb Markowitz summoned the media to a Winooski factory that manufactures solar-powered hot-water heaters. When only two reporters showed up, the CEO of Sunward Solar called a dozen sweaty workers off the factory floor into an air-conditioned showroom to be an audience for the secretary of state who hopes to be Vermont’s next governor.

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