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Friday, June 01, 2012

• F-35 or Bust? Other Towns Clamor for "the Most Expensive Wea...

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  Chittenden County is unique among the six U.S. communities competing to host a new F-35 fighter-jet squadron: Only in Vermont, where the Air National Guard base is a “preferred” site to “bed down” the new fighter jets, have residents mounted significant vocal opposition to the proposition.

  Reaction around the five other bases — including those in Utah, Idaho, Florida and South Carolina — has ranged from apathetic to wildly enthusiastic.

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• So Long, "Sultana": Sen. Hinda Miller Stages Her Exit

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  It was clear from the first Jupiter reference that the Sultana Creative Spirit Awards would be a thoroughly Hinda Miller affair: part politics, part business and totally bizarre.

  “Everything happens for a reason,” Miller informed her audience last Thursday at Burlington’s Main Street Landing Film House. “So it’s not by accident that you find yourself here. Why? We don’t know, but it will be revealed.”

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  So Long, "Sultana": Sen. Hinda Miller Stages Her Exit
• It's a Families Affair: The Genealogy of AG Candidates Bill Sorre...

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  Tracing the family histories of Bill Sorrell and T.J. Donovan is like one big game of political connect-the-dots. Both are the products of prominent Democratic families from Burlington and they will face off this August in a closely watched primary for attorney general.

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• High and Dry: In Burlington, Boaters Wait Years for a Place to Pa...

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  The waiting list for a slip or mooring in Burlington’s municipal marina is so long that, in some cases, boaters can’t remember how long ago the clock started ticking.

  “Maybe eight years?” guesses Rich Malaspina, a Winooski resident who moved from limbo onto the water this year. “I can’t recall.”

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• F-35 Fighter Jets in South Burlington? Air Force Idea Bombs and S...

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  A U.S. Air Force colonel presiding over last Monday’s hearing on the pros and cons of hosting F-35 fighter jets in Vermont asked the audience to hold its applause until the end of the evening.

  The crowd did not obey orders.

  In the South Burlington High School auditorium, people spilling out into the hallways hooted and hollered as a parade of citizens spoke about an Air Force proposal to base as many as two dozen of the new-generation warplanes at Burlington International Airport.

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• E-Gads: The Town of Castleton Pulls the Plug on a Digital Democra...

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  You can track down a lost pet, publicize a bake sale, rally neighbors to help a family in need. All are benefits of Front Porch Forum, a hyperlocal, web-based service that combines the functionality of classified advertisements with the small-town appeal of useful gossip.

  What’s not to like about it? Plenty, according to the town of Castleton, which claims the online networking tool turned debate among local citizens into cyber feuding.

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• Vermont's Dwight Asset Management to Shed Jobs After Goldman Sach...

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  Several money managers are likely to lose their six-figure Vermont jobs in the coming weeks when Goldman Sachs, aka Wall Street’s “vampire squid,” completes its takeover of a Burlington-based investment firm. 

  Some lower-level employees will also be let go. The anticipated layoffs at 29-year-old Dwight Asset Management, one of Vermont’s few finance-sector powerhouses, will diminish the Queen City’s standing in the industry and deal a blow to Burlington’s economy.

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