Everything you wanted to know about polling, but were afraid to ask
Legitimate, balanced polling does reflect public opinion. What’s often overlooked is that reporting public opinion may then alter it.
Polling: A guide to what you need to know when you pick up the phone
Americans have a love-hate relationship with polls. Response rates have been falling for at least 20 years.
Vermont reading test scores stagnate
Test results show that schools on average have not seen gains in reading proficiency over the last 10 years.
Progressives call for tax fairness
The new tax revenues would total more than $17.5 million a year. The money would be used to shore up the state’s weatherization program.
As a moderate Republican, Mallary prized compromise and bipartisanship
Mallary went from “Young Turk” Republican in the 1961 legislative session—the youngest of a group of eight Republicans and three Democrats” who were, as he put it, “disaffected” with the old party leadership, to a disillusioned Republican, who felt compelled to leave his party in 2000, as Sen. James Jeffords would the following year.
Retired “party girl” Judy Bevans talks politics
In a state in which, as she says, people are likely to say “I vote for the person, not the party, as if they have no party affiliation,” Bevans is a believer in the power of the two-party system in general and the Democratic Party in particular.
New public records bill puts teeth in right to know law
So far as they are concerned, with H. 73, the ante has been disturbingly upped for municipalities, since even well-intentioned resistance to providing a public document or some of its contents might cost taxpayers.
Gun safety law is in limbo, despite recent teen suicides
Gun Owners of Vermont director Ed Cutler sees no reason to “compromise” gun ownership with laws, “the reason being anyone who would misuse a firearm is not going to pay attention to any firearms law.”
On the Trail: Two rallies, two styles
There were no direct interactions between the noontime march organized by “Women for Shumlin,” and the “Pro-Brian, Pro-Jobs” rally held by the Dubie campaign an hour later.
Will lawmakers reconsider the primary date?
Could there be a way around the cumbersome and expensive primary process, while leaving in place the non-partisan voter registration that seems to suit the independent Vermont voter?
