VSU is transitioning to become U Phoenix, Vermont edition. It's sad, but necessary. Both because of local ground truth and the economic downsizing taking place across the country; specially the FAANGS

It just sounds like you don't want to engage in the initial comment I made.

You hear about the bad landlords, you aren't hearing about the good ones. It's not that there aren't good landlords.

The first time I saw one of those stickers on the back of a truck, I only got a quick glance and I swore it said Slut Life. I was very confused.

> She is a US congressperson and can comment on anything she wishes, even ongoing investigations.

lol, no, just because you're a congressperson doesn't mean you can ignore court or fed orders. What if she talked to the press and accidentally gave away information that helped Sam Bankman-Fried develop a better defense for himself?

If you've ever had jury duty it's actually specifically outlined that you can't, so I imagine that it's the same for her.

>However, once a jury is impaneled, journalists are prohibited from interviewing jurors while the case is being presented and during jury deliberations.

Again, I'm not saying she DOES have a no-talk clause from higher ups, but it's not unreasonable at all.

>I hope she gets it together over the weekend and agrees to talk about this with the Vermont media.

I hope she doesn't, because it would mean she is an idiot and I would no longer trust her to represent me.

Have you seen Breaking Bad? There's a scene in it where they actually joke about this with Badger.

>Did you say anything stupid? And by anything stupid I mean anything at all.

So I have to emphasize again, that the thing you are asking our congressperson to do, talk about an active legal case, is so well known in the public conscious as a horrible idea that modern media actually jokes about that one of the dumber meth dealers in a TV show might do it.

April is mud season. Many hiking/biking trails will be closed. Stick to paved roads.

But most of all, don’t come in April. Sorry.

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Those jobs are already guaranteed to pay their taxes here. Bringing in new taxpaying jobs means this program pays for itself. We have plenty of underpaid locals I'd rather train up for these jobs instead.

You can walk through the remains of the old marble factory, but the quarry itself is filled with water now

We'll look into that, thanks! And yes, it's been pointed out to admins multiple times that maintaining a digital catalogue will be a much more expensive venture than maintaining our physical book collection. They only say it's the "way of the future".

Why not offer it to those who can fill the good paying jobs here like tech and nursing? Otherwise they are just bringing their income tax. Both would be better.

No, it's a good point. Many students are transferring, but just as many don't have that option, and their educational success is going to be severely impacted by this move. It's for those students we're fighting this.

That would make a gorgeous tattoo

Not really. Ours will jump anywhere from 5 to 20 percent. I’m not sure about this year as everyone is worried about the 30 percent municipal budget increase

No. Essential workers, those who can’t take off and those who are too sick or old to attend cannot. That’s why only 6 percent of my town’s voters come out vs 40 percent for ballots

I learned the hard way not to trust GPS in Vermont. Your town roads are no effing joke. One minute you're driving along, the next minute you're scaling a dirt road up a mountain. Thanks, Google Maps. 🙄

They even copy pasted that horrendous attempt at a title. I have read the title like 5 times and I can't figure it out.

It’s like you’re complaining about someone on a platform that you can very easily block and never have to be bothered by again. Again.

Sarcasm aside, I genuinely don’t understand why you easily triggered folks don’t utilize the block feature more. It’s there for a reason. That, or just scroll on by if it’s a post you don’t care for. Instead, you choose to engage because this is obviously something that bothers you in some way. Maybe reflect on that.

And when you clear the trees, under it is a bunch of glacial soil full of....stones! Clear those stones out for agriculture or while removing stumps, and push them to the limits of your property line and BOOM. Stone wall. I read once some years back (wish I could remember the source) that New England's stone walls could stretch to the moon if put in one line, and they're under studied in general.

To everyone saying that the walls keep sheep in, I can tell you from first hand experience that this is simply not the case. Sheep will stay within the boundaries of cleared land, simply because their food source, grass/pasture, is a product of that cleared land. Farmers did not give a rats ass where their sheep went to pasture, as they did not even keep them in barns (sheep can sleep out in the snow all winter long). The early barns you see were built to store either hay or wheat, the latter of which was grown on cultivated land. And, jf you've ever had to plow land in Vermont and try to plant grain, you will soon realize how much area is lost to rocks if you do not make a concerted effort to remove them, dragging them along with your plow until you reach the boundary of your field (where you pile them up to get them out of the way). If you pay close attention you will find that land that was too steep to plow will not have stone walls, although it was most certainly cleared and used for sheep.

The “she might not be able to comment on it yet” line is silly.

She is a US congressperson and can comment on anything she wishes, even ongoing investigations.

She is choosing not to comment and the optics are not good.

I don’t have a reason to believe she was aware of the fraud. She did benefit from the fraud.

I hope she gets it together over the weekend and agrees to talk about this with the Vermont media.

Do you have a link or more info?

Found this.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/walsall/2023/02/24/black-country-schoolchildren-stranded-in-usa-after-hotel-shreds-44-passports/

Evidence for your wild assertion please. Oh yeah, this is Reddit.

Curious. Which majority vote getter candidate (where the rules state the election is decided by 50+1) didn’t get seated into office?

It’s not just south of Burlington. It’s 2 hours south of Burlington. Dorsey quarry is cool too, but only in the summer. I know of a bunch in Fair Haven as well, because we all went swimming there after school. They’re now privately owned, though.