Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island primary voters go to the polls on Tuesday, there are still three democrats running for President, and one of them isn't at all interested in getting votes. Mike Gravel, that old guy who used to be on the end in the Democratic debates, just wants some attention. For his idea. Really...
...Heaven forbid you break your arm,” she added. The test run in Quincy reflects a trend in university dining halls across the country. St. Joseph’s College in Maine first introduced trayless dining this fall. Several other colleges and universities, including Middlebury College in Vermont, San Francisco State University, University of California San Diego, and Alfred University in New York have since followed suit. Quincy resident Stephanie M. Kaplan ’10 said the trayless initiative was a “really impractical concept that was more of a hassle than it was worth...
...Republican side, John McCain seems to be running away with the race, with Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul in a battle for second place. The libertarian-minded Paul has a certain appeal to the leave-me-alone traditions of the Vermont outback - Naylor recalls meeting him at a 1995 secession conference in South Carolina - but it's not really a leave-me-alone state. Taxes are high. Government services are extensive. It's the only state without a balanced budget requirement, but its bonds are top-rated. Local affairs are still handled at the annual town meetings renowned throughout...
...case, the Democratic nominee will surely carry the state in November. G.O.P. primaries used to be the main events in Vermont, deciding whether progressive Republicans or conservative Republicans would represent the state in Washington and Montpelier, but now they're basically irrelevant. In 1998, an elderly dairy farmer named Fred Tuttle - a high school dropout who had starred in a low-budget political farce called Man With a Plan but had never showed any interest in public policy - won the G.O.P. primary to challenge Senator Leahy with a $16 campaign budget. (The key moment came during a radio debate, when...
...Vermont is wonderfully quirky, and we like to put our thumb in the eye of the establishment," Nelson says. "But I wouldn't read too much into Tuesday. It's a liberal state...