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Sanders hopeful for change on energy, taxes, and Medicare (Brattleboro Reformer)
January 11, 2012
By Carter Vanderhoof ROCKINGHAM — Sen. Bernie Sanders visited the Bellows Falls Area Senior Center Tuesday to discuss renovations to the building while also addressing taxes, Medicare, and a new biomass energy program. Sanders helped secure more than $40,000 for the senior center to make upgrades which include new lighting, windows, kitchen improvements and a [...]
Editorial: Business, As Usual (Valley News)
January 10, 2012
Every election cycle brings with it a spate of candidates who contend that government ought to be run like a business. This is sheer nonsense, of course. For one thing, plenty of businesses are run so badly that they go under. And although some principles of sound management are applicable to either, government is a [...]
Audio: Sanders Articulates Priorities During Break (VPR’s Vermont Edition)
January 9, 2012
While Congress is on winter break, members of Vermont’s congressional delegation have been traveling the state and making their views on specific issues known. Monday on Vermont Edition, we talk with Senator Bernie Sanders about the priorities issues he’s working on, including renewal of the Older Americans Act, federal funding for low-income heating programs, and [...]
OpEd: Overturning Citizens United: A Movement Moment (HuffPost Politics)
By Marge Baker It is no secret that our political system is corrupted by the influence of corporate money in elections. Pick any issue – financial regulation, energy policy, healthcare reform – and its problems can be traced back to unspoken quid quo pro agreements between politicians and their campaign backers. Polling on the issue [...]
Sanders To Sponsor Older Americans Act (VPR News)
By Patti Daniels (Host) Senator Bernie Sanders is sponsoring the re-authorization of the Older Americans Act. The legislation, which was originally enacted in 1965, supports programs that help senior citizens remain independent and in their homes and communities. Among the nutrition programs funded by the Older Americans Act is Meals on Wheels. But Sanders says [...]
US Sen. Sanders will support senior legislation (Boston Globe)
January 6, 2012
BURLINGTON, Vt.—Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders says he is going to introduce legislation to reauthorize the Older Americans Act, which supports Meals on Wheels and other programs for older Americans. Sanders is the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, which has jurisdiction over the Older Americans Act. Passed in 1965, it [...]
Sanders to introduce legislation to reauthorize the Older Americans Act (Burlington Free Press)
Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders says he is going to introduce legislation to reauthorize the Older Americans Act, which supports Meals on Wheels and other programs for older Americans. Sanders is the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, which has jurisdiction over the Older Americans Act. Passed in 1965, it was [...]
Editorial: Corporations are not people, my friend (Brattleboro Reformer)
January 5, 2012
If corporations are people, too, we wonder why none of them are in prison right now. For example: Massey Energy, for its April 2010 coal mine disaster that killed 29 men; Halliburton, British Petroleum or TransOcean for the Gulf oil spill; Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide Mortgage, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, etc., [...]
500 Pack Post Office Protest (Valley News)
By Aimee Caruso White River Junction – The U.S. Postal Service says it has to make changes in order to survive, but a discussion last night about the fate of a mail processing plant in White River Junction revealed deep, at times hostile, disagreement over what those changes should include. About 500 people filled the [...]
Sen. Sanders Editorial: Free Trade vs. Jobs (New York Times)
By Sen. Bernie Sanders To the Editor: “Factory Jobs Gain, but Wages Retreat” (“Working for Less” series, Business Day, Dec. 30) tells us just about everything we need to know about the collapse of the middle class and the greed of the top 1 percent. During the Congressional debates over the North American Free Trade Agreement, [...]
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