Last night’s lengthy, profane tirade by a Burlington resident and activist could be the tipping point for the city council’s lack of control of their own meetings.

“I will say that in my 20 years on the City Council I don’t ever recall seeing someone do such a thing, despite hundreds of heated meetings and offensive statements,” Shannon said. “When something so unexpected happens it is hard to respond in the moment.”

Initially known as the Southern Connector, the project dates back to the early 1960s. Later it’d be branded the “road to nowhere,” as work sputtered across the next several decades in the face of legal challenges.

I see people being hypocrites. How many times have you called somebody an anti-semite because they called you out for being corrupt? Now you’re experiencing something similar. Black people and everybody in America do the same thing. 

Depending on who you listen to, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger is either a white supremacist or a city leader willing to ask awkward questions about the fiscal performance of the city’s former diversity office chief.

The camera/speaker system blurts out “You are trespassing! Please leave the area … This area is under video surveillance, and you have been recorded.” Neighbors are reportedly irritated.

The City of Burlington saw what happened under Tyeastia Green’s watch in Minneapolis and started asking questions about her work in Burlington, which ended in March 2022.

“The danger of labeling one of the very few actually-affordable buildings in Burlington as a nuisance property is that most of those people will not have any housing opportunities if forced to leave,” the former tenant said.

What happened Saturday, April 15 wasn’t some big evangelist outreach, it was a movement of God, a cross-carrying evangelist says.

Beta Technologies, Vermont’s emerging electric air transport manufacturer, will get a visit from First Lady Jill Biden tomorrow.

Working a similar diversity job in Minneapolis, former Burlington DEI director Tyeastia Green reportedly made false statements about fundraising for the city’s Black expo.

“Of much greater concern is that any neighborhood in the City feels that they need to pay out of pocket for basic public safety services,” Weinberger said.

A carbon impact fee on large buildings will go to Burlington voters in March.

The Burlington Police Department has just 22 active patrol officers to provide 24/7/365 coverage in the state’s largest city, and crime is rising.

Burlington police needed help from two other police agencies but were still too undermanned to prevent a rear-window escape.

As part of its ‘deep organizational work to address racism as a public health crisis,’ the City of Burlington won’t allow people who refuse to sign a diversity pledge to grow food in a taxpayer-funded community garden.

The mayor of Burlington wants to make homelessness rare and brief. It’s neither now.

Two active duty Air Force airmen are charged with assaulting a man in Burlington September 17, and a woman who was sleeping in a bank vestibule is being sought for allegedly attacking a 69-year-old man in a wheelchair and stealing his cash.

A silent protest was held at an Outright Vermont event Saturday on Church Street in Burlington over the assault of a gay man by trans activists September 18.

Burlington City Councilor Jack Hanson, chair of the council committee overseeing the Burlington Electric Department, voted to create the Net Zero Project & Equity Analyst position paying up to $100,000.

The Burlington police union last night agreed to more government shekels AND government shackles.

The Burlington City Council last night approved a 2022-23 budget that expands the police department by offering incentives and continues spending and programs on climate and racial diversity.

Assaults of Burlington’s already understaffed, overworked nurses are up, the union claims – a complaint echoed by Burlington first responders.

Someone threw a box at a Burlington fire truck windshield as it hurried to an emergency scene last week, the local firefighters’ union reports.

A day after a former Burlington city councilor was struck in the head by gunfire shrapnel in his own backyard, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger demanded the City Council and other authorities help stop the shooting spree in the state’s largest city.

Despite an 89% decrease in overall traffic stops, black people account for a higher percentage of Burlington Police Dept. arrests and are more than twice as likely to be arrested for a violent felony. 

453 Pine Street, Burlington is next to the Pine Street Canal Superfund Site, the location of a coal gasification plant that closed in 1966.