“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.”
When a former Burlington city councilor seized the mic from a Burlington resident making a public comment, the media yawned.
“Burlington is aggressively moving forward to electrify everything and reduce our carbon emissions as quickly as possible,” said Mayor Miro Weinberger.
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.
Lacroix did not use any foul language; he did not promote or entice violence. He was exercising his right. And Siegel, literally, took it from him.
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.
From 2018 to 2022, the high on July 15 was last year with 97 overdoses. This year there have already been 252.
With retail theft on the rise and often not investigated, some Burlington store owners are locking their doors and and scanning security video for potential thieves.
The resolution was approved two days after pro-trans activists tried unsuccessfully to get Vergennes school leaders to cancel a meeting of citizens gathered to hear detransitioning expert Walt Heyer.
“We do not censor or criminalize speech in this nation because it offends,” said a critic of a citizen’s group removing anti-trans stickers.
Burlington has more solar power than any city east of the Mississippi, Mayor Miro Weinberger listed as one of his tenure’s accomplishments.
“Burlington needs and deserves a strong and reliable leader in our Police Department and we have been fortunate to have one in Chief Jon Murad for the last three years,” said Mayor Miro Weinberger.
Drugs, gunfire and breaking through an apartment wall led to a Burlington arrest for an April 29 shooting.
What happened Saturday, April 15 wasn’t some big evangelist outreach, it was a movement of God, a cross-carrying evangelist says.
Instead of heeding numerous warnings with the threat of being towed, students decided to do what they do best: dismantle barriers.
Four House bills introduced on April 4 would make numerous changes to Burlington’s voting regulations.
Beta Technologies, Vermont’s emerging electric air transport manufacturer, will get a visit from First Lady Jill Biden tomorrow.
If the provision passes, legal non-citizens would be able to vote in municipal elections.
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.
Almost 2/3 of Burlington voters rejected a plan for a community control board over the Burlington Police Department.
The Elmwood Ave. pods provide “rapid rehousing with all of the services required to move from homelessness to permanent supportive housing,” a city official says.
“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.
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger today presented a lengthy list of funding requests for the Legislature.
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 “East District” voters will gather Dec. 6 at Mater Christi school to pick a replacement for a councilor who resigned to apply for a newly created city job.
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.
The Homeless Pods are coming to Burlington – up to 30 climate-controlled shelters, on Elmwood Avenue.
Mayor Bernie Sanders’ political marriage of convenience between Burlington and Yaroslavl, Russia thrived during the Cold War, but couldn’t survive the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Burlington voters approved removal of anti-prostitution language in the city charter, and kept the Progressives in control of the City Council.
The city’s first Director of Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging has resigned. A friend says she sometimes didn’t feel welcome.
The Progs on the Burlington City Council wanted more control over discipline of police officers. Mayor Weinberger wouldn’t give it to them. So they scotched his popular pick for police chief.
