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"It's difficult to keep ahead of the permitting process
in order to maintain inventory," he continues. "I can't imagine that it has ever been more difficult to receive permits for housing, and that's limiting. ... And our good track record doesn't count the next time around; even people we've sold houses to try to block further development."
... There are pressures, carrying costs and fees to pay on a development before you even put a spade in the ground," he continues. "If it gets held up one, two, three, even five years, and if you have to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars having archaeological digs, it drives up the costs and can render some projects unaffordable."
"We believe that Act 250 is critical to responsible growth that sets Vermont apart from other states, and we fully support it," Stephanie adds. "However, when we're in a housing crisis as we are now, it's important to respond to it now, not in five years' time. I'm proud to be in Vermont, but we can't lose sight of what our needs are.
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Bishop Kenneth Angell on Monday called for an end to war in
a special evening Mass at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Burlington's Old North End.
The Mass began in a darkened church, as the congregation held candles and prayed for a peaceful end to the nation's brewing international conflicts. Catholics came from around the region to join the peace service.
Betty Blouin and Catherine "Beautiful" Couture came from Montpelier. Blouin said she prays daily for peace.
Angell invoked Pope John Paul II in a homily that likened war's destructive effect on the world to Christ's broken body. The bishop of Burlington instructed a congregation of about 150 Catholics that loving one's enemies surpasses the "eye for an eye" attitude of war.
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Congress passed the Patriot Act
to give the government greater power to hunt down terrorists. But critics say it targets law-abiding Americans. Now the debate has landed in Burlington, where the city council is scheduled to vote on a resolution urging at least partial repeal of the act.
The problem, according to the critics, is that a trip to your local public library could conceivably put you under surveillance by the government -- as a potential terrorist. Among other changes to existing law, the Patriot Act allows the FBI and other government agencies to monitor the books you read and the Internet web sites you visit, not only at the library but from any computer. Moreover, Librarians are prohibited from talking about any visits they may get from the government.
... The resolution's co-sponsor is Magi's husband, Progressive city councilor Doug Dunbebin (Ward 3). He said, "I think there needs to be a proper balance between personal safety and personal privacy."
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Ed Lacroix knows that anyone can walk into a Vermont town
clerk's office and obtain the appraised value, location, name of the owner and footprint of any home in that community.
It's all a matter of public record, and most of the time town assessors and listers have no qualms about letting people look at these files.
Lacroix and his business partner William Fellinger want all of that information from every Vermont town so they can put the information on the Internet, accessible to paid clients.
The idea has touched off a debate over privacy, the Internet and the use of public records for commercial use.
Lacroix and Fellinger's nascent business is QueVt. Once it's up and running, Internet subscribers would be able to obtain all the assessment information they want, without leaving their homes or offices.
The service would make it easier for private appraisers to research properties as they come up for sale, refinancing or home equity loans.
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Flanagan Favors Stronger Environmental Protections
BURLINGTON – Ed Flanagan, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, today discussed his environmental priorities at a news conference at the Burlington Community Boathouse. Flanagan said that there is no better example of an issue that requires a national response than the "environment." Forces outside Vermont’s borders, such as Midwestern power plants, are polluting our air and waters, putting our health at risk, and hurting our quality of life. "Vermonters value our environment," Flanagan said. "We believe in clean air and clean water. We are disturbed by the encroachment of sprawl across our state at the same time that many of our downtowns are suffering from neglect and vacant storefronts. We also understand that our state’s economy and our quality of life are inextricably linked to the health of our environment."
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propaganda is being turned into "reality" TV.
In drafting the US Constitution, one of the central goals was to insure a separation of powers. The basic idea was that each branch would be checked and balanced: executive power overseen by the legislature, legislative power evaluated by the judicial branch, a judiciary appointed by the executive but confirmed by the legislature, and so on. The approach was meant to maximize democratic rule by and for the people.
In the last year, however, the US executive branch has worked hard to upset this balance. Its efforts to date include a shadow government - involving only executive branch officials - that would assume power in a catastrophic emergency, and the refusal to release documents requested by Congress on issues ranging from official meetings with Enron to decades-old prosecution strategies for the 1960s Boston Strangler murders.
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There was an explosive debate in Vermont over Civil Unions
during 2000. The General Assembly was packed with standing room only, as people weighed in and attempted to influence the legislative branch on whether their should be a special law giving rights specifically to homosexuals couples. Many Christians did not want any special bills for homosexuals and homosexuals did not want the rights under this bill to be extended to anyone else.
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Winooski Downtown Redevelopment Project
includes a hotel, restaurants, retail stores, a 12-screen cinema, fitness center, 250,000 square feet of office space, 400 housing units, a parking garage, and a walkway along the shores of the Winooski River.
This is a good project. Housing is desperately needed in Chittenden County, and 10% of the units are being set aside as affordable housing. The development is taking place in an existing downtown. Much of the office space will be occupied by Vermont Student Assistance Corp (VSAC), the nonprofit instrumentality of the state that makes student grants and loans and administers Vermont’s higher education savings accounts. VSAC has outgrown its space in Winooski’s Champlain Mill.
The project appears to be a “done deal.” The permitting process has progressed in record time and is nearly complete.
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A lake trout attacked by a sea lamprey is a gruesome sight.
The 2-foot-long eel-like fish attaches itself to the trout's soft skin and literally sucks the life's blood out of the creature.
"Sometimes you get two lampreys on one fish," said Jim Hotaling, a Lake Champlain charter boat captain. "We had one that looked like Medusa. You couldn't see the fish."
Vermont and federal officials this week begin an effort to reduce the population of sea lampreys in Lake Champlain by pouring the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophe-nol, or TFM, into Lewis Creek in Ferrisburgh and Charlotte. The hope is that the chemical will wipe out thousands of immature lampreys before they migrate into open lake water where they gorge themselves on trout, salmon and other fish prized by anglers.
The program has been controversial and required approval by U.S. District Judge William Sessions. Some people feared the lampricide would harm other species and diminish the quality of the lake.
A marina's plans to add docks has some Colchester residents questioning
Malletts Bay is already overcrowded with boats.
Champlain Marina wants to build an 8-foot-wide, 180-foot-long walkway and add 16 boat slips to its marina. Colchester residents who appeared at a state Water Quality Division hearing on the matter this week at Colchester High School said the expansion would worsen conditions on an already too-busy Malletts Bay, stir up pollution and contribute to unwanted noise.
The marina is in a cove between Coates Island and Malletts Head. The new boat slips would accommodate boats slightly larger than 50 feet in length, Champlain Marina manager Bruce Deming said. All boats that dock at the marina are smaller than 50 feet, he said.
Deming told the dozen or so residents that the new construction would have little or no environmental impact. He came armed with letters of support, including one from Colchester Police Marine Unit Harbormaster Michael Cannon who wrote that the expansion would not encroach on boaters' rights-of-way.
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About 2,200 wrestling fans packed a sold-out Memorial
Auditorium to watch male and female stars from the WWE climb into the ring to grapple their way to victory. The trip into the arena had taken the fans past a mostly dignified duel of free speech.
About 30 people had gathered for a silent protest on the southwest corner of the intersection of Main and South Union streets. They held such signs as "Bully See, Bully Do," and "What are your kids watching?"
Many were members of the Burlington Business and Professional Women, a group that believes that professional wrestling has devolved into little more than bullying and violence against women. All wore purple ribbons marking April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
"I'd be hard pressed to find anything watchable," said Kathy Granai of Colchester, one of the protesters. "People are rooting for the real jerks, and that's the wrong message."
Several cars honked their horns in support as they passed the group.
About five months ago, when residents were reeling from a major tax
increase, Essex Junction Rep. Peter Hunt admonished the Champlain Valley Exposition to "pay its fair share."
Hunt started a petition that called on the nonprofit organization to contribute financially to the village, and a maelstrom of letters railing against the Expo hit local papers.
Since then, representatives from the village and the Expo have met a few times privately, without making much headway on resolving their financial relationship.
They met again Thursday, and though the village doesn't have a check in hand from the Expo, representatives from both sides say they took a step in the right direction.
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Burlington officials are hoping residents will turn out in support
of a plan to redevelop the Moran plant.
The plan calls for turning the old power plant into a recreational building. It would include a skating rink, climbing wall, sailing center and children's museum. Officials are hoping residents will support the proposal when it comes up for a vote on Town Meeting Day. They believe the revitalization plan would be good for the local economy.
The current price tag on the project is estimated at million. million of that must come from the city. Officials say if voters okay the project, they will begin to investigate financing for the redevelopment.
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Community conversations on race, diversity and culture
is a series from the Burlington Free Press.
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Crombie wants Burlington's composting site moved.
State Agency of Natural Resources Secretary George Crombie has a message for officials at the Intervale Center: The low-lying flood plain and historic Abenaki settlement area along the Winooski River is no place for the state's largest composting operation. That is the latest blow to a Vermont composting operation, a burgeoning industry that has come under increased scrutiny this year. The scrutiny has prompted composting advocates to launch an effort to clarify and customize regulations to a practice they say is too valuable to jeopardize.
Intervale Compost Products, which has grown steadily over the past 20 years, was ruled in May to be a commercial enterprise and not a farming one, making it subject to stringent Act 250 land-use regulations, from which farms are exempt. To win a permit, the Intervale Center will have to conduct archeological surveys and prove that composting work won't harm Abenaki remains on land considered a historic settlement.
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Death in Vermont has changed.
Thanks to medical advances, fewer Vermonters die unexpectedly. More end life gradually after intensive medical care and, often, a decision to cease treatment.
For some, approaching death provides opportunities to mend relationships, knit families tighter and make decisions to ensure dignity and prevent pain.
Most Vermonters, though, spend their final days wrestling with medical dilemmas, dealing with pain and struggling to find peace.
... The Rutland hospital is renting an 850-seat theater next month for a forum on assisted suicide.
The Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden County is bringing the 80-year-old founder of America's first hospice to the Sheraton in South Burlington to discuss how to care for terminal patients.
Vermont's public debate about end-of-life ethical issues is under way.
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Farmers' early-season vegetables is threatened by state action.
Tiny salad greens fuzzed the dark earth Tuesday at Half Pint Farm in Burlington's Intervale. A layer of clear plastic stretched over metal hoops protected the crops from the day's bone-chilling cold.
By early spring, farmers Spencer and Mara Welton will be able to cut the greens and provide their customers with the season's first fresh produce. "Hoop house" farming represents the future of market gardening in chilly Vermont, the Weltons say.
Not in the Intervale, state regulators have told their landlord, the Intervale Center.
The broad agricultural valley in Burlington's North End is the floodway of the Winooski River and farm "structures" aren't allowed in floodways, the Agriculture Agency wrote in December.
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Fletcher Allen Health Care and Federal and Vermont
prosecutors announced a million settlement Monday to remove the hospital from criminal and civil liability due to misdeeds connected with its Renaissance Project expansion program.
It's a surrealistic deal, a bizarre arrangement that requires a hospital in deep financial straits to send money to federal and state governments that, in turn, already spend millions of dollars to support the very same facility through various health plans.
Under the agreement, Fletcher Allen will pay ,000 to each the federal and state governments. Gov. Jim Douglas intends to ask the Legislature to earmark most of the state's portion to the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, which recently lost roughly ,000 in federal funds because of poor management and lax patient security.
In other words, Government Paul is forcing Taxpayer Paul to pay for mistakes made by publicly subsidized Hospital Peter.
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Frank Nicosia, a professor of history at St. Michael's opened a daylong
antiwar campus symposium with a talk on the underpinnings of the 2003 Iraq invasion -- an action that Nicosia said was grounded partly in policies of the Clinton administration and in a bipartisan U.S. penchant for "regime change" that has played out since the end of World War II. It was an invasion apparently contrary to international law, under which only wars of self-defense are acceptable.
A Holocaust specialist, Nicosia pointed out that in the Nuremberg tribunal after World War II, the United States helped prosecute Nazi leaders for their "crimes against the peace" and their "wars of aggression." As for the war in Iraq, Nicosia asked:
"Why not hold ourselves accountable to the same standard?"
The veteran was Matt Howard, a freshman at St. Michael's who served as a Marine during the Iraq invasion and is a leader of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
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IBM electric rate deal raises questions
number of state policymakers say it's time for the Legislature to discuss when and how to give Vermont businesses a break on electric rates.
Their interest has been triggered by a controversial agreement proposed by IBM and its electric company, Green Mountain Power Corp.
The deal would allow IBM's Essex Junction plant to continue paying a lower ''economic development'' rate on some of its power even though the company hasn't promised to create jobs, retain jobs or refund its electricity savings if it cuts jobs.
IBM and the Douglas administration say the lower rate is justified because it will keep Vermont's largest private employer competitive and might preserve jobs.
That is a much looser standard than state utility regulators have used in the past. Generally, companies have won lower ''economic development'' rates only for new power purchases tied to creating jobs.
IBM wants Green Mountain Power to cut their electricity
costs at everybody else's expense. Meanwhile, our Republican governor, Jim Douglas, allows IBM to get away with anything they want in a one-sided deal that only benefits IBM. All we get out of their deal is the new "IBM Tax" that'll pop up on our monthly electricity bills.
IBM's shenanigans at the state level of government reflect what Corporate America is doing on a national and international level. Corporate America has bought out our political system! They are dictating the terms of public policy. Big Business and organized money are using whatever leverage they can to exert pressure over the unorganized public. They are shifting the flow of resources so that they are the sole benefactors. Everyone else is left out of the loop.
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Intervale Compost Products would rather fight than switch.
Its parent, the nonprofit Intervale Center, announced Monday that it has applied to renew its state operating permit to turn leaves, manure and food waste into marketable compost. The center said new expert studies prove the big composting operation has not harmed water quality "after more than 15 years of intensive composting."
In applying for a renewed permit, the center declined the advice of Natural Resources Secretary George Crombie. Crombie has said the low-lying, riverbank Intervale site, rich in American Indian artifacts, is the wrong place for the business.
Intervale Compost takes in up to 30,500 tons of leaves, yard waste, manure and food waste each year. About 4,700 tons of that waste would otherwise end up in landfills. The operation turns the compost into 25,000 cubic yards a year of compost and garden soil.
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Lowe's wins permit
The Vermont Water Resources Board on Friday granted Lowe's Home Improvement a water discharge permit, despite strict new rules on pollution standards the board imposed last summer.
The type of soil Lowe's would be built on, plus an elaborate water treatment system the store plans, helped win the case, said Kevin Leahy, a lawyer for Lowe's. However, other developments built elsewhere without options for such treatment systems could be denied under the Resources Board rules, he said.
The Lowe's store would be built off Shelburne Road in South Burlington, near a Hannaford Brothers supermarket.
Whether the store would be allowed came into doubt June 29. Lowe's had received a state permit to discharge treated water that comes mostly from rain runoff. Opponents appealed the permit to the Water Resources Board.
Most lake pollution comes from lawns and gardens.
Phosphorus from your garden and lawn fertilizer is the single largest pollutant in Burlington's stormwater, researchers say.
The finding comes from a million, five-year University of Vermont study, now in its third year. UVM scientists are testing stormwater runoff to determine to what degree the water harms Burlington Bay.
Researchers thought they might find harmful levels of heavy metals, pesticides or petroleum residues in the stormwater. Although those substances were detected, the biggest surprise has been the high concentrations of phosphorus in the stormwater.... Stormwater is the wash of rainwater that carries oil, grease and other pollutants from lawns and city streets into Lake Champlain. Burlington's stormwater carries enough phosphorus and bacteria into Burlington Bay to feed algae blooms that can sometimes make the lake unfit for swimming.
Renaissance Project was aptly named.
The goal was a rebirth of Fletcher Allen Health Care to secure the Burlington hospital's place among the nation's leading medical centers, provide state-of-the art treatment for patients, train the next generation of physicians in an ideal learning environment and create an economic dynamo for Vermont.
It will take a different kind of renaissance to make that dream a reality. Until the financial and political scandal that has enveloped the hospital is resolved, unless public confidence is restored in the hospital's management, its board of trustees and state regulators, the massive expansion program will never fulfill its potential.
Construction is well under way on the 1.1-million-square-foot project, which includes a new Ambulatory Care Center that will contain services ranging from outpatient surgery to a clinical laboratory.
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Sanders Opposes Economic Stimulus Plan
Debate continues in the U.S. House over the President's economic stimulus plan.
The latest version of the proposal has enough support to pass the House, but not enough to make it through the Senate.
Democrats say it does too much for big business and not enough for the unemployed.
Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., agrees. "In Vermont and throughout the country, large numbers of workers are losing their jobs and their health insurance," says Sanders. "And it seems to me to be an outrage that the Republican leadership is proposing an economic stimulus package that provides huge tax breaks for multi-national corporations, but ignores the needs of the working people."
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State Diverts Education Funds for Winooski Construction Project.
They've done it again. Our "education" property tax dollars are now going to fund infrastructure development in the city of Winooski.
Many Vermonters may have read about the Winooski Downtown Redevelopment Project. The plan includes a hotel, restaurants, retail stores, a 12-screen cinema, fitness center, 250,000 square feet of office space, 800 housing units, a parking garage, and a walkway along the shores of the Winooski River.
As far as the state is concerned, this appears to be a "done deal." The transportation capital bill just passed (H.853) allocated .45 million in transportation funds for the river walk part of project, and directed the agency of transportation to begin construction in FY2001 if possible.
The debate continues tonight over how Fletcher Allen should be
managed in the future and what other agencies and people are to blame for the hospital's financial fallout. There are plenty of fingers being pointed by state politicians.
Congressman Bernie Sanders is crystal clear with his opinion on the Fletcher Allen scandal. He says change is needed now.
Sanders said, "I can't go back to Washington and say increase Medicare and Medicaid at a time when a hospital may be wasting substantial sums of that money or using it in an illegal way."
He doesn't think any new construction phases should commence.
While the blame game is being played, Congressman Bernie Sanders is pointing a finger at the outgoing Dean administration and the legislature.
He says the state should protect the public's interest, and instead they provided inexcusably weak oversight.
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The front page article on wind energy correctly portrays
a rapidly growing industry and highlights the fact that our state is at a crossroads regarding energy policy.
There's been a tremendous amount of discussion and debate over the last two years about renewable energy and efficiency.
We've seen extensive media coverage. Exhaustive legislative debate. Multiple conferences. Administrative proposals.
The time has come for Vermont leaders to stop talking and start making progress.
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility has been at the forefront of the sustainable energy movement for the last two years.
As we embark on a new legislative biennium and a new administration, we call on our newly elected leaders to make a sustainable energy policy a top priority.
But to make the right decisions, our leaders need accurate information. There were three specific issues raised in the article that were not accurate and deserve clarification.
The issue of same-sex marriage is reemerging as a hot button issue
this year. A state legislative commission is expected to present its findings and recommendations on the issue to the legislature later this spring. Saturday, a group that opposes same sex unions, held an open forum at the University of Vermont.
More than a hundred people filled the seats of a UVM ballroom for a lively and very heated forum about the legality of same sex marriage.
Within an an hour, many of those seats were empty. Some had turned their backs on the panelists, and others were expressing outrage.
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The Renewable Energy Debate
-- When Doug Racine describes renewable energy as "a moral imperative" and Con Hogan argues it is "a dream that's within our grasp," some skepticism is in order -- notably whether wind, solar and other non-traditional power sources really make sense for Vermont.
Conceptually, renewable energy has wide appeal, which is why it is an attractive issue for gubernatorial candidates. At an energy forum earlier this week, Democrat Racine and independent Hogan embraced renewables, while Republican Jim Douglas moderated his enthusiasm by insisting that Vermont should seek a consensus on the approach "in order to preserve our strong economy."
Renewable energy is often promoted as almost a cure-all to the future power needs of Vermont and the rest of the country, with supporters claiming that windmills, solar panels, biomass and other sources hold the promise of energy independence and could spare the world from global warming and the hazards of nuclear waste disposal.
United and Strengthening America (USA) Act
Ronald M. Jacobs, of the University of Vermont, sent me an email declaring that Under Senate Bill 1510, now being considered in the Senate as an Anti-terrorism act. The claim is that, "Under the law as now written, you and anyone connected with any organization - 501(c)(3), church, Rotary, any organization - can be snagged under this legislation. Lifting the Statute of Limitations means that you could have your home and other assets seized if you were a member of an organization that supported, for example, Leonard Peltier, or sent food or medicine to Cuba, or even protested against nukes in the '60s"
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Vermonters are evenly divided on whether to initiate military
action against Iraq, a new statewide poll has found.
Ten percent favor launching a unilateral U.S. strike against Iraq over concerns that country has accumulated weapons of mass destruction. Forty percent said they would favor a strike with the support of the United Nations.
The rest of those surveyed either opposed military action or were undecided, according to The Burlington Free Press/WPTZ NewsChannel 5 survey.
The findings are based on interviews with 625 Vermonters Oct. 23-25. The poll has an error margin of four percentage points.
Vermonters are opening up about death and the kind of care
they want at the end of their lives.
Doctors, church congregations, caregivers, advocates, lawyers and people facing their own mortality are talking about this once-taboo topic.
In Vermont, doctors are prohibited from causing death or providing patients with the means for suicide. Bills before the Vermont House and Senate would legalize physician-assisted suicide.
Many people have expressed their thoughts about the controversial issue in letters and essays to the Free Press.
... Every death is an intensely private matter, but Vermont is in the midst of a very public debate about allowing physicians to hasten terminally ill patients' deaths.
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Voters in Burlington get to weigh in on the future of the old Moran plant
on the Burlington waterfront -- with two non-binding questions on next week's city ballot.
Advocates of a plan to bring The Ice Factor, a popular ice-climbing wall, and other recreational activities to the old plant are looking for voter approval. But a competing plan would tear the old building down and leave the area for more park space.
Maurice Mahoney, a former city councilor and Moran project opponent, said, "What would happen if the city got stuck with a situation where the tenants might leave. How is the city protected, how are the tax payers protected in that eventuality. And we haven't seen anything yet that indicates there is a plan."
City and business leaders disagree. They say the concept is viable, and that's all they're seeking -- an endorsement of the concept.
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While the Vice President was inside raising money, people outside
were raising their voices.
Their message was clear .. they don't want war with Iraq .. but they do want to be part of the democracy.
As the Vice President came to greet Vermonters .. hundreds of protesters greeted him with jeers and signs.
The protest lasted for hours .. gaining steam every time cars drove by .. or someone caught a glimpse of a Cheney supporter.
All in the name of peace .. and stopping a potential war in Iraq. ... I'm kind of done thinking about that crap, I'm more concerned about what's going on overseas," commented another protester.
Not all people are protesting the war today .. many are also protesting what tehy call a lack of democracy.
They say they have no voice in whether or not the US goes to war.
"It's my way or the highway with Bush that's his attitude and that's an unfortunate thing, democracy is a very fragile thing right now at this point," added a protester.
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