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• Rockaway Memories

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  It's more than an hour to go from Manhattan to the last stop on the A train at Beach 116th Street, but Far Rockaway is still part of New York City.
  
  I have been fortunate to travel to this little peninsula at the edge of Queens many times to' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:45pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Assistant Judge Guilty of Harassment II

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  Windsor Country Assistant Judge William Boardman still refuses to take me off his spam list. I keep getting his crappy spam emails about Vermont courts or whatever. I don't even read them. I've asked him several times to stop sending them to me, but he just refuses. The first time [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:57pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• What's the Matter with Burlington?

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  It's been almost seventeen years since the posts on Church Street went from green to black.
  
  The mall sucks. Woolworth's is gone. You can't buy a hammer downtown. The economy of our urban core seems more and more to be premised on the idea that everybody has a trust' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:23pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Internet Time Machine

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  The Internet is a kaleidoscopic time machine. Look at this old page from this blog. Or how about this one? Weird. And how does iburlington still exist? I started a section called "link graveyard" somewhere on this blog a long time ago, but like everything else I [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:02pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• City Between Rock and Hard Place on BT

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  "You don't just walk away from a thirty-three million dollar debt." -Jonathan Leopold
  
  The city of Burlington has always owned the risk for Burlington Telecom. The notion that taxpayer money was never at risk was patently false. Big D or small d department, BT belongs to the City and' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:37am EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Mulligan Seeks Re-Election

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  Owen Mulligan is running for re-election as Ward Six Clerk.
  
  Note he is the Ward's "Clerk." Not the Ward's "Assistant Chief Administrative Officer." [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:33am EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Russia Bans Death Penalty

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  From Al Jazeera English....
  "A Russian court has effectively outlawed the death penalty in the country, ruling that a moratorium on capital punishment due to expire in January must remain in force."I was wondering just the other day if Russia had the death penalty. This action by the Russian [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:03pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Ed to Bob

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  A letter from Councilor Adrian to Mayor Kiss...
  
  *****
  November 19, 2009
  
  Dear Bob:
  
  I would like to follow-up on Karen Paul's letter of the other day and Joan Shannon's letter of today. We have, over a period of time, been asking as individual Councilors for [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:33pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Joan to Bob

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  It looks like the city council is tired of getting pushed around. Here's a letter Councilor Joan Shannon just sent to Mayor Kiss...
  
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  Dear Mayor Kiss,
  
  On November 11, 2009 the Ad Hoc Committee on BT Governance requested certain information in order to better understand the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:51pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Council Delays Financing II

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  "Had I been there I would have voted against splitting the question, and against the postponment of the letter of intent." -Me from the last post
  
  A prominent local attorney wrote to me yesterday to express his belief that Monday's resolution was more binding than I thought. Why a' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:13pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Council Delays Financing

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  Breaking News
  Well that was one of the more entertaining council meetings I've seen in recent years. In the end Bill Keogh couldn't quite keep up with his officiating duties and posed the motion to postpone in such a way as to be unintelligible by all present except city attorney [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:33am EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Poopsie for Shumlin

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  My wife Poosie is all into Peter Shumlin for governor. She likes his appearance, she likes his voice and she likes what he stands for- fiscally conservative and environmentally liberal she says. She loves his nose.
  
  I think p-p-p puttin' on the 'witz has a lock, but I also [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:20pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Department or department?

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  Cheif administrative officer Jonathon Leopold keeps pushing the limits of the public's credulity. Take a look at this recent email between Leopold and city councilor Marissa Caldwell in which Leopold tries to defend calling Burlington Telecom a "department" in a recent Free Press Op-ed.
  
  
  From: Jonathan Leopold[...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:32pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Bob Kiss Blogs about BT

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  The Mayor discusses the ongoing controversy surrounding Burlington Telecom at The Prog Blog.
  
  Also, The Burlington Free Press obtained an unauthorized copy of the communications between Leopold and city lawyers. The documents won't officially become public until the resolution to release them, passed unanimously last night by the' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:53pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Leopold to Personally Repay 17M BT Debt

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  Just kidding. [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:19pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Assistant Judge Guilty of Harassment

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  Assistant Judge William Boardman from Woodstock will not stop spamming me. I have asked him more than once to kindly take me off of his email distribution list, and he simply refuses. This is not this man's first ethical breach.
  
  I don't want your emails Mr. Boardman. What [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:46pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• The Obamas' Birth Control

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  I wonder what Barack and Michelle Obama use for birth control. Think he's snipped? It appears they made a conscious choice to stop at two kids. Kinda weird how the last three presidents have spawned only daughters. And the last president to spawn sons lived to see one of them' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:00am EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• Existential Equilibrium

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  "equilibrium" 1.A condition in which all acting influences are canceled by others, resulting in a stable, balanced, or unchanging system." -Answers.com
  
  I have said before on this blog that everything is defined by the absence of what it isn't. This pertains to all areas of life and of the'" [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:11pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian

• BurlingtonPol Eye-Spy

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  Caught on film! Matty Tanner and Bernie Sanders!
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:34pm EST
  by Haik Bedrosian