Vermont has an Air National Guard unit based at Burlington International Airport (BTV). They fly F-16s. The Air Force intends to eliminate some F-16 bases, keep others and convert some bases for use by the new F-35 warplane. Burlington is the Air Force’s number one pick to base the F-35. Why is that? It’s because […]
Car owners in Vermont are required to have license plates on the front of their car(s). There are exceptions. In 2009, drivers could display a Lake Champlain 400th anniversary plate. (The lake is actually much older, but it’s been 403 years since the white folks showed up and we tend only to celebrate ourselves.) Now […]
Strange as it seems, Vermont has much in common with Louisiana. Both states have a relatively large city (Burlington/New Orleans) which in many ways dominates the state’s profile, but folks who live outside that city take pains to disassociate themselves from it. (“Burlington is close to Vermont,” is the refrain here.) Each state has a […]
Not that you’d know it by the national media, but we had a primary election in Vermont Tuesday. Pretty exciting, but lacking in tea parties, billionaires trying to buy their way into office, wrestling executives and so forth. What we had was a five-way contest for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Our four-term (two-year terms) Republican […]
Vermont’s Military-Industrial-Real Estate Complex
Vermont has an Air National Guard unit based at Burlington International Airport (BTV). They fly F-16s. The Air Force intends to eliminate some F-16 bases, keep others and convert some bases for use by the new F-35 warplane. Burlington is the Air Force’s number one pick to base the F-35. Why is that? It’s because […]