The state next to the state that wants to Live Free or Die has a more mature, less aggressive outlook on life. Senator Patrick Leahy spends about $1.99 to campaign each six years and the junior Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, is a damn Socialist. Plus there is that great skiing and cheese. Who wouldn't want to live in Vermont? Oh yeah, there's those winters.http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 4:44:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42740/lieberman-should-be-punished-leahy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultPatrick Leahy thinks fellow Sen. Joe Lieberman, after campaigning for John McCain, should no longer occupy the chair of key committees, the Democrat told Vermont Public Radio today. The Connecticut independent currently caucuses with the Democrats, and chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committees, the Hill notes. Lieberman went “beyond the pale,” Leahy said.http://www.newser.com/story/42740/lieberman-should-be-punished-leahy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 14 Nov 2008 15:42:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41020/vermont-begins-push-to-save-historic-barns.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTo Vermonters, the aging barns dotting their landscape are as important to the state's character—and tourism—as maple syrup or skiing. But the cost of maintaining them and the decline in family farms have taken a heavy toll, the Boston Globe reports. Now the state is conducting a "barn census" to catalog the structures that speak of Vermont's agricultural heritage as the first step toward preserving them.http://www.newser.com/story/41020/vermont-begins-push-to-save-historic-barns.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 28 Oct 2008 9:50:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37846/supreme-court-to-hear-huge-consumer-rights-case.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in what could be one of the biggest consumer-rights cases in years, reports the New York Times . The case focuses on whether customers who have been harmed by products that meet federal regulations can sue the manufacturer for damages, and is centered on a Vermont woman whose arm was amputated after an intravenous migraine drug gave her gangrene.http://www.newser.com/story/37846/supreme-court-to-hear-huge-consumer-rights-case.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 19 Sep 2008 5:54:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27908/vt-town-sheds-inhibitions-puts-them-back-on.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWhether shopping, bicycling, hula-hooping, or demonstrating for PETA, people in Brattleboro, Vt., have witnessed a rash of nakedness, the Wall Street Journal reports. Public nudity is generally legal in Vermont, but a spontaneous act of nakedness by three 20-year-olds two summers ago sparked a trend that made many residents uncomfortable and prompted passage of a ban.http://www.newser.com/story/27908/vt-town-sheds-inhibitions-puts-them-back-on.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 19 May 2008 21:06:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/89068/mural-tests-vermont-law-that-forbids-billboards.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBELLOWS FALLS, Vt. — It was meant to be a throwback to the days of romantic Sunday drives — a mural painted on the side of a red barn urging passing drivers to “See Bellows Falls,” a town whose Main Street conjures up bygone days.But despite its retro charm, the sign has become a lightning rod of controversy in a state that, for four decades, has been determined to keep its landscape free of commercial intrusion.http://www.newser.com/story/89068/mural-tests-vermont-law-that-forbids-billboards.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 08 May 2008 7:54:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/22836/leahy-to-clinton-youre-out.html?refid=rss_all_defaultContinued sniping with Hillary Clinton is hurting Barack Obama's chances of winning the White House, and "she ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama," Sen. Pat Leahy told Vermont Public Radio in an interview aired today. The harsh assessment coincided with a suggestion from another influential Vermonter, DNC chairman Howard Dean, that the superdelegates make their plans public by July 1.http://www.newser.com/story/22836/leahy-to-clinton-youre-out.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 04 May 2008 10:34:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/21129/diploma-drop-to-make-college-entry-easier.html?refid=rss_all_defaultStudents will find college entry far easier in coming years as the number of high school graduates falls, the New York Times reports. The annual US grad count is expected to peak at around 2.9 million in the next year or two, and then slump until 2015. “For the high school graduate, this becomes a buyers’ market,” said University of Vermont President Daniel Fogel.http://www.newser.com/story/21129/diploma-drop-to-make-college-entry-easier.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 04 May 2008 10:34:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20742/vt-towns-vote-to-indict-bush-cheney.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTwo Vermont towns have voted to arrest President Bush and Vice President Cheney if they ever set foot within their boundaries, the AP reports. The measures, which also call for the pair to be extradited to face trial for unspecified "crimes against the Constitution," passed after a public vote in Brattleboro and an emotional town meeting in Marlboro.http://www.newser.com/story/20742/vt-towns-vote-to-indict-bush-cheney.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 04 May 2008 10:34:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20734/obama-mccain-win-in-vermont.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBarack Obama and John McCain won their primaries in Vermont tonight, the Burlington Free Press reports. For Obama, it's his 12th straight political victory over Hillary Clinton, though the bigger focus comes later tonight when voters in Ohio and Texas weigh in. Rhode Island also votes. McCain, meanwhile, edges closer to officially securing the GOP nomination, which he could do tonight.http://www.newser.com/story/20734/obama-mccain-win-in-vermont.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 04 May 2008 10:34:57 CDT