The Week in Review
Home for the holidays in Vermont, Sen. Bernie Sanders sat down on Tuesday with WCAX-TV’s Kyle Midura to discuss state and national issues ranging from an exciting new early childhood education program in Vermont to a lingering strike by 1,700 workers in northern New England against a major Internet and phone service provider for the region. On Monday, Sanders spoke with WBUR-FM in Boston about a host of national issues including how he will use his new assignment as the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee to fend off Republican attacks on Social Security and Medicare.
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- Veterans’ Home: The Vermont Veterans Home is expected to get a federal grant of almost $1 million. Joseph Krawczyk Jr., chairman of the home’s board of trustees, said it was “great” to hear from Sen. Sanders that the project was now on the VA’s priority list. “Sen. Sanders has always been a great supporter, not just of the veterans home, but of veterans overall throughout the country and we’re really happy he comes from Vermont,” Krawczyk told the Rutland Herald.
- White House ’16: Sen. Bernie Sanders will decide by March whether to run for president, according to an Associated Press report published on the front pages of Saturday editions of the Times Argus, Rutland Herald, Brattleboro Reformer, Bennington Banner, Valley News and inside Saturday’s Burlington Free Press and St. Albans Messenger.
