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At 11th Hour, Burlington City Council Approves Redistricting Plan

by Charles Eichacker on December 17, 2013 at 12:09PM

Earning itself a small round of applause last night, the Burlington City Council eked out a redistricting plan for Burlington voters to decide on next March. Known as the “8-4-12 plan,” the new map divides the city into eight wards and four larger “precincts,” each represented by one councilor.

This Week's Issue: Union Drives, Big-Money Developers and a Long Time in the Clink

by Tyler Machado on November 20, 2013 at 5:17PM

Another week, another Wednesday, another Seven Days. Here's this week's lineup of news and politics stories:In response to employment-status changes that could strip them of some benefits, several Sodexo food-service workers at local colleges are considering a union drive.Norman Stevens is the first Vermonter sentenced to life without parole for a crime that wasn't murder.

VPR Interactive Tracks FEMA Irene Relief Money

by Tyler Machado on June 17, 2013 at 9:53AM

As the geek-in-residence at Seven Days, I love it when an online news story comes with a good interactive or multimedia element — a "news app," as the cool kids say. That and I have a laughably tiny attention span, such that pushing buttons is more appealing than reading 3000 words (don't tell my bosses).

Nerding Out With Maps: Post-Election Edition

by Paul Heintz on November 9, 2012 at 10:56AM

Maps are cool! Especially these maps created by Stone Environmental's Charlie Hofmann for the Vermont Secretary of State's elections web site.

Burlington's Neighborhoods, Mapped By You: The Results

by Tyler Machado on October 25, 2012 at 8:37PM

Remember that crowdsourced neighborhood-mapping project in Burlington you read about back in August? Well, cartographer Bill Morris now has the results.

This Week's Issue: High-Tech Cops and Henry Rollins

by Tyler Machado on October 24, 2012 at 4:24PM

In this week's Tech Jam-celebrating issue of Seven Days, now available on your newsstands and your Internets... Is it necessarily a bad thing when a locally-owned, homegrown tech company sells to an out-of-state corporation? Burlington Police had an expensive, ineffective computer system for tracking crime.

Mapping Out the Democratic Attorney General Primary Results

by Tyler Machado on September 7, 2012 at 4:35PM

One of the storylines heading into last week's Democratic attorney general primary was that Chittenden County state's attorney T.J. Donovan might not have enough name recognition in Vermont's other 13 counties to unseat Bill Sorrell for the nomination. Of course we know now that Sorrell won the primary by a thread, but now that we have official results from the Secretary of State's office, we can see how the vote broke down geographically.

Vermont is the Most Liberal State in the Union — When It Comes to Reading

by Tyler Machado on August 30, 2012 at 6:03PM

That Vermont is among the most liberal places in the United States is not exactly a revelation. But a fun little project from Amazon.com reveals a new slice of political leanings in the Green Mountains.

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