Issue: December 2024-January 2025
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Taxing times in Vermont
Election results add to pressure for school funding changes By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer The debate over school funding in Vermont is gaining new urgency after an election that wiped out Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature. Even as the Democratic presidential ticket was carrying the state by more than 30 percentage read more
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Election 2024 Results
Push for ranked-choice ballots gains traction nationally, locally Here are the results of the Nov. 5 election for federal and state offices across the region. Winning candidates are in boldface type if the outcome is not in dispute. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). Uncontested races are not shown.Statewide results for the presidential race read more
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The spirit of living in the moment
Saratoga entrepreneur leaves legal career to make organic tequila Lisa Elovich, right, the owner and founder of the One With Life brand of organic tequila, is joined by Joyce Perry, director of Whispering Willow Wild Care, and the barred owl Ophelia at an event held in November at All Star Wine & Spirits in read more
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Women who reshaped life and art
In portraits, illustrator Anita Kunz reveals a sisterhood across time, space The artist and illustrator Anita Kunz has created nearly 300 portraits of women, some famed and others little known, who shaped the course of history or made important contributions to the arts, science and other fields. “Original Sisters” opened in November at the read more
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A Saratoga senator who led a governor’s impeachment
After 20 rounds of balloting, delegates from Washington, Saratoga and Schenectady counties remained deadlocked as they attempted to nominate a candidate for New York’s newly redrawn 28th Senate District, with each county’s delegates backing their own favorite son. Schenectady County, with five delegates, consistently voted for Austin A. Yates at the Republican nominating convention, which read more