Tag search result for: Vermont

Perdue to lead Obama forum

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:18:32 -0500

Gov. Beverly Perdue will lead one of the Obama administration's five regional discussions on health reform.

Perdue, who was a hospital administrator and health consultant before entering politics, will lead a discussion in Greensboro on March 31st. Other sites will be in California, Iowa, Michigan and Vermont, Rob Christensen reports.

Cooper names new consumer watchdog

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:09:06 -0500

Julie Brill, an assistant attorney general from Vermont, is replacing newly-elected state Sen. Josh Stein as the state's top consumer watchdog.

Attorney General Roy Cooper has hired Brill to be the head of his Consumer Protection Division. She has been working in the Vermont Attorney General's Consumer Protection and Antitrust divisions since October 1991, Dan Kane reports.

The scoop on latest endorsement

bkrueger — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:10:59 -0500

John Edwards is getting the ice cream vote.

Edwards announced tonight that he has been endorsed by Ben & Jerry's co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, as well as a handful of other business, labor and political leaders from Vermont.