Politics & Government

Helen Benedict, both a novelist and professor of journalism At Columbia University, specializes in the Iraq war, women's issues, race and literature. She is the recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2008. Women soliders are participating in combat more than ever before, but only one in ten soldiers is female, making them painfully alone, thus the title of her latest nonfiction 'The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq'.

Channel 17's Election Night Coverage

On the eve of Town Meeting Day, Rep. Peter Welch calls for a swift legislative response to the recent Citizens United Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend freely on political campaigns. Working with Rep. Chris Van Hollen and Sen. Charles Schumer, Welch announces his support for several measures to combat the Citizen United decision. Welch is joined at the press conference at the South Burlington city offices by Vermont League of Women Voters board member Vee Gordon, Vermont Public Interest Research Group executive director Paul Burns and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters vice president Paul Comey

Williston Annual Town Meeting held at the Central School.  For a warning for the meeting, visit the Williston website.