True Vermont

Considering the public outcry over the drug-related murder of Carlos Vasquez this spring, complete with a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in Rutland, it is curious that a similar incident involving local men provoked no such outcry.  In November of 2005 four Fair Haven men took a gun to Burlington with the intent to rob [...]

Following drug related violence in Rutland, much of it associated with out of state drug dealers, the knee-jerk reaction by Governor Douglas and Sen. Kevin Mullin was a call to increase criminal penalties, but no one is apparently looking at what’s happening with the penalties already on the books.  A case in point is the [...]