Ben Traverse
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dad / #BTV Ward 5 City Councilor
Burlington, VT
Joined November 2008
Vermont just passed its biggest pro-housing bill ever. CHIP will unlock up-to-$2B in infrastructure for new homes—without raising local taxes. Proud that Let’s Build Homes helped make it happen in our first session. A win for housing abundance. 🏘️ https://t.co/zKGPZmLUTO
sevendaysvt.com
The breakthrough came after House members agreed to expand the scale of the proposed Community and Housing Infrastructure Program.
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I was incredibly disturbed watching the video of Tufts student, Rumeysa Ozturk, picked up on the street by ICE. I’m even more disturbed + shocked she was held in Vermont, in what seems like an effort to defy a Mass Fed. Court order to review her case. https://t.co/CeCgjt8mjn
wbur.org
A Tufts graduate student from Turkey was moved from Massachusetts to Vermont and then Louisiana after being arrested according prosecutors who are challenging a federal judge's authority to review...
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Any comment on this, @marcorubio? How about you, @JDVance? @elonmusk? You just admitted to accidentally sending an innocent father from Maryland to a torture dungeon in El Salvador. And you refuse to do anything about it. https://t.co/TCykWFQH4Z
theatlantic.com
The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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Proud to launch Let's Build Homes—a statewide coalition of residents, employers and nonprofits united to create housing abundance for Vermonters of all backgrounds and incomes while preserving the state’s unique character and cherished landscape 🏡 https://t.co/8plgWezSQi
sevendaysvt.com
Private businesses, banks, hospitals and nonprofits formed Let's Build Homes to speed up the construction of badly needed housing in Vermont.
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An extra hour of sleep can’t make up for how tired I am of having to roll back the clocks for the darkest days in the coldest months. Let's make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
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Burlington continues to struggle with public safety challenges. We must do more to protect our community. It has been a decade since #BTV voters supported a charter change to ban guns from our bars, but the Legislature still has not taken action on the measure. (2/3)
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It pains me to hear of the shooting last night in downtown #BTV. I'm very sorry for the victim, their loved ones, and all impacted. I'm grateful to our first responders and the professional response from our police officers and firefighters. @OneNorthAvenue @BTVfire (1/3)
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Boil water notice in effect for large part of south end in #btv. Please visit for updates, faq's, translations and refinements to the map as they are made. https://t.co/V15lTpKZcO
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With high temperatures forecasted for this week, Burlington will activate neighborhood cooling centers from Sunday, 7/14, to Tuesday, 7/16.
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I know this week has been 200 years, and there’s a lot to process, but our fellow Vermonters in Peacham were absolutely walloped in the 7/10 storm. To do something good and feel a little better, help with their recovery with a small donation here: https://t.co/7UlNSL1kuX
gofundme.com
PEACHAM EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND The Peacham Emergency Relief Fund (P… Margaret Maclean needs your support for Help Peacham Residents Recover from hardships.
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Thank you @RunVermont, all the volunteers, @MandT_Bank, @OneNorthAvenue, @BTVfire, and everyone else who partnered in putting on another amazing Marathon Sunday. Burlington at its best. #BTV
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Burlington breakfast and brunch hot spot The Café HOT. adds a late-night menu. https://t.co/jQjCMfr1NK
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5 minutes in 10 seconds… Really hard to capture the magnitude of this celestial event with a tiny drone, but here you go! #Eclipse2024 over #btv
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Absolutely breathtaking time lapse of the #eclipse from Burlington, VT!! Wow! @NWSBurlington
#Eclipse2024
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Well there you have it, #OrganizationDay2024 is in the books! - Emma Mulvaney-Stanak is officially Mayor - Ben Traverse is City Council President Here’s hoping for a collaborative and productive council session! #btv #btvcc #vtpoli
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