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Social Worker To Run Against Bernie Sanders in Vermont

Matthew McDonald

The 60-year-old advocate for the homeless says that U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders's pro-little-guy rhetoric is "wonderful," but that Sanders is a "vicious politician." As mayor of Burlington in the 1980s, Sanders created a homeless shelter that allowed people drunk or on drugs to stay there, which resulted a spike in the city's homeless population, says Jon Svitavsky, who plans to run against Sanders for U.S. Senate in Vermont in 2018.

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So How Much for an Island Estate in Maine?

Matthew McDonald

$7.95 million is the asking price for Hope Island in Casco Bay (not far from Portland). It includes 86 acres, a mansion, 11,000 feet of shoreline, and nine habitable buildings.

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