This Week's Issue: Parks, Prostitution, PATRIOTs and Pipes
In this week's wood pulp-and-ink edition of Seven Days:
- Burlington's Parks and Recreation Department has struggled with management and morale problems for years. Can the new director, Jesse Bridges, right the ship?
- Following last week's cover-story exposé on prostitution in Asian massage parlors in Chittenden County, two of the establishments closed their doors, while a third is still accepting customers. Police have yet to visit any of the parlors, and seem uncertain about how to respond to what could be human trafficking. (Curiously, the adult site that listed the sexual services available at these parlors, Rubmaps.com, appears to be down).
- As downpours intensify, Burlington's storm-water system is fast becoming overwhelmed. Public works employees are working on a fix, but it could be expensive.
- And in Fair Game: U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy is cosponsoring legislation in response to the NSA phone records scandal that would make public rulings by a secretive surveillance court. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders takes on ... the Vermont ski industry? And Gov. Peter Shumlin's real-estate troubles take a political turn.
- Need something lighter? How about a Segway tour, little free libraries, Revolutionary War reenactors or eating without a gallbladder?
