Frank Mazur
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South Burlington, VT 05403
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a Collection of Political Editorials 
by Former Vermont State Rep. Frank Mazur

COMMENTARIES & LEGISLATIVE UPDATES

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Current Articles & News:

Freedom, Not Climate, is At Risk (03/08)

Misdirected spending...our infrastructure suffers! (08/07)

Vermont's State Highway ranking (07/07)

Vermont’s growth w/ non-profits (06/07)

Energy Bill H.520 VETO (06/07)

Economic Development -- More Promise than Performance (05/07)

Mr. Taxman, Spare Me a Dime!  (04/07)

Global Warming?  (03/07)

Tax Relief with Self Discipline (02/07)

Ice Age or Global Warming?  (01/07)

Keeping our Youth in Vermont (12/06)

Soak the Rich! (10/06)

Railroading Taxpayers (09/06)

Vermont is Out of Sync (09/06)

Are Vermont's Pensions Funding Terror? (08/06)

Housing Affordability (07/06)

Vermont’s Fiscal Joyride (06/06)
 


Frank Mazur met Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt and Governor Jim Douglas at the Pandemic Planning Summit in South Burlington (1/12/06).  Sec. Leavitt was the featured speaker explaining how America is planning for the Influenza Pandemic and applauding Vermont for its commitment and preparedness.

More Photos


Health Care Reform Boomerang (05/06)

Sibling Rivalry: New Hampshire vs. Vermont (04/06)

Affordable Vermont? (03/06)

FairTax: Abolishes the IRS (02/06)

Stop the “Waterfall” (01/06)

Coming Rapidly: Consumer Driven Health Care (12/05)

Who’s in Control of Our Schools? (11/05)

Vermont’s Budget: Bottomless Pit? (10/05)

Education Excellence??!!! (09/05)

Medicaid: A Time to Change Direction (09/05)

Creative Reform for Health Care Crisis (07/05)

Vote with Your Feet (06/05)

Telecommunications not a Municipal Business (06/05)

Teachers’ Pay (05/05)

Health Insurance: A Way to Make it Accessible (03/05)

Education Spending in Vermont  (02/05)

Health Insurance Boon to Vermonters (01/05)

Genetically Modified Crops (12/04)

District Survey - August-October, 2004 (11/04)

The Circumferential Highway: A Vital Transportation Project (11/04)
 



Gov. Jim  Douglas, Cindy Burbank of the Federal Highway Administration and Rep. Frank Mazur spoke at the ceremonial groundbreaking for Section A of the Circumferential Highway in Williston on 12/17/03.  Ms. Burbank, a native Vermoter, represented Federal Highway Administrator Mary Peters who missed the event because of weather and flight conflicts.


Education Issues:

Public_Education (08/03)

Court Ruling on the Unfairness of Act 60 (09/02)

Charter Schools: How have they progressed? (07/02)

House Passes Expanded School Choice & Act 60 Reform (04/02)

Higher Education - Publicly Accountable (11/01)

Dollars and Sense in Education (09/01)

Act 60 Update (05/01)

Teachers' Health Benefits (04/01)

Act 60 Tax Burden (10/00)

Saving Our Students - Quality Education (9/00)

Education (12/99)
 


Health Care Issues:

Competition in Health Insurance & Health Savings Account Progress (10/04)

Why a Re-Insurance Pool? (09/04)

Prescription Drug Savings for Seniors (09/04)

Health Care Reform versus Single-payer (04/04)

Reformation of Health Care (03/04)

Medisave Press Release (01/04)

Medicare Reform, Education Tax Reduction (12/03)

Re-importation of Prescription Drugs: The Uproar (12/03)

Health Cost Control: Prevention (10/03)

National Association on Prescription Drug Prices - Update (07/03)

Health Oversight in Vermont (04/03)

Prescription Drug Discount Cards (09/02)

Health Care Costs (08/02)

Government Control in Health Care - Medicaid (H.765) (05/02)

Medical Marijuana (03/02)

Mid-February Legislative Update & a look at Pharmaceutical Issues (02/02)

Health Insurance & Addiction Study Committees (01/02)

Medicaid crisis in Vermont (08/01)

Market Driven Health Care Reform (07/01)

Prescription Drugs (05/01)

Health Care News Interview with Rep. Mazur (03/01)

Health Insurance Reform (02/01)

Long Term Care Threatens Prosperity (7/00)

The Politics of Prescription Drugs (6/00)

Drug Costs & Politics

Choice vs State Control of Health Insurance

Health Costs, Access, Competition

New Health Insurance Direction

Community Rating in Vermont
 


Fiscal Policy:

Our Tax Burden! (08/04)

We’re Free? Close… Tax Freedom Day (07/04)

Vermont Ranks Poor in Spending: 1992-2000 & Vermont’s Personal Income Tax (11/03)

The FY04 Budget & South Burlington’s a Golden Egg (06/03)

Vermont’s Tight Budget (01/03)

Survey Ranks Vermont Unfriendly to Small Business (10/02)

A Living Wage Option - A Hand Up (07/02)

Fiscal Year ’03 Budget (06/02)

House Budget '03 (04/02)

Vermont Tax Burden (12/01)

Is Vermont’s Government Affordable? (10/01)

Vermont’s Business Climate (07/01)

The House Budget for FY02 (04/01)

FY01 Budget Adjustment (02/01)

How Does Vermont Compare? (12/00)

Tobacco Money; Free Money (9/00)

Surplus Politics (8/00)

A Republican's View on the House Budget (3/00)

Report Card on Vermont #4; NH vs VT
 


More Articles: 

Marijuana and Teens (11/04)

Gasoline Prices (08/04)

Politics versus Common Sense (06/04)

My Tribute to Ronald Reagan (06/04)

Bridge A Road to Recovery (03/04)

Crane Permits, Electric Cars & Homeowners “Tax” Form (11/03)

Nature’s Power: Blowing in the Wind (10/03)

Seat Belt Law Change & Credit Cards (09/03)

Rocky Roads and Bridges (09/03)

ALEC Annual Conference 2003 (08/03)

Water Resources Board decision promotes sprawl, harms waters by Jeff Wennberg, Commissioner Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (06/03)

Iraq, Alternatives to Act 60, NELA Update  (03/03)

Act 60 Tax Revolt, Commuter Rail & NELA (03/03)

Help for Substance Abusers & Shelburne Road & Circumferential Highway Status (02/03)

2002 States and National Policy Summit (12/02)

2002 Legislative Survey Results (Parts I & II) (11/02)

November Election: Which Direction? (10/02)

Legislative Update: ALEC Annual Conference (09/02)

Mazur to Run for Legislature Again (07/02)

IBM Appreciation & Legislators Thank Taxpayers (05/02)

2001 Annual Legislative Survey Results (11/01)

Corrections Update (10/01)

Reflections - September, 2001 (09/01)

Mazur Joins Heartland Advisory Board (08/01)

Vermont in the 21st Century (01/01)

ALEC Summit (12/00)

E-Government (9/00)

Year 2000 District Survey Results (10/00)

American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Meeting (8/00)

Cable and the Internet in Vermont (7/00)

The Corrections Crisis (6/00)

Mazur Seeks Re-Election to State Legislature (6/00)

South Burlington 2000 Doyle Poll Results

Civil Unions

1999 District Survey Results
 


Legislative Updates:
MAZUR SEEKS RE-ELECTION (06/04)

Legislative Update - July, 2004 (07/04)

2004 Legislative Wrap Up (05/04)

Vermont General Assembly honors the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation on their 50th Anniversary (05/04)

Budget and Politics (04/04)

Legislative Update & Specialty Hospitals (03/04)

March '04 Update: Queen City Park, Long Term Care, Legislative Bills, & Education Report Card (03/04)

Feb '04 Update: Technology Center, Governor’s Budget, South Burlington
Transportation Projects & South Burlington “Factoids” (02/04)

2004 Legislative Session Opens, Transportation Seminar (01/04)

2003 Legislative Accomplishments (07/03)

Update: Act 60 Reform, Transportation Budget & Higher Education Vacancy (06/03)

Update: Memorial Day, Pay Act, Act 60 Reform, & Route 7 Upgrade Status (05/03)

Update: Act 60, Prescription Drugs, & Circ Highway (05/03)

Transportation and Act 60 Update (04/03)

Permit Process, Big Bill & Road Project Status (04/03)

Legislative Update: Budget & Health Insurance Reform, Doyle Poll  (02/03)

Legislative Update 01/03 (01/03)

Post Session Activity (10/02)

Legislative Report Card: Vermont House 2001-2002 (06/02)

Mid-February Legislative Update (02/02)

Mid-Session Legislative Update - March, 2002 (03/02)

Legislative Update - Early February, 2002 (02/02)

Legislative Update - ALEC (08/01)

Legislative Year in Review (06/01)

Legislative Update - Mid-March 2001 (03/01)

Legislative Update - Early March, 2001 (03/01)

Legislative Update - January 2001 (01/01)

2000 Legislative Year in Review (06/00)





Maj. (VT) Frank Mazur greets Army vice Chief of Staff Gen. Dick Cody to Camp Johnson. 
Gen. Cody, who was born in Montpelier, was the keynote speaker to a MIA.POW event on 17 September 2005.

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On December 7, 2005 former State Rep. Frank Mazur met with Secretary Elaine L. Chao 
at her office Washington to talk about data on union financial activity and pension reform.


Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie congratulates Ernest Pomerleau and GBIC President Frank Cioffi (R to L) on GBIC’s 50th anniversary as Rep. Frank Mazur looks on.  A bipartisan resolution introduced by Rep. Mazur was read in the House honoring that GBIC milestone. Article here


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