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| https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/110215 | News November 2 | 2015-11-02 | 2015 | 2015-11 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | www.sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News November 2 Monday, November 2, 2015 Senator Sanders Mayor Sanders As Sen. Sanders campaign for the presidency unfurls, there is a surprising truth to be found in his eight-year tenure as mayor of Vermonts largest city, He turned out to be a pragmatic and efficient administrator, one so fiscally conservative that some Republicans say he managed to out-Republican the Republicans, The Boston Globe reported in a front-page story on Sunday. LINK Syria During a swing through New Hampshire, Sanders expressed skepticism about President Obamas plan to put special forces on the ground in Syria, NBCs Nightly News reported. My nightmare is that the United States once again gets caught up in a something that never ends, Sanders said. On the campaign trail, Sanders has said he is not opposed to using military force, but he believes it should only be used as a last resort. VIDEO Trick or Treat Sanders and his wife Jane greeted a few lucky Vermonters Halloween night, including a couple of Bernie look-alikes, WCAX-TV in Burlington reported. It was great to just shake his hand and get to talk to him, a giant banana said. Sanders told cameras he was dressed up as Larry David dressed up as Bernie Sanders. VIDEO World Sinai Peninsula Crash As Russia mourned the 224 victims of a charter flight that crashed over the weekend on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, investigators on Sunday began the difficult process of trying to determine whether the plane, which they said had broken up in midair, was brought down by an act of terrorism or a tragic accident, The New York Times reported. LINK National GOP Debates Several Republican presidential campaigns began mapping out new demands Sunday for greater control over the format and content of primary debates, which have attracted big audiences and become strategically critical for the 2016 cycles expansive field of contenders, The Washington Post reported. The effort was a response to long-simmering frustrations over the debates, the questions and in some cases the moderators, which boiled over this weekend when advisers from at least 11 campaigns met in the Washington suburbs to deliberate about how to regain sway over the process. LINK Vermont Pedestrians Hit Two people have been hospitalized after trying to avoid an Amtrak train in Brattleboro, WCAX-TV reported. Emergency officials say the individuals were walking on the tracks on Veteran's Bridge shortly after 1 p.m. when they spotted the train and tried to get off the tracks. One of the individuals was hit by the train, and both were hospitalized. LINK Editorial: Publics Right to Know Burlington law enforcements decision to keep from the public a courthouse sexual assault, then to castigate the news media for reporting the crime based on public documents points to a disregard for the principles of government transparency and public accountability, the Burlington Free Press editorialized. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |