Fred Briggs News Today

It may have been a grey and rainy day last Saturday, but the Laguna Beach Library's 50th-anniversary celebration made the dreary weather an afterthought. 

The significance of a St Kilda red gum, believed to be up to 800 years old, has been recorded by the Federal Court during a hearing considered the first of its kind to be held on Country in Melbourne.

'Bicycle fever' reached Lewiston in 1879, according to the Lewiston Evening Journal, and would go on to shake, rattle and roll into everyday life.

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Tonight, one very independent yankee is being sworn in for his third term as mayor. tradition or no, fred briggs reports that some new englanders find bernard sanders astonishing. they laughed at bernie sanders when he ran for mayor, not just because he was a brash outsider from brooklyn, neither republican or democrat, but because he was an avowed socialist. still is. >> to us what socialism means basically is a democracy. a society where you dont have a handful of giant banks and corporations ...

Wishes he wore neckties but it knows he wont. some day the opposition will try to recapture city hall, but more than half the voters like it the way it is and tend to think that bernie sanders, as much as the boom, put burlington on the map. fred briggs, nbc news, burlington, vermont. >> i wonder if he still has that sweater? that was april, 1985. that was when the national media started to discover this eccentric, confident, curly haired socialist mayor from burlington, vermont. for a while ber...

>> new england has a tradition of political independence going all the way back to the boston tea party. and in burlington, vermont, tonight, one very independent yankee is being sworn in for his third term as mayor. tradition or no, fred briggs reports that some new englanders find bernard sanders astonishing. they laughed at bernie sanders when he ran for mayor, not just because he was a brash outsider from brooklyn, neither republican or democrat, but because he was an avowed socialist. still...

Way it is and tend to think that bernie sanders, as much as the boom, put burlington on the map. fred briggs, nbc news, burlington, vermont. >> i wonder if he still has that sweater? that was april, 1985. that was when the national media started to discover this eccentric, confident, curly haired socialist mayor from burlington, vermont. for a while bernie sanders was just sort of an object of national media fascination. hey, are we doing a piece about all the yuppies from the cities moving to n...

Third term as mayor. tradition or no, fred briggs reports that some new englanders find bernard sanders astonishing. they laughed at bernie sanders when he ran for mayor, not just because he was a brash outsider from brooklyn, neither republican or democrat, but because he was an avowed socialist. still is. >> to us what socialism means basically is a democracy. a society where you dont have a handful of giant banks and corporations controlling the economic and political life of the nation. >> r...

politics, all anyone could talk about at that point in the campaign, the scandal of the moment, the controversy in republican politics and in the country at large, the scandal, the uproar, was about the presidents wife. and her ambitions. >> later today california governor pete wilson will announce his entry into the already crowded field of republican presidential hopefuls. mrs. clinton, hillary rodham clinton, has decided to go to china next month to take part in the international wo...