ACLU holds Big Read of materials government held from the public for many years
For immediate release March 30, 2010 Contact: Allen Gilbert, ACLU-VT executive director, 223-6304, x115 BURLINGTON — Librarians, professors, students, lawyers, writers, and others will read from government memos and personal testimonies in a program “Reckoning with Torture” Monday, April 12 at 7 p.m. at the Memorial Lounge of the Waterman Building on the University of [...]
Legislative changes to Vermont’s current use law in flux
Lawson argued that a fair market value appraisal of ten acres should not be appraised as if they were a subdivision.
Q & A with Shap Smith: Some Challenge initiatives ‘won’t get out of the starting gate’
We have a responsibility to make sure we have a balanced budget, and we’ve always known in a year like this we’d have to make difficult choices.
Up to the Challenge? Vermont’s restructuring plan comes with blurry details; human services target $6M short
Evslin said the teams focused on the content of the outcomes rather than the money they were faced with saving in each area of government.
Greenpeace and Dr. Helen Caldicott underscores health impacts of Vermont Yankee
Vermont Yankee is one of the oldest and most dangerous nuclear facilities in the country. It has released tritium, cesium, manganese and zinc into the soil.
Should Vermont pursue single-payer based on federal reform?
Sanders advisor: If Vermont passes legislation to set up a single payer system, it will provide added leverage for us to get this change adopted.
Recent tritium reading mischaracterized in news reports as a new source of tritium. It is not.
Entergy Vermont Yankee has not organized nor is it participating in a closed, tritium-related meeting on April 14 between the NRC and state officials.
Markowitz blasts Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s plan to hold closed-door meeting
“I find it shocking and somewhat offensive that a federal official has said that he is purposely holding a meeting out of state to try to avoid an open government law.”
Coakley report on Massachusetts health care spending may hold lessons for Vermont
At $2.5 trillion a year, health care costs in 2009 consumed almost 17.3 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.
New appeals process could give Vermont wind projects a boost
The bill would give developers of projects above 1,500 feet a right to petition the PSB for a waiver on obtaining storm water discharge permits.
