Much ado about MVP and single payer health care reform
MVP says it is not encouraging large, self-insured companies such as IBM, to leave the state if Gov. Peter Shumlin’s single-payer health care plan goes into effect.
Dunsmore: Accountability matters in debt ceiling coverage
Accountability, not false equivalency, should be mainstream media’s primary focus in debt ceiling coverage.
FEMA: Money available for household flood damage debris removal
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reminding Vermonters who suffered damages to their homes as the result of rains and flooding earlier this year that there may be additional financial assistance to remove household debris.
Right-to-know advocates decry use of Faster FOIA Act as vehicle for budget bill
The Speaker unnecessarily stripped the Faster FOIA Act from S.627, completely replacing the language with the budget bill.
Sanders: Why Americans are so angry about the debt ceiling crisis
Congress is on track to give the American people exactly what they don’t want: major cuts in the most important programs that the middle class needs and wants, and no sacrifice from the wealthy and the powerful.
Sanders: Obama should resolve debt crisis by invoking 14th Amendment
The least damaging approach might just be (as former President Bill Clinton has suggested) for President Obama to rely upon the 14th Amendment, which says the debts of the United States ‘shall not be questioned.’
Sue Allen: VTDigger.org column was “deeply troubling and misleading”
As a former journalist, I was trained to focus not on assumptions, but on facts – and to let the facts tell the story.
Hunger Mountain Co-op reaches settlement
Hunger Mountain Co-op’s health insurance costs were set to go up $130,000 this year and the management was offering to pay $75,000 of that, but sought assistance from the union with the rest.
Standards Board, Vermont NEA at odds over “blank check” teacher waiver power
On Thursday, the Vermont Standards Board for Professional Educators was granted the authority to waive its governing rules at its discretion with no public or legislative oversight.
Deen: The Big Conn, monster or myth?
One of the earliest reports comes from the History of Lordship in 1878 when an assistant engineer on the steamer State of New York said that he witnessed the head of a monster raised several feet above the waves. The head disappeared and a portion of the body formed an arc “under which it would have been easy to drive a team of oxen.”
