Digger Tidbits: Shumlin puts Sorrell on hold; rep seeks legislative say in utility merger; Romney endorsed
Town meetings take up corporate personhood; supporters raise money for Free Speech TV; Alicia Alessandro leaves the VDP
Senate approves 16-bed psychiatric facility to replace Vermont State Hospital
UPDATED The stage is now set for a contentious conference committee negotiations, which will likely take place after the town meeting break.
As Senate takes up state hospital proposal, governor issues warning
“We are running a business here in the respect that government is an operation that has to be fiscally responsible,” Shumlin said.
Lawmakers draft search and rescue legislation as outcry intensifies in aftermath of hiker’s death
“If we had had the help of a search-and-rescue team, the outcome could have been different,” Kathy Duclos, Levi Duclos’ aunt, said in a statement to the Addison Independent.
Halkias: Vote, marry, fight … then drink?
Being an adult in the eyes of the law should, for the most part, bear some consistency. The argument swirls around the age of emancipation, 18, when all parental controls legally end.
Lynn: A tragedy of misplaced priorities
But when prosecution becomes the overriding focus of the police force and serving the public is a secondary consequence of that action, you get skewed outcomes — including policies that delay search and rescue efforts on cold winter nights when a young man’s life lies in the balance.
Hebert: Experts dispute assertions fish declines Vermont Yankee’s fault
Mr. Fisk and his organization want to force Vermont Yankee to incur the unnecessary expense of operating the cooling towers year round, even during the winter months in which the intact water is less than 40 degrees. The ultimate goal is to force the closure of Vermont Yankee by any means possible.
Local communities awarded federal funds for historic preservation
For immediate release Feb. 29, 2012 Contact Diane McInerney Phone: 802-828-3540 Email:diane.mcinerney@state.vt.us MONTPELIER, Vt. – The State of Vermont is awarding $57,000 in grant funding to nine communities dedicated to local historic preservation and restoration efforts. Twelve applications were awarded funding for the current fiscal year. Federal funds through the National Park Service will be [...]
DeWalt: ‘Funding the Enemy’ details money pit that is Afghanistan
The Obama administration is counting on the big lie to convince the American people that Afghanistan will soon be another notch in our victory column, and it can ill afford the truth to be known.
Sanders holds hearing on dental crisis in America, points to Vermont successes
For immediate release Feb. 29, 2012 Contact Michael Briggs Phone: (202) 224-5141 WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 – A Senate panel heard today that millions of Americans do not have access to dentists and millions more cannot afford dental care. “As a nation, we don’t talk about it much but there is a dental crisis in America,” [...]
