Margolis: Why the prescription drug database issue will be back — next session and this campaign season
The data on pharmaceutical abuse includes the guy who uses his wife’s prescription and the young tough who breaks into a pharmacy to steal drugs.
Margolis: The politics of a union drive in which the members are the bosses
The Vermont Early Educators United is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, which contributed both money and shoe-leather to Democratic campaigns in 2010.
Recycling bill might, ultimately, be too much of a good thing
Actually, all those households won’t “have to” separate the regular trash from the recyclables. But it will cost them to do otherwise.
Shumlin: Energy efficiency is ‘collective responsibility’
After the geologists left the room, Shumlin turned hard and flinty himself on the issue of the $21 million utility merger “windfall.”
Margolis: Misunderstanding over merger payback threatens to blow up into major political storm
One of the state’s shrewder political strategists speculated that the administration “has lost the communications battle” by not knowing how to explain itself to either the public or the lawmakers.
At presser, Shumlin touts “green jobs,” unemployment rates
Shumlin pointed out that he had resisted pressure from some fellow Democrats to raise “broad-based taxes.”
Vermont: The story behind the D+ transparency score
And so the Green Mountain State receives a letter grade of D+ and a numerical score of 69 ranking it 25th in the State Integrity Investigation conducted by the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International.
Margolis on Shumlin’s mud season platform
As motorists pitch from puddle to ditch this season, the governor emphasizes just how much Vermont’s roads have improved.
Margolis: In the EB-5 subculture, Jay Peak finances questioned
Jay Peak has more than 400 EB-5 investors, owner Bill Stenger said, and their investments have helped transform the property from a ski lodge into an all-weather, four-season resort with an indoor skating arena, a water slide, and golf courses.
Margolis: Voter fraud claims overblown
The reason poll workers do not demand an ID is that nobody who is ineligible to vote goes to the polls to try to cast a ballot. Well, almost nobody.

























