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• Rebecca Foster: Button Up Vermont demonstrates power of partnership

  09-12-2018 23:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Rebecca Foster, who is the director of Efficiency Vermont. 
  Vermont has a steep climb to meet its 2020 goal of insulating and air sealing 80,000 homes. It’s a worthy cause to make Vermont homes more affordable, more comfortable, and more sustainable. But on our current trajectory we’ll only meet about half of that goal; it’s clear we have a lot of work to do to accelerate Vermont’s weatherization effort.
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• Nursing home beds in short supply in the Upper Valley

  09-12-2018 20:51 via vtdigger.org
  Cassandra Gilmore, a support staff member at Bradford Oasis Home and Respite, walks with resident Tina Libbey and Mia the dog in September 2017, in Bradford. Photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley News
  This story by Nora Doyle-Burr was published by the Valley News on Dec. 1, 2018.LEBANON — Some Upper Valley hospital patients who are ready to be discharged and transferred to places more appropriate — and less costly — for the care they need are unable to leave because there are simply n
  
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• Then Again: A bootlegging gone bad launched career of Vermont’s first woman lieutenant governor

  09-12-2018 20:50 via vtdigger.org
  The 1926 murder trial of Walter Mason put prosecutor Consuelo Bailey in the limelight. Items related to the trial — Bailey’s handwritten notes, court summons for witnesses and newspaper clippings — are housed at Special Collections at the University of Vermont’s Bailey-Howe Library. Photo by Mark Bushnell
  Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.&
  
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• Moats: When the subjective overrides the objective

  09-12-2018 20:09 via vtdigger.org
   
  Editor’s note: David Moats, an author and journalist who lives in Salisbury, is a regular columnist for VTDigger. He is editorial page editor emeritus of the Rutland Herald, where he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for a series of editorials on Vermont’s civil union law.
  It is a frequently repeated truism that Donald Trump is a narcissist, but if that is true, how did someone with such a repellant trait gain the highest office in the land, and what does it even mean to say someon
  
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• Making it in Vermont: Showcasing Vermont’s industrial side

  09-12-2018 19:50 via vtdigger.org
  An industrial computer in Logic Supply’s manufacturing facility in South Burlington. Photo courtesy of Logic Supply.
  Making it in Vermont is an ongoing series by VTDigger’s business reporter Anne Wallace Allen looking at companies and industries driving innovation in the state. If you have ideas about inspiring entrepreneurs or companies, send them to Anne at [email protected].
  If you ask people outside Vermont to name the state’s largest export, nine out of 10 will sa
  
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• New mental health commissioner to tackle ‘major challenges’

  09-12-2018 19:25 via vtdigger.org
  Incoming Mental Health Commissioner Sarah Squirrell. Courtesy photoSarah Squirrell is taking a job that not everyone would want.
  But Squirrell, currently the executive director of Building Bright Futures, says she is up to the challenge of improving Vermont’s overburdened mental health treatment system when she becomes the state’s next mental health commissioner on Jan. 1.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never miss our health care coverage with our weekly headlines in yo
  
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• Report: Vermont has lost child care capacity

  09-12-2018 17:33 via vtdigger.org
  Reeva Murphy of DCF. File photo by Amy Ash Nixon/VTDigger
  Child care capacity in Vermont’s regulated market fell by 7 percent between 2015 and 2018, mostly because of a precipitous decline in home-based providers, a new report from the Joint Fiscal Office found.
  Legislators asked for the report last session to get a better picture of Vermont’s shifting early education landscape. It includes data on child care capacity for kids ages 0 to 5 by county, age and type of provider.
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• Leahy, Welch call for Trump AG nominee to protect Mueller probe

  09-12-2018 16:11 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch at the Vermont Democrats’ election night headquarters. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerAfter President Donald Trump nominated William Barr to be the new attorney general on Friday, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., voiced concern that Barr would not protect the special counsel’s investigation.
  Almost a month to the day after former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced out, Trump called announced his new pick for the p
  
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• Donovan joins brief challenging Trump asylum ban

  09-12-2018 15:42 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerAttorney General TJ Donovan joined a multi-state coalition in support of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenging President Donald Trump’s order imposing severe restrictions on asylum seekers.
  The ACLU suit, filed in federal court in San Francisco in November, challenges the efforts by Trump’s administration to bar people who enter the country by illegally crossing the U.S.-Mex
  
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