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• 🔊 Listen Now: What Governor Scott's Marijuana Commission Might Tell Us buff.ly/2x6boD3 #VT #vtpoli

  17-09-2017 22:33 via twitter.com
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• Vermont agencies accused of discriminating against patient

  17-09-2017 20:32 via vtdigger.org
  Inside Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. Photo by Cory Dawson/VTDiggerThe Vermont Human Rights Commission says the state discriminated against a woman in psychiatric crisis when she was placed in the solitary confinement at a correctional facility instead of a psychiatric hospital.
  The commission ruled on Aug. 24 that the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Corrections, and their umbrella Agency of Human Services, all discriminated against the woman.
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• Weston Playhouse set to open $6.3 million second home

  17-09-2017 20:19 via vtdigger.org
  The interior of the Weston Playhouse’s $6.3 million second home now under construction will hold up to 140 seats. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerWESTON — Once upon a time Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney only had to see a barn to start shouting “let’s put on a show!”The Weston Playhouse, set to open a $6.3 million second stage and community center beside the silos of the nearby Walker Farm, needed a little more help.
  Vermont’s oldest professional theater
  
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• Shumlin to speak about health care at Harvard on Tuesday

  17-09-2017 20:01 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Peter Shumlin delivers his farewell address to the Legislature on Wednesday. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerFormer Gov. Peter Shumlin will speak at Harvard on Tuesday about lessons he learned from his failed effort to create a single-payer health care system.Shumlin, who served as governor from 2011 to 2017, promised a single-payer health care system for Vermont when he ran for governor. He abandoned that plan in December 2014 after determining the taxes to support it would be too high.S
  
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• First person: How a reporter’s photos were deleted at the Vermont border

  17-09-2017 19:51 via vtdigger.org
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s border crossing in Highgate. Photo courtesy U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionThis Labor Day, the line of vehicles at the U.S. border from Quebec into Vermont stretched five lanes wide — each with a backlog of many dozen cars. The queue moved toward the Highgate Springs Station with the slow motion jerkiness of a wound-down robot. 
  What began as routine inconvenience would end with border agents seemingly misrepresenting the law and comm
  
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• First person: How a reporter’s photos were confiscated at the Vermont border

  17-09-2017 19:51 via vtdigger.org
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s border crossing in Highgate. Photo courtesy U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionThis Labor Day, the line of vehicles at the U.S. border from Quebec into Vermont stretched five lanes wide — each with a backlog of many dozen cars. The queue moved toward the Highgate Springs Station with the slow motion jerkiness of a wound-down robot. 
  What began as routine inconvenience would end with border agents seemingly misrepresenting the law and comm
  
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• First person: How a reporter’s phone was confiscated at the Vermont border

  17-09-2017 19:51 via vtdigger.org
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s border crossing in Highgate. Photo courtesy U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionThis Labor Day, the line of vehicles at the U.S. border from Quebec into Vermont stretched five lanes wide — each with a backlog of many dozen cars. The queue moved toward the Highgate Springs Station with the slow motion jerkiness of a wound-down robot. 
  What began as routine inconvenience would end with border agents seemingly misrepresenting the law and comm
  
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• Rutland auto shop wins $41,737 from Nationwide in ‘short-pay’ lawsuit

  17-09-2017 19:01 via vtdigger.org
  ScreenshotRUTLAND – A Rutland auto repair shop has won a more than $40,000 verdict against a national insurance company involving dozens of people.
  The insurer was accused of not paying enough to cover needed repairs to vehicles.
  Parker’s Classic Auto Works filed a lawsuit against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, an Ohio-based company, in 2015. Following a recent two-day jury trial in Rutland Superior Court, a jury awarded the auto shop $41,737.
  The case is part of an ongoing cam
  
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• Then Again: Betting on the wrong iron horse

  17-09-2017 19:00 via vtdigger.org
  The Burlington home built by Timothy Follett was a testament to his wealth. It still stands today. Wiki Commons photo(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.)
  The home – really almost a Greek temple, with its six massive white columns – perches over the Burlington waterfront. For years it served as more than a home; it was testament to the business savvy of one of Vermont’s leading citizens.
  Timothy Follett had become fantastically wealth
  
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• Dartmouth College endowment hits new high

  17-09-2017 18:48 via vtdigger.org
  Dartmouth Hall at Dartmouth College. Photo by Geoff Hansen/Valley NewsEditor’s note: This story by Rob Wolfe first appeared in the Valley News on Sept. 15.HANOVER — Dartmouth College this week reported a 10.2 percent growth in its endowment for the fiscal year that ended in June, bringing the fund to an all-time high of $4.96 billion after a slight drop in fiscal 2016.
  Administrators said the endowment growth came mostly from the college’s investments, which grew 14.6 percent f
  
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• We spoke on Friday with @VermontSOS Jim Condos. Find the podcast audio of that conversation here: dlvr.it/PnFG8w #VT #vtpoli

  17-09-2017 18:17 via twitter.com
  We spoke on Friday with @VermontSOS Jim Condos. Find the podcast audio of that conversation here: dlvr.it/PnFG8w #VT #vtpoli
  
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• Donovan, Condos lead forum on federalism vs states’ rights

  17-09-2017 13:58 via vtdigger.org
  Bennington College students, faculty and area residents listen to Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan and Secretary of State Jim Condos during a forum at Bennington College Thursday on the rights of states when they conflict with the policies of the federal government. VTDigger photo by Jim Therrien.BENNINGTON — The enduring power struggle between the federal and state governments is reaching yet another fever pitch, according to two top Vermont officials, but they said the Constitution
  
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• Donovan, Condos lead forum on federal versus states’ rights

  17-09-2017 13:58 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan. File photo by Jasper Craven/VTDiggerBENNINGTON — The enduring power struggle between the federal and state governments is reaching yet another fever pitch, according to two top Vermont officials.
  Attorney General T.J. Donovan and Secretary of State Jim Condos spoke at Bennington College about the tug-of-war between the federal government and states’ rights, which predates the Constitution in 1789 and was the overarching issue during the convention
  
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• Lake Carmi closed because of algae bloom

  17-09-2017 12:48 via vtdigger.org
  An outbreak of blue-green algae has closed Lake Carmi in northern Vermont.A toxic cyanobacteria bloom has kept Lake Carmi in northern Vermont closed for the past three weeks, and officials are hoping to introduce oxygen into the lake as a short-term fix.
  The blue-green algae results from excessive phosphorus in the lake, most of it originating in manure and industrial fertilizers spread by dairy farmers in the area.The lake has been under a federal order since 2009 to slash the amount of phospho
  
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• Lake Carmi closed after algae bloom

  17-09-2017 12:48 via vtdigger.org
  An outbreak of blue-green algae has closed Lake Carmi in northern Vermont.A toxic cyanobacteria bloom has kept Lake Carmi in northern Vermont closed for the last three weeks, and officials are hoping to introduce oxygen into the lake as a short-term fix.
  The blue-green algae results from excessive phosphorus in the lake, most of it originating in manure and industrial fertilizers spread by dairy farmers in the lake’s watershed.The lake has been under a federal order since 2009 to slash the
  
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• State claims Vermont Yankee buyer would use explosives

  17-09-2017 12:20 via vtdigger.org
  The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on the shore of the Connecticut River in Vernon. Photo courtesy of the Nuclear Regulatory CommissionVERNON – Will explosives be used to demolish radioactive structures at Vermont Yankee?
  It depends on who you ask.
  State officials have filed testimony claiming NorthStar Group Services, which wants to buy and decommission the idled nuclear plant, plans to use explosives on “at least one” contaminated building. The department is raising conce
  
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• Group seeks to boost outdoor recreation and local economy

  17-09-2017 12:04 via vtdigger.org
  Nearly 100 people attended the Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative’s first public workshop in Waterbury Tuesday night. Photo by Mike Polhamus/VTDiggerWATERBURY — Nearly 100 enthusiasts gathered here to help a new state collaborative capitalize on outdoor recreational opportunities in Vermont.
  The Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative is meant to unite disparate recreational groups as part of an effort to improve tourism prospects. The collaborative is an eco
  
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• Group seeks to boost outdoor recreation

  17-09-2017 12:04 via vtdigger.org
  Nearly 100 people turned out for the Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative’s first public workshop in Waterbury Tuesday night. Photo by Mike Polhamus/VTDiggerA collaborative aiming to capitalize on Vermont’s outdoors gathered with enthusiasm this week, with nearly 100 people crowded into an undersized room in a Waterbury hotel for the effort’s first workshop.Created by an executive order from Gov. Phil Scott, the Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative is
  
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