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• News Match 2017 challenges VTDigger supporters to raise $28,000

  07-10-2017 20:09 via vtdigger.org
  Now through Dec. 31, 2017, individual donations up to $1,000 each to VTDigger will be doubled by News Match partners, including Democracy Fund, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
  “We want 2017 to be a record-setting year for donations to news to ensure that innovative, nonprofit newsrooms have the resources they need to deliver high-quality reporting to the communities they serve,” said Josh Stearns, Associate Director f
  
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• Help VTDigger match $28,000 from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and Democracy Fund

  07-10-2017 20:09 via vtdigger.org
  Now through Dec. 31, 2017, individual donations up to $1,000 each to VTDigger will be doubled by News Match partners, including Democracy Fund, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
  “We want 2017 to be a record-setting year for donations to news to ensure that innovative, nonprofit newsrooms have the resources they need to deliver high-quality reporting to the communities they serve,” said Josh Stearns, Associate Director f
  
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• Justices have faith church will get to retain funding from town

  07-10-2017 01:47 via vtdigger.org
  Justice Beth Robinson speaks during a Vermont Supreme Court hearing. Pool file photo by April McCullum/Burlington Free PressThe Vermont Supreme Court said Friday that the town of Cabot is likely on safe legal footing in its bid to spend $10,000 to renovate a local church.The justices said a lower court isn’t likely to agree with two men challenging the expenditure as an unconstitutional religious subsidy, so the town can go ahead while a lawsuit is resolved. A lower court had barred Cabot
  
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• Walt Amses: Deadly equation — CTE + TBI = DOA

  07-10-2017 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
  Since the death by suicide while serving a life sentence for murder and subsequent post-mortem diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE in former New England Patriot tight end Aaron Hernandez, there has been much speculation on the role his deteriorating brain played in his having hanged himself in his cell last March. Yet there has been very little dialogue about how his CTE may have contributed to
  
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• Bob Stannard: Why cut taxes now?

  07-10-2017 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bob Stannard, an author, musician and former lobbyist. This piece first appeared in the Bennington Banner.
  You’re sitting around tallying up your monthly obligations and comparing them to your monthly income. With both you and your partner working, you are able to cover your bills and have a little — very little — left over. Yes, you’re in debt. You owe on your home, your car and your student loans, but you’re able (sort of
  
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• Elayne Clift: Growing smaller while supersizing

  07-10-2017 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Elayne Clift who lives and writes in Saxtons River.
  When I was a kid, our hero was Superman, the mild-mannered guy who brought petty criminals to justice while flying around in a cape. Today’s heroes are animated, mechanized, robotic super heroes who battle inter-galactically for control of the universe.
  Remember when movies simply had stars we loved to watch? (In my day, it was Bogie and Bacall, Cary Grant and Sophia Loren). Now, it seems all act
  
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• UVM student facing charge over alleged racist threats

  07-10-2017 00:28 via vtdigger.org
  Annie Stevens, left, UVM vice provost for student affairs, and Lianne Tuomey, chief of the UVM Police Department, answer reporters’ questions Friday. Photo by Morgan True/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — A University of Vermont student was cited on a charge of disorderly conduct this week after someone reported overhearing him using racist and threatening language.
  The allegations come at a time of escalating racial tensions on campus and nationwide. UVM students recently gathered in protest to
  
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