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• Smith: A future where unity goes viral

  12-11-2017 23:34 via vtdigger.org
  Mike Smith is a regular columnist for VTDigger. He hosts the radio program “Open Mike with Mike Smith” on WDEV 550 AM and 96.1, 96.5, 98.3 and 101.9 FM and is a political analyst for WCAX-TV and WVMT radio. He was the secretary of administration and secretary of human services under former Gov. Jim Douglas.
  Parents, teachers, mentors and others who touch the lives of our teens and young adults try to instill certain qualities meant to help them succeed as they transition into adultho
  
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• Dartmouth president: Misconduct allegations don’t involve professors’ research

  12-11-2017 22:53 via vtdigger.org
  Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon. File photo by Geoff Hansen/Valley News(This story by Rob Wolfe appeared in the Valley News on Nov. 10, 2017.)
  HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth College’s ongoing investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by three psychology professors does not involve their research, college President Phil Hanlon said Friday.
  “Because the three faculty members work in the same department and have collaborated on some research involving human subjects,
  
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• Then Again: Few remember Vermonter at the Alamo

  12-11-2017 21:36 via vtdigger.org
  The name of Vermonter Mills Andross is among those commemorated on a monument that stands beside the Alamo in San Antonio. Wiki Commons photo(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.)
  Mills Andross could be forgiven if at some point he wondered what he was doing in Texas, so far from his childhood home in Vermont. If that moment came, it might have been on Feb. 23, 1836, when a Mexican cavalry unit rode into view. The horsemen were the vanguard of a much la
  
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• Vermont’s small businesses face an Amazon problem

  12-11-2017 21:07 via vtdigger.org
  A checkout counter sign at Manchester’s Northshire Bookstore encourages shoppers to buy local. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerStacy Mitchell has seen all the headlines: Take “Vermont Last State in America to Get a Walmart.” Or “The Only State Capital Without a McDonald’s.” Or “Towns Have an Image, and They Say Dollar Stores Aren’t Part of It.”
  “Vermont,” she says, “has more small businesses per capita and the least bi
  
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• Brattleboro’s Seasonal Overflow Shelter opens Monday, November 13th

  12-11-2017 18:08 via vtdigger.org
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  Brattleboro’s Seasonal Overflow Shelter opens Monday, November 13th
   
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  BRATTLEBORO, VT – Brattleboro’s Seasonal Overflow Shelter will open Monday, November 13th.  The program, which for the past 10 years has run from the First Baptist Church on Main Street, will operate this season from the up
  
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• Carbon tax gains traction at energy conference

  12-11-2017 11:37 via vtdigger.org
  From left, Gov. Phil Scott and Energy Action Network Executive Director Jared Duval listen to Burlington Electric Department General Manager Neale Lunderville with Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger standing by at the Vermont Energy and Climate Summit held Wednesday at Champlain College in Burlington. Photo by Mike Polhamus/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — A tax on carbon dioxide pollution could bring Vermont the cheapest electric rates in New England, according to a plan presented at an energy conferen
  
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• John Killacky: VTDigger is ‘ever more necessary’

  12-11-2017 10:55 via vtdigger.org
  Here at VTDigger, we strive to produce the best news in Vermont. Over the next few weeks, we will bring you the voices of our supporters — the VTDigger champions who help make our news possible. John Killacky, the executive director of the Flynn Center in Burlington, has been an active commentator on VTDigger and a donor since 2011. As one of Vermont’s pre-eminent arts leaders, we are proud that John is a VTDigger Champion!In-depth analysis on pertinent issues and myriad voices
  
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• EPA: Time to reduce phosphorus in Lake Memphremagog

  12-11-2017 10:31 via vtdigger.org
  Lake Carmi has been closed for three months this year because of toxic algae blooms caused by pollution from local dairy farms.New pollution limits are aimed at keeping Lake Memphremagog from meeting the same fate. Photo by Mike Polhamus/VTDiggerThe federal government has placed Lake Memphremagog under an order to reduce phosphorus pollution.
  The largest source of phosphorous, 46 percent of the total, comes from crops, hay, pasture and production on Vermont farms.Excess phosphorus fuels toxic cy
  
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