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• We made it, thank you!

  30-12-2017 19:19 via vtdigger.org
  VTDigger is ending our annual fund campaign a day early, thanks to the nearly 2,000 contributors who helped us meet our budget goal of $350,000. We are truly grateful for your gifts, which are so necessary to keeping our newsroom humming.
  We are delighted to end our annual fund campaign early. This couldn’t have happened without your generosity. Gifts at every level helped us to reach this goal.
  We also appreciate the matching gifts pledged to us from generous large donors. The untold stor
  
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• UVM hospital group moves offshore insurer to Vermont

  30-12-2017 13:07 via vtdigger.org
  Dr. John Brumsted, the CEO of the University of Vermont Medical Center, speaks about the all-payer model at a news conference Wednesday. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerIn a sudden about-face, UVM Health Network board has decided to move its captive insurance company, which has been based in Bermuda since the 1980s, to Vermont this coming year.The UVM hospital group, which includes six hospitals in Vermont and New York, plans to establish the for profit Bermuda-based company in Vermont as a nonp
  
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• Long-awaited Deerfield Wind turbines go online

  30-12-2017 11:06 via vtdigger.org
  The 15 Deerfield Wind turbines in Readsboro and Searsburg are now operational, the developers announced Friday. Permitting and construction for the project took more than a decade. Photo by Dave Lachance/Bennington BannerREADSBORO — The 15-turbine Deerfield Wind project has begun generating power, capping a permitting and construction process that spanned more than a decade.
  Avangrid Renewables “began commercial operation at its newest wind farm, and first in Vermont, the Deerfield W
  
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• Bill Huff: A carbon tax hurts Vermonters

  30-12-2017 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bill Huff, of Thetford Center, who is a retired certified financial planner and airline captain.
  Everyday Vermonters realize that a tax on gas and heating oil will leave us all with less money in our pockets. The carbon tax is meant to be punitive. It’s supposed to force consumers to swap to electric vehicles. Most people that are inclined to buy an electric vehicle probably already have them. Any change in the ratio of electric vehicles to gas-po
  
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• Bob Stannard: 2017 Year in Review

  30-12-2017 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.
  By the time you read this 2017 will be about done and good riddance. What an awful year it’s been. It began with the inauguration of arguably the worst president in our nation’s history and it’s ending with key figures in his administration either being indicted or pleading guilty. There were, however, some happy moments — s
  
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• Ron Holland: Inside the ‘fee-for-service’ health care system

  30-12-2017 00:55 via vtdigger.org
   
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robert Ronald Holland, who is a physician and policy analyst who lives in Irasburg. He has no political party affiliation.
  A dominant critique of the health care system is that its poor outcomes and high costs stem from a misalignment of economic incentives. The belief is that fee-for-service buys increments of care, therefore physicians sell more services than are necessary to increase their income. In the commentary by Carrie Wulfman, “On
  
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