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• Politico: Sanders mulls a 2020 run for president

  27-01-2018 13:36 via vtdigger.org
  The political news website Politico reported Friday that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders met with advisors last weekend to begin planning a 2020 run for president.There is no official word about whether Sanders is running and the senator’s campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, insists he is focusing on “retaking the House and the Senate.” Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Daily
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• Sanders decries staff vacancies at the VA

  27-01-2018 13:21 via vtdigger.org
  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks to the media following his talk during an American Legion conference in Bennington on Friday evening. Photo by Caroline Bonnivier Snyder/New England NewspapersBENNINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders reaffirmed his commitment to adequate funding for veteran’s health care services at an American Legion dinner meeting here Friday.The independent Vermont senator capped a daylong tour of Southern Vermont, with a speech to more than 160 legionnaires from po
  
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• Curtiss Reed: The difference between benign neglect and malicious intent

  27-01-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Curtiss Reed Jr., executive director of the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity https://vermontpartnership.org/ in Brattleboro.
  When controversy surfaced within our family or in the neighborhood, Mama Bea, my great-aunt, was fond of saying, “It is what it is, but it ain’t what it seems!” When I first saw “Everyone Loves A Parade!,” the mural on the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, my first response as a b
  
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• Don Keelan: Regulatory fatigue has arrived

  27-01-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Don Keelan, a retired certified public accountant and resident of Arlington. The piece first appeared in the Bennington Banner.
  Steve Eder’s New York Times article describes how regulatory fatigue has overcome the apple orchard operations at Indian Ladder Farms, in Altamont, New York. And while the story describes an agricultural site in New York, it is quite relevant to Vermont.
  Peter G. Ten Eyck II operates a 300-acre apple orchard south of Alba
  
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• Bob Stannard: America needs a Winston Churchill

  27-01-2018 00:55 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.
  I saw “The Darkest Hour,” starring Gary Oldman, last night. The film is about the month of May 1940 when Winston Churchill was called upon to replace Neville Chamberlain as Britain’s prime minister. It was a most terrible time for England. Hitler was sweeping over Europe with the mightiest military force the world had ever known.
  
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• ‘Hub and spoke’ patients show big drop in drug use, overdoses

  27-01-2018 00:08 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  The first in-depth survey of those enrolled in Vermont’s medication-assisted treatment program for opioid addiction shows “dramatic reductions” in drug use, overdoses, hospital visits and arrests.
  The study, based on interviews with 80 people, also found improved “family life, housing stability and emotional health” among those who are participating in the state’s hub and spoke prog
  
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