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• White supremacist threatens Montpelier flag protest

  30-01-2018 22:49 via vtdigger.org
  A homemade Black Lives Matter flag is shown flying at the University of Vermont in 2016. File photo by  Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger
  A white supremacist has threatened to protest Montpelier High School’s decision to raise the Black Lives Matter flag on Thursday.
  The school has received a wave of backlash since their Jan. 17 decision to fly the Black Lives Matter flag this February. Reactions have ranged from Montpelier citizens expressing their belief that the flag is anti-police to a sp
  
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• Live At Noon: Rep. Welch Reacts To The State Of The Union Address dlvr.it/QDKQWm https://t.co/wR6bF8EgSt

  30-01-2018 21:53 via twitter.com
  
  Live At Noon: Rep. Welch Reacts To The State Of The Union Address dlvr.it/QDKQWm https://t.co/wR6bF8EgSt
  
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• Hartford school track supporters file lawsuit against School Board

  30-01-2018 21:44 via vtdigger.org
  (This story by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling was first published in the Valley News on Jan. 30, 2018.)
  HARTFORD — Supporters of an athletic track at the high school campus have filed a lawsuit in Windsor Superior Court in an effort to force the School Board to put a question related to the track on the Town Meeting ballot.
  The School Board and the nonprofit Friends of Hartford Track disagree over whether the wording of the question is legal — the wording was on a petition signed by more than
  
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• LISTEN: New Hampshire Man Teams Up With Vermont Candymaker To Pay Off School Lunch Debt dlvr.it/QDKFvT https://t.co/2EaVs7CejJ

  30-01-2018 21:18 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: New Hampshire Man Teams Up With Vermont Candymaker To Pay Off School Lunch Debt dlvr.it/QDKFvT https://t.co/2EaVs7CejJ
  
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• DFR: Vermonters should exercise caution with cryptocurrencies

  30-01-2018 20:55 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Department of Financial RegulationMonday, January 29, 2018
  Contact:Nicholas [email protected]
  January 29, 2018 – With cryptocurrencies continuing to attract headlines, the Department of Financial Regulation (“DFR”) reminds Vermont investors to be cautious about investments involving cryptocurrencies.
  “The recent success of cryptocurrencies has drawn considerable interest from the investing public and the media,
  
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• Montreal man admits smuggling guns over border using Vermont library

  30-01-2018 20:38 via vtdigger.org
  A Canadian man has pleaded guilty in Vermont to smuggling more than 100 handguns into Quebec that had been stashed in a library straddling the international border.
  Alexis Vlachos, 40, of Montreal, entered his guilty plea Monday in U.S. District Court in Burlington to federal charges of conspiring to export, and actually exporting, firearms from the United States to Canada, without a license, in violation of the Arms Control Export Act.
  A sentencing date is set for May 7. Vlachos faces a maximum
  
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• UVM student drops Title IX case against university

  30-01-2018 19:56 via vtdigger.org
  University of Vermont students on the green. Photo courtesy University Communications
  BURLINGTON — A University of Vermont student sanctioned by the university for allegedly inappropriately touching another student has dropped a lawsuit that claimed the school violated his due-process rights.
  The student, identified under the pseudonym “John Doe” in court papers, had been disciplined for allegedly groping an unnamed female student while dancing at on off-campus party hosted by
  
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• Trump’s approval rating lowest in Vermont

  30-01-2018 19:32 via vtdigger.org
  Supporters of President Donald Trump watch his 2017 inaugural speech on the National Mall. File photo by Jasper Craven/VTDigger
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s job-approval rating in Vermont is the lowest of any of the 50 states, according a Gallup poll released Tuesday.
  In his first year in office, Trump’s job approval rating in Vermont was 26 percent, according to Gallup — well below the national average of 38 percent.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll ne
  
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• RGA: Scott takes action to strengthen Vermont’s workforce

  30-01-2018 17:38 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Republican Governors AssociationJan. 29, 2018
  Contact:RGA Press [email protected]
  GOP Governor Phil Scott is committed to spurring job growth and economic prosperity in Vermont through common-sense policies. The Associated Press reports that Governor Scott’s administration is taking new action with a broad economic program to train Vermont workers, grow jobs, and reinvigorate the state’s economy while working to attract new workers to the state. As Governor Sco
  
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• New Hampshire Man Teams Up With Vermont Candymaker To Pay Off School Lunch Debt dlvr.it/QDHtVy https://t.co/RYNUj0KJqJ

  30-01-2018 17:36 via twitter.com
  
  New Hampshire Man Teams Up With Vermont Candymaker To Pay Off School Lunch Debt dlvr.it/QDHtVy https://t.co/RYNUj0KJqJ
  
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• Community solar firm Soveren Solar closes up shop

  30-01-2018 17:28 via vtdigger.org
  Peter Thurrell (left), owner of Soveren Solar, talk to Rob Miller, CEO of Vermont State Employees Credit Union, about how solar panels work during a ribbon cutting ceremony in Guilford in 2016. Brattleboro Reformer file photo
  This story by Chris Mays was published in the Brattleboro Reformer on Jan. 30, 2018.
  DUMMERSTON — Peter Thurrell said President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on solar equipment are nails in the coffin — the last contributing factor leading to the closure of h
  
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• Samantha Power: China will fill global power vacuum

  30-01-2018 12:51 via vtdigger.org
  Samantha Power. Screenshot image from “The Final Year.”Samantha Power, the former ambassador to the UN, gave an ominous assessment of the state of global politics under President Donald Trump at a public discussion in Burlington Saturday.She takes a dim view of Trump’s international policy stances. “There is no captain in the democratic world right now,” she said. Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly headlines in y
  
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• Making the grade? Critics say school testing system is flawed

  30-01-2018 12:22 via vtdigger.org
  Read the story on VTDigger here:Making the grade? Critics say school testing system is flawed.
  
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• Burlington City Council adds F-35 question to March ballot

  30-01-2018 11:49 via vtdigger.org
  BURLINGTON — During a passionate and packed council meeting, councilors voted, many out of fear of an imminent lawsuit, to add a question to the March ballot asking voters if they want F-35 warplanes to come to Burlington.Activists with Save our Skies have been working for months to put the issue of whether to add the non-binding question to Burlington’s March ballot. Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Dail
  
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• Northern Pass pick hamstrings Lake Champlain cleanup funding

  30-01-2018 03:39 via vtdigger.org
  Utility lines on a pole. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
  Quebec taxpayers scored a major victory last week when their state-run utility, Hydro-Quebec, won an historic contract to supply enormous quantities of hydroelectric power to Massachusetts.
  The project is called the Northern Pass transmission line, and will transmit up to 1,090 megawatts at a time; the contract with Massachusetts is for 9.45 terawatt-hours, which is enough electricity to power 1 million homes for a year.
  Hydro-Quebec
  
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• Northern Pass pick hamstrings Lake Champlain clean up funding

  30-01-2018 03:39 via vtdigger.org
  Utility lines on a pole. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerQuebec taxpayers scored a major victory last week when their state-run utility, Hydro Quebec, won an historic contract to supply enormous quantities of hydroelectric power to Massachusetts.
  The project is called the Northern Pass transmission line, and will transmit up to 1,090 megawatts at a time; the contract with Massachusetts is for 9.45 terawatt-hours, which is enough electricity to power 1 million homes for a year.
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• Crowded field vies for Rutland aldermen seats

  30-01-2018 03:20 via vtdigger.org
  RUTLAND — Ten candidates are facing off for five seats on the Rutland City Board of Aldermen.
  Three of the five incumbents are seeking reelection to two-year terms on the 11-member panel.Seven challengers are also seeking office. 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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• Welch, Sanders call on Congress to act on community health centers

  30-01-2018 03:13 via vtdigger.org
  Community Health Centers of Burlington
  SOUTH BURLINGTON — Time, and money, are running out for the community health centers that provide basic medical services to Vermonters, Vermont’s congressional delegation is warning.
  A federal program that provides funding for the nation’s community health centers — primary care centers for about 27 million Americans — lapsed last September. The National Association of Community Health Centers says emergency funding is drying u
  
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• Margolis: Governing through the looking glass

  30-01-2018 03:02 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott signs the Vermont state budget for the 2018 fiscal year. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  Editor’s note: Jon Margolis is VTDigger’s political columnist.
  The first month of the 2018 session of the Legislature is shaping up as proof of the General Law of Contradiction, which holds that not only is everything complicated (which is simple) but also everything is contradictory.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly hea
  
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• King of beverage deals: Keurig to buy Dr Pepper Snapple

  30-01-2018 02:51 via vtdigger.org
  The Keurig Green Mountain headquarters in Waterbury. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
  Keurig Green Mountain announced on Monday that it will buy the soft drink company Dr Pepper Snapple.
  The two companies will have a combined $11 billion in annual revenue, according to a release announcing the merger.
  Originally a coffee-roasting company based in Waitsfield, Keurig has grown to international prominence with its single serve coffee makers. The company is now based in Waterbury.Texas-based Dr
  
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• Francisco Corbalán: Improving the nutrition in kids’ restaurant meals

  30-01-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Francisco Corbalán, M.D., who is a pediatrician at Porter Pediatric Primary Care in Middlebury.As a general pediatrician, I spend a lot of time discussing nutrition with my patients and their families. With the rates of obesity and other chronic diseases linked to poor nutrition continuing to cause a significant burden on people’s quality of life and on our health care system as a whole, continued efforts are needed to help combat this ever
  
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• Jody Fried & Erin Narey: Enticing the millennial workforce with the arts

  30-01-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jody Fried, who is the executive director of Catamount Film & Arts, and Erin Narey, who handles press and communications for Catamount. They both live in Kirby.
  In his recent State of the State address, Gov. Phil Scott urged the Legislature to focus on growing Vermont’s working-age population. Vermont certainly has jobs, he noted, citing industries like Arlington’s Mack Molding, St. Johnsbury’s NSA Industries and Chroma Technology
  
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• Rick Davis: Vermont’s workforce and gender equality challenges

  30-01-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Rick Davis, who president/co-founder of the Permanent Fund for Vermont’s Children and the president of Davis Companies.
  Policymakers and Vermonters of all political persuasions are worried about the economic impacts of Vermont’s aging population and shrinking workforce. Our working-age population — the vital group that acts as our economic engine — keeps declining. Meanwhile, baby boomers will soon be aging out of the workforce.
  
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• Beth Stern: The unspoken ‘ism’ — ageism

  30-01-2018 00:50 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Beth Stern, of Marshfield, who is executive director of Central Vermont Council on Aging.
  The recent focus in our nation on issues regarding race and gender roles has brought to the forefront two “isms” – racism and sexism, both major challenges in our society that need to be addressed. Conspicuously missing from this discussion is “ageism.” Aging simply isn’t a topic that most of us discuss, but in fact, aging is one
  
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