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• UVM union criticizes ‘obsession with image’, and larger classes, fewer faculty

  04-02-2018 23:26 via vtdigger.org
  Members of UVM’s faculty union, United Academics, which is in contract negotiations with administration. File photo by Kelsey Neubauer/VTDigger
  BURLINGTON — University of Vermont’s faculty union is concerned about cuts in the number of non-tenured lecturers ahead, the cancellation of classes this semester and stalled contract negotiations.At an event last week, the union said a national trend in higher education that puts an emphasis on marketing and high end infrastructure at
  
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• UVM union criticizes cuts in classes and positions

  04-02-2018 23:26 via vtdigger.org
  Members of UVM’s faculty union, United Academics, which is in contract negotiations with administration. File photo by Kelsey Neubauer/VTDigger
  BURLINGTON — With cuts in the number of non-tenured lecturers ahead, and the cancellation of classes behind, and contract negotiations underway, the University of Vermont’s faculty union hosted an event last week to discuss the national trends in higher education that they say have come to UVM.
  The union’s Open the Books forum, wh
  
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• State proposes to cut health benefit

  04-02-2018 22:23 via vtdigger.org
  House Appropriations Chair Rep. Kitty Toll, D-Danville. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger
  Even as legislators move quickly to protect federal subsidies for Vermonters’ health plans, a newly proposed state cut may mean higher costs for some of the same people lawmakers have been hoping to help.
  The Department of Vermont Health Access wants to eliminate the state’s cost-sharing reduction benefit, which lowers deductibles and maximum out-of-pocket expenses for income-qualified residents w
  
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• State proposes health benefit cut

  04-02-2018 22:23 via vtdigger.org
  House Appropriations Chair Rep. Kitty Toll, D-Danville. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger
  Even as legislators move quickly to protect federal subsidies for Vermonters’ health plans, a newly proposed state cut may mean higher costs for some of the same people lawmakers have been hoping to help.
  The Department of Vermont Health Access wants to eliminate the state’s cost-sharing reduction benefit, which lowers deductibles and maximum out-of-pocket expenses for income-qualified residents w
  
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• Struggling Vermont students could be better served for less, studies say

  04-02-2018 21:58 via vtdigger.org
  Early intervention will help kids and cut costs, studies say. File photo by Cate Chant/VTDigger
  Vermont students needing special education could be better served for less money, according to two studies state legislators will be using in upcoming efforts to craft new approaches to providing special education and to funding it.
  The studies, both commissioned by last year’s legislature, were done by the University of Vermont and by the District Management Group, a Massachusetts-based consult
  
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• Special education students could be better served for less, studies say

  04-02-2018 21:58 via vtdigger.org
  Early intervention will help kids and cut costs, studies say. File photo by Cate Chant/VTDigger
  Vermont students needing special education could be better served for less money, according to two studies commissioned by the Legislature.
  Lawmakers will use the studies to craft new approaches to delivering and funding special education services.
  The studies were conducted by the University of Vermont and by the District Management Group, a Massachusetts-based consultancy specializing in improving p
  
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• Margolis: In what looks like a ‘blah’ session, some big changes could be afoot

  04-02-2018 21:53 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott is greeted as he enters the House chambers on Tuesday to give his budget address. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerAt first glance, this looks like rather a blah session of the Legislature.
  Yes, there was a good deal of ballyhoo over final approval of legal marijuana, what with Vermont being the first state to do it by legislature instead of by referendum and all that yackety-yack.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly headlines in y
  
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• Montpelier shooting death: ‘It’s really hard to grapple with’

  04-02-2018 21:15 via vtdigger.org
  Scene from the standoff and fatal shooting of Nathan Giffin at Montpelier High School. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  In the late morning on a cold Tuesday, January 16, Nathan Giffin was shot and killed in a hail of police gunfire on the snowy grounds of Montpelier High School, where he had fled after robbing the Vermont State Employees Credit Union. He was 32.
  Giffin was shot following a standoff lasting 50 minutes — with the high school on lockdown and law enforcement officers swa
  
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• N.H. rejection of Quebec power link could put Vermont back in running

  04-02-2018 20:56 via vtdigger.org
  Route of the proposed New England Clean Power Link hydroelectric transmission line from Canada. Image courtesy TDI New EnglandNew Hampshire environmentalists say they’re pleased with state regulators’ decision Thursday to deny a permit to a controversial power line that Massachusetts selected last week to supply the state with renewable energy.
  Granite State authorities denied a critical site permit to the project, on the grounds that the project’s backers hadn’t proven i
  
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• Then Again: The deadly 1877 crash of the Montreal Express

  04-02-2018 20:30 via vtdigger.org
  The disaster that struck the Montreal Express in Hartford made national headlines. Photo courtesy of Dartmouth College Library, Rauner Special Collections
  Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.”For want of a bed, Henry Tewksbury almost perished in the deadliest train wreck in Vermont history.
  Tewksbury, a well-known lecturer, spent the evening of Feb. 5, 1887, d
  
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• Southwestern Vermont Health Care named one of Vermont’s best places to work for the 4th year in a row

  04-02-2018 15:00 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Southwestern Vermont Health CareFebruary 1, 2018
  Bennington – Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) has been named one of the 2018’s Best Places to Work for the 4th year in a row. SVHC received the honor for the first time in 2015. It remains the only hospital to be recognized by the awards program.
  “SVMC is tremendously fortunate to have talented and dedicated teams all working together for the purpose of exceptional care for patients,” said T
  
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