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• LISTEN: Food's Changing Role In Tourism And What It Means For The State dlvr.it/QMZnhx https://t.co/xn0UXAcppt

  27-03-2018 22:28 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: Food's Changing Role In Tourism And What It Means For The State dlvr.it/QMZnhx https://t.co/xn0UXAcppt
  
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• Today, we spoke with James Lyall about U.S. Border Patrol searching passengers on Greyhound buses throughout Vermon… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-03-2018 18:49 via twitter.com
  Today, we spoke with James Lyall about U.S. Border Patrol searching passengers on Greyhound buses throughout Vermon… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Food's Changing Role In Tourism And What It Means For The State dlvr.it/QMXbJ8 https://t.co/j41c6zTX2M

  27-03-2018 15:45 via twitter.com
  
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• Burlington City Council approves resolution calling for F-35 cancellation

  27-03-2018 06:13 via vtdigger.org
  The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter/Creative Commons photo
  The Burlington City Council voted 9-3 Monday in support of a resolution requesting the cancellation of a planned F-35 fighter jet basing at the Burlington airport in favor of an aircraft that is quieter and has a proven safety record.The city council vote follows a ballot measure passed by Burlingtonians on Town Meeting Day telling the City Council to request the cancellation of the F-35 basing plans. Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'l
  
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• Moose numbers in decline due to overhunting, by ticks

  27-03-2018 03:39 via vtdigger.org
  A moose in the Vermont woods. Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife photoThe encounter with the moose cow and calf, appearing out of nowhere, on a back road, late on a winter’s night, could have ended badly. But the consequences were minor — a skid, resulting from the over-application of brakes on a snowy road, followed by a brief standoff.
  The staring contest, moose versus headlights, concluded. The moose, victorious, continued across the road. High-stepping in the deep snow with
  
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• Tainted water shipments continue at VY

  27-03-2018 02:28 via vtdigger.org
  Dry casks hold spent nuclear fuel at shutdown Vermont Yankee in Vernon. Photo courtesy of Vermont Yankee
  BRATTLEBORO — While Vermont Yankee’s accelerated cleanup plan appears to be gaining momentum, the question of what to do with the plant’s radioactive spent fuel remains unanswered.
  Two companies already involved in proposals for the Vernon plant’s decommissioning now say they also might have a solution to the problem of storing spent fuel.Waste Control Specialists and
  
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• Companies propose possible VY storage plan

  27-03-2018 02:28 via vtdigger.org
  Dry casks hold spent nuclear fuel at shutdown Vermont Yankee in Vernon. Photo courtesy of Vermont Yankee
  BRATTLEBORO — While Vermont Yankee’s accelerated cleanup plan appears to be gaining momentum, the question of what to do with the plant’s radioactive spent fuel remains unanswered.
  Two companies already involved in proposals for the Vernon plant’s decommissioning now say they also might have a solution to the problem of storing spent fuel.Waste Control Specialists and
  
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• Companies propose possible plan for storage of Vermont Yankee’s spent fuel

  27-03-2018 02:28 via vtdigger.org
  Dry casks hold spent nuclear fuel at shutdown Vermont Yankee in Vernon. Photo courtesy of Vermont Yankee
  BRATTLEBORO — While Vermont Yankee’s accelerated cleanup plan appears to be gaining momentum, the question of what to do with the plant’s radioactive spent fuel remains unanswered.
  Two companies already involved in proposals for the Vernon plant’s decommissioning now say they also might have a solution to the problem of storing spent fuel.Waste Control Specialists and
  
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• Young Republican leader enters race for Chittenden Senate seat

  27-03-2018 01:23 via vtdigger.org
  Alex Farrell, Burlington Republican, will run against six incumbent Democratic senators from Chittenden County. Screenshot courtesy of Alex R. Farrell for state senate.
  Chittenden County does not appear to be fertile ground for rising stars of the Republican Party. The county’s six senators are Democrats, and and only six of its forty state representatives are Republicans.
  But Alex Farrell is giving it a shot. Last monthm, the 25-year-old was selected as president of the Burlington Republi
  
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• John Liccardi: Ashamed of the NRA

  27-03-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by John S. Liccardi, who is a retired attorney living in Rutland Town.
  As a lifelong outdoorsman I have cherished the right of gun ownership and the freedom to hunt and fish throughout North America, but never more proudly than in Vermont where the tradition of lawful hunting is safeguarded by our state’s Constitution. In turn, I have tried to give back by mentoring young sportsmen, serving as the chair of the state Fish and Wildlife Board and as pas
  
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• Howard Fairman: More views on financial technology bill needed

  27-03-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Howard Fairman, of Putney, a native Vermonter who likes to note what was unnoted, ask what was unasked, say what was unsaid, then share food for thought with fellow grassroots Vermonters.
  Fellow Vermonters, and members of the Vermont General Assembly whom we have elected to represent us, this commentary is based upon testimony that I asked to present to the Vermont Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs regarding S.269 (Jo
  
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• Rob Roper: Illegal voter ruling raises questions

  27-03-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robert Roper, the president of the Ethan Allen Institute. He lives in Stowe.
  The vote fraud case in Victory concluded with 11 “voters” being removed from the town checklist. For this small Vermont community it meant a full 13 percent of registered voters were illegitimate, and these illegitimate votes were more than enough to alter the outcomes of elections.
  What’s truly alarming about this case is that the root problem had more to do
  
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• Amendment looks to exempt manufacturers from magazine limit

  27-03-2018 00:53 via vtdigger.org
  Rep. Corey Parent, R-St. Albans, speaks on the House floor. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
  Lawmakers have drafted an amendment that would exempt Century International Arms, a firearm company that employees more than 100 people in northern Vermont, from legislation that the company says would “significantly impact” business.
  The House on Friday gave preliminary approval to S.55, a bill that includes several gun restrictions, from expanding background to private sales to increasing t
  
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• Peter Burmeister: A call for a conventional milk boycott

  27-03-2018 00:50 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Peter Burmeister, who with Katherine Fanelli owns and operates Burelli Farm, a certified organic regenerative livestock farm, in Berlin. They are also the owner/operators of a Vermont state inspected certified organic poultry processing plant. Burmeister has been an agricultural activist and was the general manager of the Vermont Milk Company in the mid-2000s.
  Much has been written and discussed in VTDigger, on VPR and in other publications and media ou
  
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• Aging infrastructure blamed for sewage spills into public waters

  27-03-2018 00:24 via vtdigger.org
  Sewage spilled from aging pipes eventually ends up in Lake Champlain. File photo by Roger Crowley/for VTDigger
  More than one million gallons of raw sewage burst from the town of Brandon’s sewage pipes earlier this month and flowed into the Neshobe River, a Lake Champlain tributary, in an accident officials are attributing to aging infrastructure.Over the span of two weeks, untreated effluent flowed from two separate holes in a 12-inch-diameter sewage pipe that runs parallel to the river.Th
  
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