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• More than luck? VTDigger investigates big wins on small Vermont lottery games

  29-04-2018 22:31 via vtdigger.org
  Read the story on VTDigger here:More than luck? VTDigger investigates big wins on small Vermont lottery games.
  
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• Pending loss of Medicaid waiver concerns mental health advocates

  29-04-2018 21:30 via vtdigger.org
  Melissa Bailey, commissioner of the Department of Mental Health, is shown testifying before a House committee. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
  WASHINGTON — The nationwide opioid crisis has propelled scrutiny in Congress of a longstanding federal rule that restricts the use of Medicaid at large-scale residential treatment facilities.
  The same law limits Medicaid payments for inpatient mental health treatment at some types of facilities — a regulation Vermont has sidestepped for
  
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• Then Again: Burlington-born John Dewey was education reformer, and more

  29-04-2018 20:00 via vtdigger.org
  John Dewey, seen here in a 1902 photo, was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Wikimedia Commons photo
  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.”
  How does a great mind become great? Part of the answer is of course nature; DNA is surely part of the equation. But what about nurture?RELATED STORIESThen Again: From farm to factory, young Vermont w
  
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• Pownal gives developer OK to explore 3 solar projects

  29-04-2018 20:00 via vtdigger.org
  Landfills are of increasing interest to developers of solar power. Courtesy photo
  POWNAL — Green Lantern Group has received approval to assess three potential area sites for solar generating projects.
  The Select Board has approved a lease option agreement with the Waterbury-based firm, which will now study two former town landfill sites and a former Pownal Tanning Co. waste-dumping area.
  The landfill sites are both near the current transfer station off Maple Grove Road, while the tannery l
  
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• Dover considers ordinance against marijuana dispensaries

  29-04-2018 16:00 via vtdigger.org
  Dover Police Chief Randy Johnson, right, shows the Selectboard ordinances other towns have adopted to ban marijuana dispensaries. Photo by Chris Mays/Brattleboro Reformer
  This story by Chris Mays was published by the Brattleboro Reformer on April 27.
  DOVER — Local officials are grappling with the concept of having venues for purchasing marijuana — medical or not.
  “I’m not a doctor,” Dover Police Chief Randy Johnson told the Reformer. “People say it can help th
  
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• Dorothy Day: ‘Servant of God,’ Vermont ‘Granny’

  29-04-2018 13:34 via vtdigger.org
  Dorothy Day faces armed sheriffs while sitting on a California picket line in 1973. Photo by Bob Fitch/Stanford University LibrariesEighty-five years ago on May 1, 1933, Vermonter Kate Hennessy’s grandmother stood amid 200,000 social justice protesters in Manhattan and sold penny copies of a new publication.
  “This little paper is addressed,” it said, “for those who are huddling in shelters trying to escape the rain. For those who are walking the streets in the all but fut
  
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• House passes resolution opposing NewVistas community

  29-04-2018 12:45 via vtdigger.org
  NewVistas rendering of Joseph Smith’s “Plat of Zion”A resolution opposing the NewVistas vision for a large planned community in the White River Valley passed in the Vermont House of Representatives on Friday.
  Sponsored by several Upper Valley legislators, including Rep. Tim Briglin, D-Thetford, the resolution says Utah engineer David Hall’s plan to build a 5,000-acre intentional community in the hills of Royalton, Sharon, Strafford and Tunbridge would “undermine the
  
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