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• Then Again: Turn-of-the-century Vermont artist had talent, but not fame

  13-05-2018 20:00 via vtdigger.org
  A collection of books whose covers Rachael Robinson designed are on display at Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. Photo by Mark Bushnell
  The devastation wrought by the Spanish Influenza is hard to imagine. It is just as hard to quantify. Estimates of those killed by the 1918-19 epidemic range anywhere from 20 million to 130 million.
  The tragedy can perhaps best be understood by looking at individual lives cut short by this modern plague. One of those lives belonged to Rachael Robinson. You’ve p
  
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• Burlington hopes school climate survey helps build relationships

  13-05-2018 18:00 via vtdigger.org
  Burlington students have some fun at a school gathering. Burlington School District photo
  BURLINGTON — The Burlington School District is launching a climate survey designed to build stronger relations among students, families, teachers and staff as part of its strategic plan.
  The $11,000 online survey is available on the district website and can be filled out there until May 30.
  District spokesman Russ Elek said employees, parents and students from Grade 3 through high school will be able
  
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• ANALYSIS: Lawmakers leave without a deal on taxes and budget

  13-05-2018 06:13 via vtdigger.org
  Speaker of the House Mitzi Johnson, D-South Hero, speaks with Minority Leader Don Turner, R-Milton, during the Saturday session at the Statehouse. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger
  The 2018 biennium of the Vermont Legislature came to a close with no money deal in hand.Despite bipartisan agreement on new gun restrictions and legalization of small amounts of marijuana earlier in the session, it has ended on a sour note.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our
  
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• Legislature endorses mandatory health insurance

  13-05-2018 05:38 via vtdigger.org
  Ginny Lyons, chair of the conference committee on individual health care mandate.
  After months of deliberations, state lawmakers on Saturday decided that all Vermonters should have to buy health insurance as of Jan. 1, 2020.
  The House and Senate each agreed to a compromise version of H.696, which establishes a state “individual mandate” for health insurance in response to pending changes at the federal level.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never miss our health care cov
  
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• Senate won’t confirm Scott’s labor relations nominee

  13-05-2018 03:10 via vtdigger.org
  An image posted to the VSEA Facebook page.
  The Senate has rejected the controversial nomination of a retired utility executive to the state Labor Relations Board.
  Senators on Saturday refused to confirm Gov. Phil Scott’s nomination of Karen O’Neill, whom the governor had named to serve as a “neutral” member on the six-member labor relations board in February.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Da
  
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• Senate won’t confirm Karen O’Neill, Scott’s labor relations nominee

  13-05-2018 03:10 via vtdigger.org
  An image posted to the VSEA Facebook page.
  The Senate has rejected the controversial nomination of a retired utility executive to the state Labor Relations Board.
  Senators on Saturday refused to confirm Gov. Phil Scott’s nomination of Karen O’Neill, whom the governor had named to serve as a “neutral” member on the six-member labor relations board in February.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Da
  
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• Final tax bill proposes low property tax increases

  13-05-2018 01:23 via vtdigger.org
  House Ways & Means Chair Janet Ancel. File photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger
  Under the finalized tax bill forged by the House and Senate, Vermonters would see some property tax increases, but less that what was proposed under previous versions of the bill.The tax legislation, H.911, which was wrapped up in conference committee Friday evening, would rely on a hike of 2.6 cents on the residential property tax and about 5 cents on the non-residential tax, to pay for K-12 school budgets.Under the
  
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• School safety bill in peril as it heads to House

  13-05-2018 00:07 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Dick Sears. Photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDiggerA slightly revised provision of a bill inspired by a what police say was a foiled school shooting plot in Fair Haven that had been stripped out of a House version of that legislation was added back into the Senate version on Saturday afternoon.
  The bill, H.675, has been traveling back and forth between the two chambers and landed in the Senate on Saturday, following action in the House a day earlier.Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.Y
  
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