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• Sports betting case cited in effort to void death penalty

  26-05-2018 20:07 via vtdigger.org
  Donald Fell is facing a July retrial. File photo
  BURLINGTON — Attorneys for accused killer Donald Fell are again asking a judge to declare the death penalty unconstitutional, this time citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding sports gambling.
  Fell’s lawyers, in their filing seeking to overturn the federal death penalty statute, point to the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which restricts the federal government’s power over states.Get all of VTDigger's crimin
  
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• Support accountability journalism in Vermont

  26-05-2018 16:42 via vtdigger.org
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• Medical equipment provider won’t drop Vermont Medicaid

  26-05-2018 04:03 via vtdigger.org
  Mike Fisher, the state’s health care advocate, said he had received many complaints from concerned citizens. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
  A key medical equipment company has decided to continue serving Vermont Medicaid customers, reversing a decision that would have left thousands searching for a new supplier.
  The Department of Vermont Health Access announced Friday that Keene Medical Products “will remain a full member of the Vermont Medicaid provider network” as the
  
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• Havilland Smith: Self-delusion in America’s North Korea policy

  26-05-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Haviland Smith, of Williston, who is a retired CIA station chief who served in East and West Europe as well as the Middle East. His other writings can be seen on rural-ruminations.com.
  It is extremely important that the current American administration fully understand the realities that govern the behavior of the North Korean government. What we are addressing here are North Korean realities, not behaviors ascribed to them by an American administration
  
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• Walt Amses: Doing nothing is the problem

  26-05-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
  With the grim predictability of death, taxes and National Rifle Association excuses, yet another school shooting devastates a community, leaving the nation appalled and again wondering if there is any hope of stanching the bloodshed. The saturation of firearms in America — upwards of 300 million — coupled with pulling the trigger inexorably becoming just another viable problem-solving option, the hor
  
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• Chelsea Catherine Wait: A skeptic visits church, and finds community

  26-05-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Chelsea Catherine Wait, a writer living in Montpelier.The First Congregational Church of Berlin sits near a bend in the road, tucked behind several farms, the airport, and I-89. It’s an unassuming church — a small white building that rests between several residential houses, shaded by trees. I almost pass by it at first. The driveway is gravel, stained dark by a recent rain. Inside, the walls are bare, painted baby blue.
  I visit the church a
  
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