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• Margolis: Vermonters working hard but struggling to survive

  29-05-2018 23:58 via vtdigger.org
  A United Way study shows that 43 percent of all U.S. households are too poor to afford the basic essentials: food, housing, health care, transportation and child care. United Way photo
  Four out of every 10 Vermont households don’t earn enough money “to afford the necessities of housing, child care, food, transportation, health care, and a smartphone.”
  A smartphone?
  More about that presently. At any rate, removing the smartphone from the equation doesn’t change much. Some
  
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• Vermont Rocks: How The Granite, Marble And Slate Industries Shaped The State dlvr.it/QVWVSs https://t.co/TaP7H3HCfb

  29-05-2018 22:12 via twitter.com
  
  Vermont Rocks: How The Granite, Marble And Slate Industries Shaped The State dlvr.it/QVWVSs https://t.co/TaP7H3HCfb
  
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• LISTEN: Here's How Vermont's Plan To Import Prescription Drugs Will Work dlvr.it/QVW36T https://t.co/AZbvdOrFWP

  29-05-2018 20:34 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: Here's How Vermont's Plan To Import Prescription Drugs Will Work dlvr.it/QVW36T https://t.co/AZbvdOrFWP
  
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• Ehlers: Trump values not welcome in Vermont

  29-05-2018 19:24 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — James Ehlers for VermontMay 25, 2018
  Contact:Communications Director Sarah [email protected]
  Remarks in Response to Border Patrol Searches on Amtrak, Greyhound in Vermont
  Winooski, VT — Following disturbing reports of Border Patrol searches on Amtrak Trains and Greyhound buses in White River Junction and Burlington, Democratic Candidate for Governor James Ehlers denounced the Trump values that have given rise to actions that promote exclusion and fe
  
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• Yvonne Daley on how the counterculture changed Vermont

  29-05-2018 19:20 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Phoenix BooksMay 25, 2018
  Contact:Kristen EatonPhoenix Books802.872.7111 (p)[email protected]
  Burlington, Vermont – May 25, 2018: On Thursday, June 14th at 7pm, Yvonne Daley will present her new book, Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont at Main Street Landing. Co-sponsored by Phoenix Books, this event will feature a reading and a short panel discussion with Melinda Moulton (CEO of Main Stree
  
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• Holcombe won’t run for governor

  29-05-2018 19:02 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe. Photo by Charles Hatcher/Valley News
  Former Secretary of Education Rebecca Holcombe is not planning a run for the governor’s office. After several weeks of speculation, she dashed some Democrats’ hopes with a definitive statement on the matter.
  Rumors of a possible run were bolstered by members of the Democratic Party, her appearance at a rally held by the Vermont National Education Association, the teachers union, and a telephone poll th
  
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• Middlebury College Class of 2018 celebrates commencement

  29-05-2018 18:25 via vtdigger.org
  Press Release — Middlebury CollegeMay 27, 2018
  Contact:Sarah RayDirector of Media RelationsMiddlebury CollegeO: 802-443-5794M: 802-989-3403
  MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Middlebury College Class of 2018 gave a standing ovation to author Isabel Wilkerson for her stirring Commencement address on May 27, 2018, in which she called on the graduates to express radical empathy in their lives.
  The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist said basic empathy does not go far enough in the “dangerously f
  
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• Annual Cancer Events Join with Centennial Community Day at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center

  29-05-2018 17:48 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Southwestern Vermont Medical CenterMay 28, 2018
  Contact:svhealthcare.org
  Public is Welcome 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday, June 10 on Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Campus
  BENNINGTON, VT—May 28, 2018—In honor of Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s Centennial year, the Cancer Center Community Crusaders Day of Celebration and National Cancer Survivors Day will be held together and in conjunction with Centennial Community Day 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday,
  
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• UVM Medical Center among ‘greenest’ hospitals in the nation

  29-05-2018 17:42 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — UVM Medical CenterMay 28, 2018
  Contact:Michael Carrese(802) 324-8166
  Recognized for recycling, commuting program and local partnerships
  BURLINGTON, VT – The University of Vermont Medical Center is one of only twenty-five hospitals in the country being recognized for “Environmental Excellence” by Practice Greenhealth, a leading national advocate for sustainable practices in health care. UVM Medical Center and other winners were lauded for addressing the link
  
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• Meeting House on the Green launches its fifth concert series

  29-05-2018 17:38 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Meeting House on the GreenMay 28, 2018
  Contact:Tyrone Shaw(802) 827 6626
  EAST FAIRFIELD— The Meeting House on the Green, 53 School Street in East Fairfield, launched its fifth “Summer Evenings with Vermont Treasures” concert season on May 25 with The Will Patton Quartet, featuring Will Patton, Thal Aylward, Clyde Stats and Steve Blair, who’ve been playing their spirited stew of world music around the Northeast for over 15 years.
  All shows in this seri
  
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• Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos announces early Vermont newspapers of record now available online

  29-05-2018 17:26 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Secretary of State Jim CondosMay 29, 2018
  Contact:Eric Covey, 802-828-2148
  Middlesex, VT – Secretary of State Jim Condos and State Archivist Tanya Marshall announced today that early Vermont newspapers have been added to Newspapers.com and can be researched online for free by residents.
  “Newspapers, especially newspapers of record, are instrumental to ensuring Vermonters are informed and knowledgeable about historic government actions” said Secretar
  
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• Vermont Building and Construction Trades Council endorses James Ehlers for governor

  29-05-2018 17:16 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — James Ehlers for VermontMay 29, 2018
  Contact:Sarah Anders, Communications [email protected]
  Winooski, VT — Today, the Vermont Building and Construction Trades Council endorsed James Ehlers for Vermont Governor on the strength of his advocacy for working people. The endorsement comes at an early point in the campaign due to their confidence in the strength of the candidate and his deep progressive values.
  James Ehlers said, “In this moment, m
  
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• Bennington public defender’s office moves to Main Street location

  29-05-2018 15:13 via vtdigger.org
  The Public Defender’s Office in Bennington has secured new quarters downtown after mold issues forced a move from former longtime home. Photo by Jim Therrien
  BENNINGTON — The local Office of the Public Defender has secured new space in the downtown following a search that was hastened along last summer by mold issues at the former location.
  Vermont Defender General Matthew Valerio said the office at 310 Main St. is “a much more modern and appreciably better space,” compar
  
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• Paul Manganiello: The false paradigm of race

  29-05-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Paul D. Manganiello, MD MPH, of Norwich, a emeritus professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He is president of the GunSense Vermont Education Fund.
  What does it mean to be white, or better, what is being “white”? I’m not talking about a color, but about race. I was born in 1948, the post World War II era and grew up in a white Western European neighborhood in Jersey City, New Jersey
  
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• Bob Zeliff: 90,000 Vermonters lack a livable wage

  29-05-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bob Zeliff, of Bridport, an apple grower who is a retired engineer and the past chair of the Addison County Democrats.
  Who is Gov. Phil Scott helping with his minimum wage veto?
  It is clear that 30 years of “trickle down” public policies have worked to make high end wages higher and low end wage much lower due to inflation.
  The minimum wage today pays for less than it did 30 years ago. Approximately 87,000 Vermonter suffer this wage stagnati
  
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• Don Keelan: Bernie Sanders, speaker for hire?

  29-05-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Don Keelan, a retired certified public accountant and resident of Arlington. The piece first appeared in the Bennington Banner.
  We have now heard that Sen. Bernie Sanders will run again for a third term as Vermont’s U.S. senator. It is still unclear if he will be a presidential candidate in 2020. If I were his financial adviser I would urge him to not do either – unfortunately, I am retired.In the past four years, throughout America, Bernie
  
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