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• Gov. Phil Scott’s public schedule for the week of June 2

  02-06-2018 12:36 via vtdigger.org
  Governor Phil Scott’s Public Schedule: 6/2/18 – 6/8/18
  Saturday, June 2
  2:00 – 4:00 PM
  Community College of Vermont Commencement
  Shapiro Field House, Norwich University, Northfield, VT
  Sunday, June 3
  No public events scheduled at this time
  Monday, June 4
  9:45 AM – 12:15 PM
  St. Johnsbury Academy Commencement
  1000 Main Street, St. Johnsbury, VT
  Tuesday, June 5
  1:45 – 2:45 PM
  Biotechnology Innovation Organization International Convention (registration required)
  Boston
  
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• Act 46 plan recommends 18 school district mergers

  02-06-2018 05:16 via vtdigger.org
  On a desktop browser, hover over any area of the map below to see a close-up of the regions in question:The education secretary released a long-awaited — and for many anxiety-inducing — report Friday recommending which school districts should merge.
  Acting Education Secretary Heather Bouchey recommended 18 consolidations, under a mandate written into the school district consolidation law, Act 46. In some cases, the secretary recommends that groups of districts come together, and in o
  
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• UVM Medical Center, nurses don’t reach deal

  02-06-2018 03:40 via vtdigger.org
  UVM Medical Center. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  BURLINGTON – On the last scheduled day of negotiations, representatives of University of Vermont Medical Center and its 1,800-member nurses’ union said they still had not reached agreement on a new contract.
  Barbs exchanged on Friday as the nurses twice rallied behind their cause. But both sides indicated a willingness to keep talking before the current deal expires on July 9.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never
  
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• Lawmakers approve bill to avert shutdown

  02-06-2018 03:20 via vtdigger.org
  House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, center, and Senate leader Tim Ashe, left. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  Under a cloud of opposition from Republicans, including Gov. Phil Scott, the House gave preliminary approval Friday to a spending package aimed at averting a government shutdown in the event that a budget standoff draws out until July.Lawmakers proposed the plan this week, hoping to advance the budget lawmakers agreed to with broad bipartisan support before adjourning last month. The prop
  
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• Prosecutors clear police in fatal I-89 shooting (VIDEO)

  02-06-2018 02:34 via vtdigger.org
  BURLINGTON – Two police officers who fatally shot a man who was pointing a gun at his own head, shortly after he had been pulled over on Interstate 89 in Richmond, will not face charges, prosecutors said on Friday.Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.You'll never miss our courts and criminal justice coverage with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Daily
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• Prosecutors clear police in fatal I-89 shooting

  02-06-2018 02:34 via vtdigger.org
  Richmond police officer Richard Greenough was one of two police officers who shot and killed a man on I-89.
  Trooper Christopher Brown, Middlesex Barracks. Hired Jan. 16, 2012. Vermont State Police photo
  BURLINGTON – Two police officers who fatally shot a man who was pointing a gun at his own head, shortly after he had been pulled over on Interstate 89 in Richmond, will not face charges, prosecutors said on Friday.
  Benjamin Gregware, 42, of Sheldon, who was described as suicidal by police a
  
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• Vermont caught in crosswinds of US-Canada trade tensions

  02-06-2018 01:13 via vtdigger.org
  In happier times, Gov. Phil Scott, left, and Quebec Premier Phillipe Couillard met last year about trade and other issues. File photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger
  After the United States and Canada exchanged jabs in an escalating trade conflict, Chris Carrigan of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce was on the phone with aerospace industry players on both sides of the northern border.
  “It creates uncertainty, and businesses like certainty,” Carrigan said of the heightening tensions.
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• Liz Filskov: Haste makes waste, Governor

  02-06-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Liz Filskov, of East Wallingford, who is a public school teacher in Rutland City. She chairs the Town of Wallingford Democratic Committee and serves as an alternate state delegate on the Rutland County Democratic Committee.
  Dear Gov. Scott,
  All Vermonters are interested in managing educational costs within our collective ability to pay for them, and in a way that is fiscally responsible. This is not a partisan issue. This is everyone’s issue, and
  
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• Brenda Siegel: Governor’s education plan uses shaky math

  02-06-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Brenda Siegel, who is a Democratic candidate for governor, founder and director of the Southern Vermont Dance Festival, vice chair of the Democratic Committee and delegate to the Windham County Democratic Committee. She is an anti-poverty activist and single mom from Newfane.
  Vermont’s governor should take seriously the will of the voters and the tradition of Town Meeting Day. Phil Scott is selling Vermont a story about taxes that does not add up
  
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• Bob Stannard: Look to Ireland

  02-06-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bob Stannard, an author, musician and former lobbyist. This piece first appeared in the Bennington Banner.
  “What we have seen today really is a culmination of a quiet revolution that’s been taking place in Ireland for the past 10 or 20 years.”— Ireland Prime Minister Leo Varadkar
  As our current president is working overtime to drive America back into the Stone Age under the pretense of “Making America Great Again,” Ir
  
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