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• Analog's Place In The Digital World dlvr.it/QZF95Q https://t.co/b4RVem4fks

  02-07-2018 20:28 via twitter.com
  
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• Green Mountain Care Board July meetings

  02-07-2018 18:55 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Green Mountain Care BoardJune 26, 2018
  Contact:(802) 505-3055
  GREEN MOUNTAIN CARE BOARD MEETINGS IN JULY
  Unless otherwise noted, all Green Mountain Care Board meetings are held in the Pavilion
  Auditorium at 109 State Street, Montpelier, VT
  Wednesday, July 4th: No Public Board MeetingWednesday, July 11th: Public Board Meeting (1:00 pm)2019 ACO Budget Guidance – Potential Vote
  UVM Milestone Report: Investments Towards Increasing Mental Health CapacityWednesday, July 18th
  
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• Vermont Law School to host panel on visual arts and environmental stewardship

  02-07-2018 18:31 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Law SchoolJune 26, 2018
  CONTACT:Ben Jerveyoffice: 802-831-1228cell: [email protected]
  Panel at Vermont Law School will discuss how visual arts and popular media can help promote environmental stewardship and wildlife conservation
  SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt., June 26, 2018—How can arts and pop culture help advance the causes of environmental advocacy? A panel of artists, conservationists, and policymakers will discuss the importance of visual arts and p
  
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• Sterling College to offer food craft classes

  02-07-2018 18:11 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Sterling CollegeJune 26, 2018
  MEDIA CONTACT:Katie Lavin802.586.7711 [email protected]
  August Food Craft Classes at Sterling College
  Craftsbury Common, VT — June 26, 2018 — Food craft classes in fermentation and breadmaking will be offered this summer in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom through the School of the New American Farmstead, Sterling College’s continuing education program.
  Vermont fermentation enthusiast Nancy VanWinkle, founder of N
  
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• Fourth of July safety tips for pets

  02-07-2018 17:44 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Veterinary Medical AssociationJune 26, 2018
  Contact:Kathy [email protected]
  Fourth of July safety
  Now that summer is here, the Fourth of July is right around the corner! While this is generally a favorite holiday for people, it can be very stressful and dangerous for pets. Firework shows, barbeques, and heat of day can all pose issues for our companion animals.
  Everyone loves the fun and festivities of the July Fourth celebrations. However, our pets
  
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• Campaign 2018: Sen. John Rodgers' Write-In Bid For Governor dlvr.it/QZD7hY https://t.co/CVzG4cSJsj

  02-07-2018 17:12 via twitter.com
  
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• Director of Vermont's Forensic Lab On Big Questions Around Marijuana Edibles dlvr.it/QZD1q6 https://t.co/IOinDPDEPZ

  02-07-2018 16:54 via twitter.com
  
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• Association health plans touted by Trump under state scrutiny

  02-07-2018 14:43 via vtdigger.org
  Mike Pieciak, commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerThe federal government is touting new regulations designed to make health insurance more accessible and affordable, but Vermont officials are concerned they’ll have the opposite effect.
  So even as President Donald Trump’s administration rolls out an expansion of “association health plans,” the state has begun drafting new rules to ensure that such plans are solvent and of
  
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• 88-year old Tunbridge woman struck by stray bullet

  02-07-2018 11:18 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This staff report from the Valley News was published on July 1.TUNBRIDGE — An 88 year-old Tunbridge woman was struck by a stray bullet on Saturday night outside her Spring Road home, according to Vermont State Police.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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• At Johnson farm, 1,600 mark legalization of marijuana in Vermont

  02-07-2018 10:44 via vtdigger.org
  Heather Hubb, who moved to Vermont for the medical marijuana program, with two hemp plants. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger
  JOHNSON — Marijuana officially became legal in Vermont on Sunday, and events across the state marked the landmark law.The largest event was a festival, nicknamed “Weedstock” by one volunteer, held by Heady Vermont in Johnson. About 1,600 people — old Vermonters, middle aged professionals and young Burlington hipsters — gathered at a farm to
  
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• Our Revolution leader fuels the Bern and rebuffs critique

  02-07-2018 01:35 via vtdigger.org
  Nina Turner, president of the progressive grass-roots group Our Revolution, speaks at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Bennington as part of a Vermont tour with stops in Bristol, Burlington and Rutland. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
  BENNINGTON — Nina Turner leads the progressive grass-roots group Our Revolution. But recent headlines made a crowd anticipating her arrival at a local church wonder if she was more a saint or a sinner.
  Turner, head of the political action organiza
  
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• From the Editor: Capital Gazette shooting is a sobering reminder

  02-07-2018 01:25 via vtdigger.org
  The Capital Gazette. Screenshot of June 29, 2018 edition.
  To our Readers:We here at VTDigger stand in solidarity with the five Capital Gazette newspaper staffers who were killed on Thursday by a disgruntled reader. It was the largest killing of journalists in U.S. history. Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Daily
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• Geoff Robertson: Vermont is an entrepreneur’s dream

  02-07-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Geoff Robertson, who is the business assistance director at the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund. Accel-VT is a program of the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund.When people think of Vermont, an entrepreneurial incubator site is not usually the first thing that comes to mind. Yet that is exactly what our state has the potential to be. Earlier this year, Accel-VT, a business accelerator for climate economy startups, worked with eight companies to help them conti
  
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• Rob Roper: $10,000 bribe undercuts Vermont brand

  02-07-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robert Roper, the president of the Ethan Allen Institute. Before moving to Vermont in 1998 he was senior copywriter for Young & Rubicam Advertising in New York. He lives in Stowe.
  If I held up a cookie and said, I’ll give you five bucks to eat this, what would your initial reaction be? More than likely, either “what’s wrong with it,” or “what’s the catch?” If it were a perfectly good cookie, why would I have
  
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• Greg Guma: Paranoid politics — the angry road from Reagan to Trump

  02-07-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  For many years Robert Welch warned his readers about the conspiracy that was plotting to merge the United States and Soviet Russia. His big idea was that repeated exposure could ultimately stop the “socialist nightmare with its perpetual shortages of everything and with its regimentation of individual human lives like that of barnyard animals.”
  As editor of The John Birch Society Bulletin, Welch was a resilient, if also repetitious advocate for racism and sexism decades before D
  
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