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• UVM Medical Center nurses’ strike ends but the impasse is unresolved

  14-07-2018 14:12 via vtdigger.org
  UVM Medical Center nurses’ strike. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDigger
  BURLINGTON – University of Vermont Medical Center’s striking nurses will return to work Saturday morning, ending a two-day strike that has cost the hospital about $3 million.
  Sometime soon – possibly next week – the nurses’ union and hospital administrators will restart contract talks.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never miss our health care coverage with our weekly headlines in you
  
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• Vermont’s workforce woes a drag on national business indexes

  14-07-2018 03:45 via vtdigger.org
  John Hanley (left), chief financial officer of G.S. Precision, gives a tour of the Brattleboro company on June 29 to Michael Schirling, state Commerce and Community Development secretary. Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro Reformer
  Some Vermonters cheered on social media this week after CNBC put out a list placing the Green Mountain State at the top of its quality of life ranking. But for those trying to business in the state, the picture isn’t so rosy.
  In a survey looking at the best
  
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• Frances Brock: Sometimes a strike is the only option

  14-07-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Frances Brock, who is the former president of the Burlington Education Association.
  Our community is facing the fact that the University of Vermont Medical Center nurses have walked out on strike. I am too familiar with the situation these nurses find themselves in. I know just how difficult and wrenching such a decision is to make. Walking out on people who need the professional services you provide and disrupting the normal routine of so many families
  
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• Bob Stannard: Solution or the problem?

  14-07-2018 01:00 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. This month marks his 13th anniversary as a regular, bimonthly columnistfor the Bennington Banner.
  You and your toddler daughter are walking through a shopping center parking lot on your way to go buy groceries. Your daughter really likes shopping with you, because she almost always gets a treat; well, if she’s good, that is. But she is a good
  
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• Rick Davis & Aly Richards: Border children treatment not acceptable

  14-07-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Rick Davis, president and co-founder of the Permanent Fund for Vermont’s Children, and its CEO, Aly Richards.
  By separating immigrant children from families at our border and containing children in isolation from their parents with no clear plan for reunion, the federal administration shows a callous disregard for healthy early childhood development. Sacrificing children’s mental and physical wellbeing is not an acceptable practice for this
  
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• Prosecutors: Sports betting ruling shouldn’t prohibit death penalty for Fell

  14-07-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Prosecutors are calling on a judge to reject arguments by accused killer Donald Fell that cite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding sports gambling as a reason to declare the death penalty unconstitutional.
  Assistant U.S. Attorney William Darrow, who is prosecuting Fell in the capital case in the November 2000 slaying of 53-year-old Teresca King of North Clarendon, says in a filing that a ruling by the nation’s highest court shouldn’t affect the death penalty case pending in
  
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• Sanders plugs Zuckerman in campaign email

  14-07-2018 00:34 via vtdigger.org
  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, left, with Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, right.Sen. Bernie Sanders urged voters to donate to Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman’s re-election campaign in an email this week.
  “David is in a tough race. Can you make a $27 donation?” the subject line read in the email.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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• E. coli levels briefly close beach on Lake Raponda

  14-07-2018 00:23 via vtdigger.org
  A sign at Lake Raponda in Wilmington informs residents at the local beach about the E. coli that was found in the water. Further testing was needed before the beach could be reopened. Photo by Kristopher Radder
  This article by Chris Mays was published in the Brattleboro Reformer on July 12.WILMINGTON — A public beach on Lake Raponda was temporarily closed for the second time this year.“Historically, we generally haven’t really gotten out of the single digits with E. coli at the
  
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• Brattleboro Police aim to curb drug abuse by offering treatment

  14-07-2018 00:05 via vtdigger.org
  The Brattleboro Police Department teamed up with Project CARE and Turning Point to host a community cookout on Flat Street, in Brattleboro, on Friday, July 13, 2018. Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro Reformer
  BRATTLEBORO — A year ago, after a dozen local Fourth of July opiate overdoses sparked headlines throughout New England, town Police Chief Michael Fitzgerald knew something had to change.
  Many residents, frustrated with news of drug dealing and related panhandling and burglaries, have call
  
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