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• Peacock, a farmer inspired by Bernie Sanders, is running against him

  29-07-2018 23:20 via vtdigger.org
  Shaftsbury farmer Brad Peacock announces his candidacy for the U.S. Senate at the Shaftsbury community center in January. Photo by Cherise Madigan/Manchester Journal
  As Brad Peacock watched Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential run, he was struck by the Vermont Independent’s call for young people to “stand up and make a difference.”
  “So I took his words to heart and decided that that is what I was going to do,” Peacock said in an interview in June.Get all of
  
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• State outlines plan for new funds to boost addiction programs

  29-07-2018 22:41 via vtdigger.org
  Secretary of Human Services Al Gobeille at a press conference in October 2017. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  At first glance, home visits from nurses don’t have much in common with addiction treatment in prisons.
  But both are part of a wide-ranging plan to spend as much as $9.6 million to boost Vermont’s substance use disorder initiatives over the next few years.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never miss our health care coverage with our weekly headlines in your inbo
  
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• Legal clinic director leaving as part of VLS faculty cuts

  29-07-2018 22:27 via vtdigger.org
  Jim May, former director of the South Royalton Legal Clinic. Photo by Katy Savage/VTDigger
  The South Royalton Legal Clinic, which as part of the Vermont Law School has provided free legal services to thousands of Vermonters over nearly 40 years, no longer has a director.James May lost his position as director July 1. He was one of 14 VLS faculty members stripped of tenure as part of an effort to reduce the school’s debt.
  Professors who lost their tenure were offered different options for e
  
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• From dairy barns to newsrooms, Vermont businesses brace for tariff crunch

  29-07-2018 21:56 via vtdigger.org
  Workers milk cows in the milking parlor of a Vermont dairy farm. Photo by Terry J. AllenST. ALBANS — From dairy farms to newsrooms, Vermont businesses are bracing for a crunch from trade tensions between the United States and other countries caught up in a tariff tit-for-tat.
  State officials say they do not yet have clear measures of how the escalation of tariffs between the United States and key trading partners are impacting the state’s economy. But industries are preparing for the
  
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• Then Again: Speeding cross-country … at 20 mph (tops)

  29-07-2018 20:00 via vtdigger.org
  In 1903, Horatio Nelson Jackson, left, and his mechanic and sometimes chauffeur Sewell Crocker became the first to drive an automobile across the United States. With them is Bud, a dog they adopted along the way. Photo courtesy of UVM Special Collections/Bailey-Howe Library
  Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.”It is some of the hardest work I’ve done sit
  
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• State unveils Lake Carmi crisis plan

  29-07-2018 19:00 via vtdigger.org
  An outbreak of blue-green bacteria closed Lake Carmilast summer.
  The state has unveiled its crisis response plan for the troubled waters of Lake Carmi in Franklin County, as required by S.260, the “clean water funding” bill approved in the 2018 legislative session.
  The agencies of Natural Resources and Agriculture, Food and Markets, presented a draft of the Lake Carmi crisis response plan at a public hearing in Franklin last Thursday.
  Declaring the lake in “crisis” &mdash
  
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• Burlington solicits views on Memorial Auditorium’s future

  29-07-2018 19:00 via vtdigger.org
  Burlington’s 242 Main, a user-generated youth space in the Memorial Auditorium building. Photo by Kelsey Neubauer/VTDigger
  The city of Burlington is asking residents and business owners to participate in an online citywide survey on the future of Memorial Auditorium, the city Community and Economic Development Office announced Monday.
  Memorial Auditorium, built in 1927 as a 2,600-person auditorium and civic center to honor World War I veterans, hosted some of the most famous bands of the 2
  
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• AG: No charges against former Hartford officer in excess force charge

  29-07-2018 16:00 via vtdigger.org
  This story by Jordan Cuddemi was published by the Valley News on July 26.
  Now Assistant Attorney General Bram Kranichfeld in 2016 when he was Chittenden County deputy state’s attorney. File photo by Morgan True/VTDigger
  HARTFORD — The Vermont Attorney General’s Office has declined to prosecute a former Hartford police officer whose colleagues reported possible mistreatment of a suspect in a holding cell in September.Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.You'll never miss
  
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• West Nile virus found in five more towns in Vermont

  29-07-2018 15:00 via vtdigger.org
  West Nile virus-carrying mosquitoes have been found in six Vermont towns this summer. Photo by Arthur Chapman via Flikr
  This staff report was published by the Valley News on July 26.
  HARTFORD — Three towns in the Upper Valley are among the six Vermont towns where state officials have found mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus, which can infect people and cause flu-like symptoms and more serious illness in rarer cases.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never miss our health care c
  
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