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• Vermont climate panel urges action as carbon emissions rise by 16 percent

  05-08-2018 22:11 via vtdigger.org
  Peter Walke (left), Deputy Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  Vermont has committed to climate change on paper, but words have yet to be translated into meaningful action.The state’s latest greenhouse gas data shows that emissions have gone up each year for the past four years.By law, Vermont is required by 2028 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent of what emissions were in 1990. Emissions have been increased in recent years, however,
  
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• Vermont climate panel urges action as carbon emissions rise

  05-08-2018 22:11 via vtdigger.org
  Peter Walke (left), Deputy Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  Vermont has committed to climate change on paper, but words have yet to be translated into meaningful action.
  The state’s latest greenhouse gas data shows that emissions have gone up each year for the past four years.
  By law, Vermont is required by 2028 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent of what emissions were in 1990. Emissions have increased in recent years, however, wi
  
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• Investors and state square off over EB-5 lawsuit

  05-08-2018 21:43 via vtdigger.org
  Attorney Russell Barr speaks at a news conference Thursday. He has sued former state officials and the Vermont EB-5 Regional Center, alleging fraud. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger
  A group of investors says the federal government’s shut down of the Vermont EB-5 Regional Center rejuvenates their case against the state.The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service determined last month that the center must be closed because state officials made material misrepresentations about the fraud at Ja
  
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• Then Again: A 1930s plan had Vermont paving its peaks

  05-08-2018 20:00 via vtdigger.org
  A green line running vertically through a map of Vermont marks the route of the proposed Green Mountain Parkway. Courtesy of the Vermont Historical Society
  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.”Col. William Wilgus must have envisioned it as the ambitious project that would cap his illustrious career.
  As a civil engineer, Wilgus had helped design the new Grand C
  
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• Moats: The ever-increasing divide between the haves and the have-nots

  05-08-2018 18:01 via vtdigger.org
  This house in Stowe was listed for sale for $12.5 million in 2015. Photo courtesy of Stowerealty.com/LandVest Inc.
  Editor’s note: David Moats, an author and journalist who lives in Salisbury, is a regular columnist for VTDigger. He is editorial page editor emeritus of the Rutland Herald, where he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for a series of editorials on Vermont’s civil union law. This column is an adaptation of a speech he gaveat the Basin Harbor Club in Addison County last month for
  
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• Incumbents largely absent in state’s attorney debate

  05-08-2018 17:25 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont Law School hosted a debate for state’s attorney candidates. Photo from livestream
  County prosecutor candidates from around the state squared off and criticized their opponents in a debate on Thursday where four out of five incumbents didn’t show.
  Issues included various criminal justice reform topics including racial bias, opioid addiction and out-of-state incarceration. The forum, co-hosted by the ACLU of Vermont and the Center for Justice Reform at Vermont Law School, took
  
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• Margolis: These candidates are just not that interesting

  05-08-2018 17:00 via vtdigger.org
  The Democratic gubernatorial candidates took part in a debate Thursday. Channel 17
  Perhaps the most interesting few minutes of Thursday’s forum for the Democratic candidates for governor occurred when the five contenders were asked, “What sets you apart from the rest of the candidates sitting at the table?”
  And they couldn’t say.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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• Fallen soldier’s call to ‘don’t forget me’ echoes 15 years later

  05-08-2018 16:14 via vtdigger.org
  A memorial stone for Vermont soldier Kyle Gilbert stands in downtown Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
  BRATTLEBORO — Vermonter Kyle Gilbert’s parents still remember the last words their only child said on the phone before the 20-year-old soldier was killed in Iraq Aug. 6, 2003: “Just don’t forget me.”
  Fifteen years later, they haven’t. Neither has their community, friends and neighbors have learned after a flag-burning incident this Fourth of
  
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