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• Leahy remembers McCain as an unlikely ally

  01-09-2018 01:59 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Patrick Leahy remembers the late Sen. John McCain as a lawmaker who would decide positions regardless of politics. Photo courtesy Office of Senator Leahy
  Sen. Patrick Leahy says that the last time he saw Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican told the Vermont Democrat how much he valued their friendship. The two men had stepped into a side room off the Senate chamber to say goodbye.“We all die sometime,” McCain told Leahy. “I’m happy with my life.”Get all of
  
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• The Deeper Dig: Canusa residents describe life on the line

  01-09-2018 01:53 via vtdigger.org
  Janice Beadle stands along Canusa Avenue, a road that straddles Canada and the U.S. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDigger
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  Derby, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec, have historically been tight knit communities despite the international boundary between them. But heightened border security measures have frustra
  
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• UVM nurses regroup with new negotiator, promise continued contract fight

  01-09-2018 01:41 via vtdigger.org
  Deb Snell, president of AFT Vermont, speaks at a press conference in July. VTDigger file photo
  WILLISTON – A week after the resignation of a key union leader, University of Vermont Medical Center nurses are regrouping and say they will continue their contract battle with the state’s largest hospital.
  Union leaders say they’ve received strong support from within their ranks to keep negotiating for higher wages and more staff.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never mi
  
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• Walt Amses: The unraveling

  01-09-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in North Calais.
  With Sen. John McCain’s passing, Donald J. Trump had an opportunity for grace; a chance to transcend the political quagmire he’s created and make a simple, bipartisan declaration of the nation’s mourning and respect for a man who — agree with him or not — was decidedly everything the president isn’t. White House staffers even simplified it for him, drafting a statement a
  
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• Gregory Dennis: Rise for Climate on Sept. 8

  01-09-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Gregory Dennis of Cornwall. It first appeared in the Addison Independent.
  President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement left many people with the impression that there’s not much America could do about global warming, until we get a new administration.
  But now an international climate conference — and thousands of local events planned ahead of that gathering — are giving new hope to those who see climate
  
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• Top court says ‘revenge porn’ law constitutional; defense calls ruling ‘bizarre’

  01-09-2018 00:49 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments in March 2017 over the constitutionality of the state’s revenge porn law. From left to right: Justices Beth Robinson, John Dooley (now retired), Paul Reiber (chief), Marilyn Skoglund, Harold Eaton.The Vermont Supreme Court says the state’s law against revenge porn is constitutional.
  However, whether a Vermont woman should face a criminal charge for allegedly sharing online a nude image of another woman she found by accessing her boyf
  
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