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• Kavanaugh nomination on pause as FBI investigates accusations

  29-09-2018 01:38 via vtdigger.org
  Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee for hearings on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday. C-SPAN photo
  The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Friday the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, but a vote in the full Senate is on pause after the White House agreed to wait for the results of an FBI investigation before moving forward.Voting along party lines, members of the the Senate Judiciary Committee
  
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• Nuclear panel elects new leaders, but future still unclear

  29-09-2018 01:31 via vtdigger.org
  Chris Campany, executive director of Windham Regional Commission, is the new chair of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDigger
  BRATTLEBORO – For the first time since January 2015, Vermont’s citizens’ panel on nuclear issues has new leadership.
  Chris Campany, Windham Regional Commission executive director, was elected chair of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel at a meeting in Brattleboro Thursday night. T
  
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• For Archer Mayor, the press is the enemy of the perpetrator

  29-09-2018 01:28 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont mystery writer Archer Mayor is touring the state this fall to promote his latest book, “Bury the Lead.” Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro Reformer
  NEWFANE — Since releasing his first book in 1988, Archer Mayor has been deemed “Vermont’s locavore novelist” for infusing what the Chicago Tribune calls “the best police procedurals being written in America” with banner state headlines.
  Take the heroin dealing and deaths in 2003’s
  
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• Julia Purdy: Fact or fiction: plausible, possible, probable?

  29-09-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Julia Purdy, of Rutland Town, a copy editor, freelance writer and retired educator. This is an open letter to the Vermont Legislature.
  Like many millions of people, I tuned in to the confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh that took testimony from both Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh. Fortunately I had something to do at that moment that required little brain power so I could give it my full attention.
  It was like watching the blind leading the bli
  
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• Robby Porter: Applying logic to the Kavanaugh hearing

  29-09-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robby Porter, of East Montpelier, a self-employed woodworker and the owner and partner in small scale hydroelectric projects. He is the author of “Doodlebug, A Road Trip Journal.”
  Fact 1: At the Senate hearings on Thursday both Dr. Christine Blasely Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh presented credible but contradictory stories. Dr. Ford says with 100 percent certainty that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers. He, also
  
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• Walt Amses: Storms of autumn

  29-09-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in North Calais.
  As our floundering ship of state looks ever more likely to slip under relentless waves of growing resistance, the captain wonders why the crew seems intent on tossing a life preserver to everyone else. What about him? Based on past performance we can envision him pushing to the front of the line, ordering the sailors to stand down and focusing the entire rescue operation on getting himself out of harm&rsqu
  
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