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• Prison health contract saves state money, secretary says

  30-09-2018 21:39 via vtdigger.org
  Human Services Secretary Al Gobeille. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
  A top state official says there is “no missing money” in Vermont’s contract with a prison health provider, rebutting concerns raised by the Health Care Advocate Office.
  Human Services Secretary Al Gobeille also said the state’s arrangement with Centurion, despite recent complaints about addiction and hepatitis C treatment behind bars, has been positive both from a financial and a health care persp
  
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• Madeleine Kunin gets personal in revealing new memoir

  30-09-2018 20:52 via vtdigger.org
  Former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin wrote her new book “Coming of Age” at her Wake Robin retirement community apartment in Shelburne. “I was kind of anxious whether it was too personal,” she says, “but I thought other people might be feeling the same things.” Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
  When Madeleine Kunin published her first memoir in 1994, she chose her words carefully. As the book’s title reminded, Vermont’s first and so far only fem
  
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• Chelsea sees return of much-needed pharmacy, gas station

  30-09-2018 20:28 via vtdigger.org
  Pharmacy Tech Jason Arnold fills a prescription at the Medicine Store pharmacy inside the Chelsea Health Center in Chelsea on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Kinney Drugs closed its pharmacy operated in the same space at the end of August 2017, and Medicine Shoppe opened Sept. 13. A supervising pharmacist approves all of Arnold’s work from the company’s Barre location. Photo by James M. Patterson/Valley News
  Editor’s note: This story by Jared Pendak was first published by the Valley N
  
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• Then Again: Trouble at state prisons is nothing new

  30-09-2018 20:00 via vtdigger.org
  Windsor State Prison in an undated photo.
  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.”Edwin Oakes wrote to inform the Vermont Legislature that everything was well at the state prison. It was the standard report that Oakes, the prison’s superintendent, had issued every two years, as required by law, since taking office more than 20 years earlier.RELATED STORIEST
  
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• Vermont’s energy efficiency utilities under inspection in new investigation

  30-09-2018 19:33 via vtdigger.org
  The Public Utility Commission and the Department of Public Service are housed at 112 State St., Montpelier. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerAlmost 20 years after Vermont became the first state in the country to start a separate energy efficiency utility, members of a state board are now reexamining how those utilities operate.But multiple players, including the efficiency utilities themselves, would like to see a broader examination of ratepayer funded energy efficiency programs. The work of the e
  
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• Vermont to receive $600,000 in Uber settlement

  30-09-2018 18:28 via vtdigger.org
  Uber will pay out $600,000to the state of Vermont in a settlement related to a 2016 data breach. ScreenshotThe state will reap $600,000 from a settlement with the rideshare company Uber, the Vermont Attorney General’s Office announced this week.All fifty states and the District of Columbia are sharing a total settlement of $148 million, after the company failed to report a November 2016 data breach until a year later.
  During the breach, hackers gained access to personal information belongi
  
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• UVM student leads campaign for disclosure of sexual offenses

  30-09-2018 17:34 via vtdigger.org
  UVM student Syd Ovitt, who started the Explain the Asterisk campaign. Photo by Katie Rearden/VTDigger
  In February of last year, University of Vermont freshman Syd Ovitt reported a sexual assault to the university’s Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity, which began a non-criminal investigation.
  Five months later, after what she described as a drawn-out and frustrating process, Ovitt was informed that the male student had been found to be not responsible for what had occurred.
  
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• Moats: As higher education shifts to worker training, is there room for the humanities?

  30-09-2018 17:00 via vtdigger.org
  University of Vermont students on the green. Photo courtesy University Communications
  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.
  Ronald Reagan, governor of California, appeared before the crowd, wearing a maroon sport coat and white shoes. Thousands of students f
  
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• Marlboro College confident despite scrutiny from accreditors

  30-09-2018 16:11 via vtdigger.org
  Seventy years after its founding, Marlboro College is trying new strategies to lure students. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDiggerAs enrollments in the region’s colleges dwindle, accreditors are checking in. And Marlboro College – where headcounts are again down this fall – will be getting a visit from the New England Commission on Higher Education this November.
  Still, Marlboro College president Kevin Quigley sounded a confident note this week, and said that NECHE, the federally-recog
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott’s public schedule Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2018

  30-09-2018 15:00 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Gov. Phil ScottSept. 28, 2018
  Contact:Ethan Latour,[email protected]
  Governor Phil Scott’s Public Schedule: 9/29/18 – 10/5/18
  Saturday, September 29
  11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
  Vermont Precision Tools 50th Anniversary Celebration
  10 Precision Lane, Swanton, VT
  Sunday, September 30
  No public events scheduled
  Monday, October 1
  9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
  Vermont Community Leadership Summit
  Casella Theater, Fine Arts Center, Castleton University, Castleton, VT
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