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• Norwich loses another key town employee due to discontent

  28-11-2022 13:54 via vtdigger.org
  
  Editor’s Note: This story by Patrick Adrian was first published by the Valley News on Nov. 23.Norwich — still without an acting town manager — will now be without a zoning administrator as well, as Planning and Zoning Coordinator Aaron DeNamur has tendered his resignation.In a letter to the Selectboard earlier this month, DeNamur attributed his departure to the mistreatment of town employees by “a very abusive and outspoken group of residents” who have made the town
  
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• Chief Justice Reiber: People get a say in how courts are doing in diversity, equity and inclusion

  28-11-2022 13:10 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Paul L. Reiber, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.The Vermont Constitution entrusts the Vermont judiciary with the responsibility to protect the rights of all Vermonters and visitors to our great state through access to the courts and equal justice under law. Specifically, the Constitution requires that “(e)very person within this state ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws,” and that justice must be “impartially admi
  
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• Dr. Diane Roston: I need to do better. And I am doing the best I can. 

  28-11-2022 13:07 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Diane Roston, M.D., medical director of West Central Behavioral Health in Lebanon, New Hampshire.A friend contacted me about her adult daughter who had lost her job, was drinking alcoholically and was considering suicide. I carefully considered the services my friend’s daughter should receive to help her recover. As physicians, we are trained to serve those in need and, at the very least, to do no harm. My friend and her daughter had reached out to several privat
  
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• Elayne Clift: Maternal mortality, abortion and race — a dangerous trifecta

  28-11-2022 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Elayne Clift, who writes about women, health, and social issues from her home in Brattelboro.Much has been written in the literature of public health about America’s shocking maternal mortality rate. Occasionally, media reports on the alarming rate when there is a hook. Advocates concerned with women and health illuminate the problem in reports and at conferences. But in light of the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision on abortion, new urgency arose in address
  
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• Fallon Clark: The Global Warming Solutions Act misses the point

  28-11-2022 13:01 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Fallon Clark of Colchester, an independent editor and ghostwriter serving fiction and memoir authors.The Global Warming Solutions Act is a costly piece of legislation that cannot solve the problem of pollution and will worsen Vermont’s struggling economy. Repealing the act is an effort all Vermonters must get behind. But so is stopping pollution.Pollution is a problem. As one who believes in the nonaggression principle, pollution represents a serious act of aggre
  
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• Under pressure: Years of drinking water problems force Montpelier to confront an aging system

  28-11-2022 12:05 via vtdigger.org
  
  Contractors remove pavement in a preparation for a water main replacement on School Street in Montpelier on Friday, Nov. 18. Residents have grown frustrated by hundreds of water main breaks in the state’s capital that have culminated in frozen streets, closed businesses and water shut-offs. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerMONTPELIER — One after another, drinking water pipes are bursting in Vermont’s capital city. The breaks — caused largely by unusually high water pre
  
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• Beating the rain, a record-setting Killington World Cup reigns

  28-11-2022 00:44 via vtdigger.org
  
  A record-breaking Killington resort crowd of 21,000 spectators watch the Saturday opening of the 2022 World Cup ski-racing circuit’s lone U.S. stop for women. Photo by Dustin Satloff/U.S. Ski Team via Killington ResortKILLINGTON — Vermont-schooled Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin nabbed an NBC microphone over the weekend to give a shout-out to a record-setting World Cup ski-racing crowd.“You can hear a roar, you can feel this rumbling,” she said amid 21,000 spectato
  
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