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• Phil Scott issues executive order that would allow age-based health insurance premiums

  08-07-2026 23:43 via vtdigger.org
  
  Gov. Phil Scott speaks during a press conference at the Statehouse in Montpelier in April 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerGov. Phil Scott issued an executive order Wednesday that included a number of measures to decrease health insurance regulations in an effort to lower costs, including implementing age-based insurance premiums. “None of these ideas are radical,” Scott said in a Wednesday press conference. “In fact, they’re very mainstream, and we know th
  
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• Vermont gets $1.3 million to settle allegations Cash App did not shield users from fraud

  08-07-2026 23:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  Attorney General Charity Clark speaks during a press conference at the Statehouse in Montpelier in June 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerMONTPELIER — Vermont will receive $1.3 million as part of a multistate settlement with Cash App over allegations that the popular currency transfer platform failed to protect its users from fraud and misled them about the platform’s safety.Charity Clark, Vermont attorney general, announced the settlement with Cash App’s parent compan
  
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• Report: Norwich woman died of asphyxia

  08-07-2026 22:12 via vtdigger.org
  
  Noel Neely, the 82-year-old woman whose death at her residence at 48 Douglas Hill Road in Norwich, Vt., on May 9 remains under investigation. Photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley NewsThis story was first published in the Valley News on July 6, 2026.NORWICH — A woman who was found dead in Norwich in May died due to “asphyxia by exclusion of oxygen” as a result of “nitrogen gas delivered to face mask and plastic bag over head,” according to the Vermont Chief Medical Examin
  
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• Vermont doesn’t have a housing shortage. It has a hoarding problem.

  08-07-2026 22:05 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,I’m responding to Mickey Nowak’s recent letter to VTDigger, which in turn was a response to a commentary by John Bossange.There was a time when housing was both affordable and aesthetically appealing. People gathered to build a structure in town, whether it be a town hall, church, covered bridge or house or barn for their neighbor, and despite primitive carpentry skills and lack of fancy tools, built some of Vermont’s most iconic structures that still stand proudly
  
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• Vermont Judge Dickson Corbett remembered for kindness and dedication to the law

  08-07-2026 21:54 via vtdigger.org
  
  Judge H. Dickson Corbett in the Windsor Superior Court in White River Junction in May 2026. File photo by Alex Driehaus/Valley NewsThis story by Alex Hanson was first published in the Valley News on July 7, 2026.THETFORD — Vermont Superior Court Judge Dickson Corbett died unexpectedly last week.Former colleagues said Corbett was found unresponsive Thursday morning and was taken to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where he was pronounced deceased. Colleagues and friends said he died of
  
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• Tristram Gray Chase Jensvold

  08-07-2026 21:20 via vtdigger.org
  
  Born: 08/03/1978Burlington, VermontDied: 04/16/2026Nashville, TennesseeDetails of service:Donations in Tristram’s name may be made to Turning Point of Chittenden County, Spectrum Youth and Family Services, or The Humane Society.Tristram (aka T, Tris, TJ) Gray Chase Jensvold was born in Burlington on August 3, 1978. Shortly after birth, he and his parents moved to Danville, where T spent his first years living on the Danville Morgan Horse farm, later moving to a log cabin overlooking Joe&r
  
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• Vermont Conversation: ‘How the Democrats Screwed Bernie.’ Former Sanders chief campaign strategist Tad Devine on the 2016 presidential race

  08-07-2026 19:13 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get podcasts.Author and Democratic strategist Tad Devine. Photo by Ellen DevineIn 2016, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was an insurgent candidate taking on Hillary Clinton, the heavily favored pick of the Democratic establishment for the presidential primary. As Sa
  
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• New Chittenden County recycling facility to remain on track after waste district recovers $2.27 million stolen in scam

  08-07-2026 00:46 via vtdigger.org
  
  The existing recycling facility will be replaced by a new one that is expected to take on more processing capacity. Courtesy photoA long-awaited Chittenden County recycling facility will see a chunk of its funding returned after it was stolen in a cyber fraud scheme early this year, federal authorities said Tuesday.The reimbursement will allow the Chittenden Solid Waste District to stay on track in funding the upgraded plant, said Sarah Reeves, the waste district’s executive director.&nbs
  
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