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  • And Don't You Scream or Make a Shout

    —Green Mountain Daily

    The city of Barre used Federal stimulus money to buy six new handguns, 21 Taser guns, and five new shotguns, including one nonlethal version that shoots bean bags.  

    The Tasers have been used twice since their purchase was approved in August. Each case involved disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. [...]

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    Posted: March 16, 2010, 2:00pm EDT

  • REVving up for new job

    —vt.Buzz

    I can't help but feel sorry to see my friend and former colleague Sue Allen moving out of journalism, but I wish her well anyway.

    Most recently she worked as a reporter covering Montpelier for the Times-Argus. She takes over as executive director of Renewable Energy Vermont, a nonprofit' [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2010, 11:35am EDT

  • The Slaughter Rule

    —Vermont Tiger

    Ouch-Wrestling
    by John McClaughry
     
    Call this the Democratic Congress’s crowning insult to the American people.

    First they invented a two thousand page health care bill that is fiscally dishonest, dramatically increases the national debt, rations care for seniors, raises taxes, and imposes an unconstitutional mandate to buy government approved [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2010, 11:12am EDT
    by Geoffrey Norman

  • Who Killed VSAC?

    —Vermont Tiger

    Number of comments: 0

    As Congressional Democrats and the White House begin a last-ditch push to pass legislation to overhaul health care this week, it remains far from certain that a plan to revamp the student loan programs will be merged into the health legislation. While the odds of that happening are better than [...]

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    Posted: March 16, 2010, 9:17am EDT
    by Geoffrey Norman

  • School Solution

    —Vermont Tiger

    Number of comments: 1
    Choice School Choice: The Answer Under Our Nose
    by
    Rob Roper

    On Wednesday, March 10, several cats got out of the bag in Montpelier.

    The public hearing at the State House was supposed to gauge public support for consolidating public school districts. It turned out to be a powerful outcry [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2010, 8:58am EDT
    by Geoffrey Norman

  • Making money decisions

    —vt.Buzz

    Three House committees wrap up work on the bills that state government needs to operate after July 1 – the budget bill, the transportation budget bill and the capital project bill.

    House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Martha Heath, D-Westford, seemed confident Monday that her committee would recommend a budget that [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 6:59pm EDT

  • Update on the SOS race

    —vt.Buzz

    What’s SOS? Shorthand for “Secretary of State.” With Deb Markowitz seeking higher office, the job is open. There’s some vigorous, under-the-radar campaigning going on.

    Chris Roy, Republican candidate for secretary of state, reported Monday he had received an endorsement from former Lt. Gov. Barbara Snelling. Roy plans a fundraiser [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 6:50pm EDT

  • Stirring the political pot

    —vt.Buzz

    A couple of controversial bills are scheduled for debate and votes Tuesday morning – one in the House and another in the Senate.

    The House will take up the Senate bill banning texting while driving, which the House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to amend to include a host of [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 6:23pm EDT

  • Health care, anyone?

    —vt.Buzz

    Down in D.C., health-care legislation is on the line. Vermont’s delegation is hoping the Senate bill passes the House this week, an outcome that is in question, with further details to be worked out in a reconciliation bill.

    It could be that by week’s end, Rep. Peter Welch, [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 6:07pm EDT

  • Health care at home

    —vt.Buzz

    While Washington wiggles its way through health care, the debate goes on in Vermont too.

    William Hsiao, a Harvard economist who specializes in health care, will speak to Senate and House health committees at 2 p.m. Thursday in Room 11 of the Statehouse. Hsiao helped design Taiwan’s universal [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 6:05pm EDT

  • Starting Senate run

    —vt.Buzz

    Chittenden State Senate candidate Mike Yantachka, a Democrat from Charlotte, will kick off his campaign with an event at 6 p.m. March 24 at the Outer Space Cafe on Flynn Avenue in Burlington.

    He’s among those who will be competing in the six-seat district. Among those declining his [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2010, 6:02pm EDT

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