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11 hrs ago | WWUP-TV Cadillac

Vt. health chief: Tritium may in Connecticut River

The state's top health official says it's reasonable to assume a radioactive substance leaking from the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is getting into the Connecticut River.

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Related Topix: Vermont Government

15 hrs ago | North Adams Transcript

Outlook bleak for Vt. fetal-homicide bills

Two bills addressing fetal homicide won't be considered by the Vermont Senate this year because neither has strong consensus backing, according to Bennington County Sen.

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Related Topix: Vermont Government, Bennington County, VT, Bennington, VT

Mon Feb 08, 2010

Netscape

A. Van Jordan | Vermont College of Fine Arts

Vermont College of Fine Arts >> A. Van Jordan is the author of Rise , which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award and was selected for the Book of the Month Club from the Academy of American Poets.

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Sun Feb 07, 2010

Boston.com

Burned twice, Vermont general store to rise again

There's a painting on the chain link fence that surrounds the burned rubble of the Putney General Store.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Patrick Leahy, US Senate, Democrat, Fire, Windham County, VT

Rutland Herald

Straight answers

The Douglas administration has been forced to take a tough line on false statements coming from the owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and on the problems arising from the underground pipes now leaking radioactive tritium into the groundwater in Vernon.

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Related Topix: Vermont Government, Opinion

Sat Feb 06, 2010

Burlington Free Press

Vermont candidate calls for campaign reform

A Democratic gubernatorial candidate called Wednesday for campaign finance reforms that would affect the November election.

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Related Topix: Vermont Government, US Supreme Court, US News

Fri Feb 05, 2010

KSHB-TV Kansas City

President Obama Appoints Mo. Gov. to Special Panel

President Obama has appointed Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon to serve on the Council of Governors, which deals with matters related to the National Guard and homeland defense.

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Related Topix: Missouri, Vermont Government

BurlingtonFreePress.com

Vermont volunteers return from Haiti

Vermont nurse Mindy Pariser walked off a plane at Burlington International Airport on Wednesday night and rushed to embrace her waiting 2-year-old daughter and husband.

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Related Topix: Vermont Government, Haiti, World News, Central America, Travel, Haiti Travel, Airport, Drama Movies, Thriller, Williston, VT

Thu Feb 04, 2010

Burlington Free Press

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Research at the University of Vermont received a substantial boost in the current federal budget, with $3.4 million for eight projects that include magnetic resonance imaging and advanced computing.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Democrat, US Politics, Patrick Leahy, Vermont Government, University of Vermont, Agriculture, Science

Wed Feb 03, 2010

WCAX-TV Burlington

Vt. gov. to meet with Obama, others on energy

Gov. Jim Douglas is participating in a White House discussion of energy issues. Douglas will meet with President Obama, other governors, and administration officials on Wednesday afternoon in Washington.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Jim Douglas

WPTZ

Vermont Man Accused Of Robbing Bank With Glove 20min

Rutland Police said the case of a man who demanded extra money from tellers at a bank he frequented was not your typical bank robbery.

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Rutland Herald

Vt. lawmakers weighing apologizing for eugenics

If the state had carried out a plan to sterilize his grandmother, Don Stevens said Tuesday, he "wouldn't be here." Many Vermonters of mixed French Canadian and Native American heritage, like Stevens' grandmother, as well as poor, rural whites, were placed on a state-sanctioned list of "mental defectives" and degenerates in the 1930s and placed in ...

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Related Topix: University of Vermont, Northfield, VT

Rutland Herald

Sanders in Miami with lobbyists

A dozen Democratic U.S. senators - and Vermont independent Bernard Sanders - spent the weekend at a Miami Beach fundraiser with lobbyists for oil companies and other corporate interest groups who are often the target of the left's criticism, according to Politico, a Washington news Web site.

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Related Topix: US News

Tue Feb 02, 2010

WTEN

Vermont plan would target middle incomes for schools

Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas wants middle income property owners to pay more to support the state's public schools.

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Related Topix: Vermont Government

Brattleboro Reformer

New England Coalition seeks to close VY

The New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, which is opposed to the relicensing of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to shut the plant down until the source of a leak of tritiated water can be found.

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, Vermont Government

WCAX-TV Burlington

Vt. lawmakers consider apology for "eugenics movement"

Some Vermont lawmakers say its time to apologize for a part of the state's history.

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Related Topix: Vermont Government, University of Vermont

WSYR

Temporary Lake Champlain ferry service begins

Traffic is again crossing a narrow stretch of southern Lake Champlain, thanks to a temporary ferry service that began operation Monday next to the site of a now-demolished bridge.

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Related Topix: New York, Vermont Government

Mon Feb 01, 2010

BurlingtonFreePress.com

Comment and Debate: Fixing the education system in Vermont

State Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca is taking up where his predecessor, Richard Cate, left off.

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Sun Jan 31, 2010

WNNE

At Least 15 Towns To Vote On Vermont Yankee 15min

Voters in at least 15 Vermont towns will be asked whether they support calling on the Legislature to block the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant from operating past 2012.

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy

Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus

Vermonter describes Haiti quake devastation

When the earth began shaking, Roger Peterson knew what was happening but still couldn't believe what he was seeing.

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Related Topix: Haiti, Travel, World News, Haiti Travel, Central America, Earthquake, Natural Disasters

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