Former Governor Howard Dean and Governor Jim Douglas have very different opinions about the importance of including a public
plan option in any health care reform bill that emerges from Congress.
Former Governor Howard Dean
says budget cuts pushed by the Douglas administration would cripple a program that Dean says
protects Vermont’s way of life.
As we approach the end of the year, we’re taking a few moments to look back at what made news. The series is called Sounds of 2008. This morning, we hear from former Governor Howard Dean.
Former Gov. Howard Dean says he supports the direction that President-elect Barack Obama is taking in assembling an administration; Senator Bernie Sanders says he will push for a substantial economic stimulus package when Congress returns to session in about 10 days;
VPR’s Mitch Wertlieb speaks with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean about President-Elect Barack Obama, the fifty-state strategy, the country’s future and his own.
Howard Dean helps to close the Democratic National
Convention in Denver; Vermont State Police to work with
three other states this weekend to go after drunk drivers;
Students head back to Vermont’s colleges and universities; A New York
State Trooper was shot in the hand during a struggle last night in the Adirondacks.
Calls to 2-1-1 help line increase as Vermonters worry about paying for
food, fuel and transportation costs; Not all of the delegates agree on
Dean’s handling of DNC.
Howard Dean will gavel the Democratic National Convention to order later this afternoon; Vermont Democrats will have to choose between two candidates for lt. gov. during the primary on Sept. 9th; efforts are under way to restore Lake Champlain’s population of muskies.
When former Gov. Howard Dean became chairman of the
Democratic National Committee in 2005, he put a controversial plan in place
that allocated financial resources to every state Democratic committee in the
country;