We’ll talk about life in towns on the Vermont-Quebec border and the issues that concern people whose work and social lives straddle two different countries and cultures.
Vermont is now the seventh state in the nation to declare
itself “sweatshop-free.”
Governor
Jim Douglas signed a bill in Brattleboro yesterday that governs state purchases of clothes and
other products.
A new ranger has been appointed to oversee the southern half
of the Green Mountain National Forest; Bernie Sanders has joined a group of fellow
freshmen senators to lead the opposition to a free trade agreement with
Colombia; more and more of the mountain snow pack is melting and that’s filling
Lake Champlain.
Last year, the Legislature passed a law that limited the
amount of information marketers could get on the drugs that doctors prescribe.
But a lawsuit was filed over whether the action was also a
limitation on free speech.
On Tuesday, the House debated whether to
repeal the law altogether or to delay it.