VPR Evening News September 21st, 2007

Congressman Peter Welch says Congressional Democrats should maintain a tough stand against the Iraqi War policies of the Bush Administration; The Vermont National Guard says 250 members of the Air Guard are returning this weekend from the Middle East this weekend; Fletcher Allen Health Care applies for state permission to build an electronic health records system; The state will spend almost a million dollars to help low income people who were inadvertently cut from fuel assistance programs; Governor Douglas accuses Democratic legislative leaders of being out of the mainstream; Vermont’s Medicaid program will get an infusion of $530,000 as part of a national settlement with a prescription drug maker, and commentator Mary Barrosse Schwartz is planning to visit her local farmer’s market for Eat Local Day.

Midday Newscast: Semptember 7, 2007

Vermont Lieutenant Governor Brian Dubie could be appointed administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration; more Vermont National Guard members are heading overseas; Montpelier residents and officials are welcoming a land conservation group’s plan to buy a tract of open land; the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board is in Vermont promoting highway and boating safety.

Guard members headed to Cuba

Fourteen Vermont Air National Guard members are due to leave later this week for six months service at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Interview: Colonel Philip Murdock, Guard deployment

About 200 Vermont Air National Guardsmen left this afternoon for deployment to the Middle East. A contingent of F-16 fighter planes from Vermont and the Indiana Air National Guard will be lending strategic support to Iraqi and American forces serving on the ground in Iraq. Colonel Philip Murdock of the Vermont Air National Guard spoke with Neal Charnoff about where they will be deployed.