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Midday Report: August 9, 2007

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The state is asking young Vermonters who went away to college, to think about coming home to work; it’s now easier for Vermonters getting food assistance, to shop at farmers’ markets; twice this week the Public Service Board has acted in a manner that’s in conflict with Governor Jim Douglas known positions on energy policy; the Montpelier City Council has scrapped a just-completed property value revision. Dozens of angry residents argued at a meeting last night that there was no rhyme or reason for the values assigned to their properties.
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Midday Report: August 8, 2007

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Critics of the Vermont property tax are saying the prebate system may make taxpayers’ incomes public knowledge; for the second year in a row, there’s a severe shortage of blood supplies in northern New England; the Vermont Public Service Board has rejected the Douglas administration’s request to study setting up an all-fuels” efficiency program; Vermont’s first biodiesel mixing terminal is open
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Midday Report: August 7, 2007

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Senator Leahy works to update the Federal Freedom of Information Act; the intriguingly named Captive Insurance industry convenes in Burlington this week; a new federal grant is going to help preserve some paintings and historic flags in a pair of Vermont collections.
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Midday Report: August 6, 2007

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What did the state’s bridge inspectors learn in a weekend of looking for structural problems? And remembering a man who helped turn the Holocaust into a field of scholarly study.
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Midday Report: August 3, 2007

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The state begins inspections on eight highway bridges similar in design to the one that failed this week in Minnesota; the bike ferry between Colchester and South Hero begins its seventh season this weekend; Congress is about to go on vacation for the rest of August, and there’s been something of a flurry of activity before the recess; five avid hunters are willing to pay a lot of money to try to bag a moose this fall.
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Midday Report: August 2, 2007

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Nuclear regulators see no environmental reasons to deny Vermont Yankee a license extension, but they’re looking at safety issues; the state prepares for a massive study of its future energy requirements; construction is beginning again on the Bennington Bypass; the company that had been operating the Gilman paper mill along the Connecticut River in northeastern Vermont, has been ordered out of the building and an adjoining hydroelectric plant; police in Hanover, NH are investigating an alleged break-in and test-cheating scheme at Hanover High School.
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Midday Report: August 1, 2007

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Vermont’s fourteen hospitals are before a state review board today, asking for revenue increases that average 10%; a statehouse cook off kicks off Eat Local challenges around Vermont; a convoy hauling a monster electrical transformer continues creeping down Interstate 89 this afternoon; dozens of elected officials from cities across the country lobbied Congress this week for an end to the war in Iraq. police in Claremont, NH are accusing a former credit union teller of stealing $72 thousand.
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Midday Report: July 30, 2007

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IBM Corporation has announced that it is laying off 90 workers at its Essex Junction plant, in semiconductor manufacturing and support functions such as packing and testing; more…