Top stories developing at the noon hour:
The managing editor of the Brattleboro Reformer was fired abruptly after a newspaper staff meeting yesterday; at this hour, the Vermont House is debating competing ideas on how to improve health care for uninsured state residents; Governor Jim Douglas has signed a proclamation for Equal Pay Day in Vermont; in New Hampshire, the State Senate is calling on the federal Nuclear Regulatory Agency to conduct an independent safety review of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.