Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
At this hour, Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle is giving what his gubernatorial campaign staff calls a major economic policy speech; this morning Governor Jim Douglas called on the Legislature to create another step in the process of releasing convicted sex offenders from prison; a Brattleboro committee formed to study a police review commission is being criticized; Vermont Senators Jim Jeffords and Patrick Leahy propose a mercury pollution program.
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