Here are the top stories at the noon hour:
Is Vermont on a collision course between an aging work-force and rising taxes? a report card on the well-being of the state’s endangered species; what do you do when all those red and green lights give you the blues? Vermont’s endangered species committee meets in Waterbury, getting an update on the well-being of the spiny soft-shelled turtle, and the other 194 plants and animals on the State’s endangered species list;