Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Presidential candidate Howard Dean pursues his long-running critique of President Bush’s management of post-war Iraq; Governor Douglas holds a news conference on the floor of the Vermont Tubbs manufacturing plant in Brandon to discuss what his staff calls the second major job creation package of his administration; former Vermont Education Commissioner Marc Hull has died, at 61; Congressman Bernie Sanders holds a news conference to assess the new Medicare bill that passed in Congress last week; Marlboro College in Brattleboro announces a new president – Ellen McCulloch Lovell.
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