Midday Report: September 20, 2006

The Governor and his chief challenger get personal over policy, in a VPR debate; the parade of widely known political figures continues in Vermont, as the national political parties zero in on the Vermont House and Senate races; a political analyst assesses the emerging strategies among candidates for the top offices on the Vermont ballot. In an example of bi-partisan cooperation in Washington, four senators from Vermont and New Hampshire have worked together to push through the Senate unanimously, a bill that adds thousands of acres of wilderness areas in the two Northern New England states.