Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Dartmouth professor Linda Fowler of the Nelson Rockefeller Center for Political Studies assesses the results of yesterday’s events in the Democratic presidential campaign; some observers say that supporters of the candidates who might drop out may be drawn to candidate Wesley Clark; Governor Jim Douglas marks the opening of a new substance abuse recovery center in Barre; an anti-nuclear group that wants to know more about a plan to increase power at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant has signed a secrecy agreement to see documents in the case.
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