Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.
Senator Bernie Sanders wants to boost federal home heating assistance this winter by $1 billion dollars; Senator Patrick Leahy says a decision by several Republican senators to filibuster the 2007 Farm Bill will hurt a number of key programs in Vermont; A Georgia man in prison for a 2005 hunting death wants to be released while he appeals his case to the Vermont Supreme Court; and smokers will continue to be able to light up on Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace.