Newscast: Monday, April 1, 2013, 7:34 a.m.

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Vermont is poised to become the first state in the country to tell people without health insurance how much they can pay for coverage through the federal Affordable Care Act when it begins offering benefits next year. Hundreds of people who rallied in protest of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant over the weekend, and they say it’s time for the 41-year-old reactor to shut down. As the popularity of crowd-funding grows, Vermont versions of Kickstarter are cropping up in an effort to attract support for a variety of causes. Congressman Peter Welch is planning to announce legislation he says will make it easier to pay for renewable energy projects in Vermont and around the country.

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