VPR Evening News December 10th, 2007

Congressman Peter Welch plans to break with the Democratic leadership on a
budget bill; Vermont lawmakers will need to add 17 million dollars to this
year’s budget to deal with unexpected increases in the cost of state
government; Federal regulators issue a new report on the Vermont State
Hospital; Advocates for the homeless say state government needs to put
more money into an emergency program that ensures children have a place to
stay; A hunter pleads not guilty in the death of a friend he says he
mistook for a coyote; Montpelier was erroneously ranked the fifth-best
public high school; and commentator Philip Baruth with lessons from Kurt
Vonnegut.