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The Two-Way : NPR - NPR
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The Two-Way : NPR
NPR
ProPublica and NPR reported on Monday that Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage-insurance company, placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.

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Selectboard votes to pay $123190 for bridge debris removal - Brattleboro Reformer
Posted on Jan 23, 2012 (12 days ago)

Selectboard votes to pay $123190 for bridge debris removal
Brattleboro Reformer
By DOMENIC POLI / Reformer Staff ROCKINGHAM -- The Rockingham Selectboard last Tuesday approved a motion to award a sum of money to a Vermont business to handle the debris from the Bartonsville Covered Bridge, which was destroyed by Tropical Storm ...


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Digger Tidbits: Occupy the Super PAC? Shumlin pulls plug on PR hires; home ... - vtdigger.org
Posted on Jan 17, 2012 (18 days ago)

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Digger Tidbits: Occupy the Super PAC? Shumlin pulls plug on PR hires; home ...
vtdigger.org
Just when you thought you'd heard of Occupy Everything, along comes a Vermont lobbying group that wants to pitch a tent in the spic-and-span corporate park of the Super PAC, where unlimited cash appears to grow on trees. The logic?

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Ladies First expands eligibility for Vermont women - vtdigger.org
Posted on Jan 18, 2012 (17 days ago)

Ladies First expands eligibility for Vermont women
vtdigger.org
by Press Release | January 18, 2012 BURLINGTON – Ladies First, a Vermont Department of Health program that provides access to breast, cervical and heart health screening for low income women, is expanding its eligibility beginning this year.


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Governors Seeking Jobs Offer Tax Breaks as Budget Woes Ease - BusinessWeek
Posted on Jan 31, 2012 (4 days ago)

Governors Seeking Jobs Offer Tax Breaks as Budget Woes Ease
BusinessWeek
25 urged lawmakers to cut unemployment insurance tax rates for the state's 85000 employers, “and allow them to create more jobs and hire more people.” Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, 57, a Republican, offered an investor tax credit to provide working ...

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U.S. Governors Vying to Boost Jobs Offer Tax Breaks as Budget Burdens Ease - Bloomberg
Posted on Jan 31, 2012 (4 days ago)

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U.S. Governors Vying to Boost Jobs Offer Tax Breaks as Budget Burdens Ease
Bloomberg
25 urged lawmakers to cut unemployment insurance tax rates for the state's 85000 employers, “and allow them to create more jobs and hire more people.” Virginia (STOVA1) Governor Bob McDonnell, 57, a Republican, offered an investor tax credit to provide ...

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Vermont state worker charged with DUI after leaving work - BurlingtonFreePress.com
Posted on Jan 27, 2012 (8 days ago)

Vermont state worker charged with DUI after leaving work
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Voyer claimed four hours of work and four hours of sick leave Monday, according to her state payroll timesheet obtained Thursday by the Burlington Free Press through a Vermont public-records request. She declined an interview request when reached at ...

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Nickelodeon President to Speak at UVM's May Commencement Ceremony - UVM News
Posted on Jan 27, 2012 (8 days ago)

UVM News
Nickelodeon President to Speak at UVM's May Commencement Ceremony
UVM News
A Vermont resident for more than four decades, De Cormier is the co-founder and director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Chorus. He toured extensively as the founder and conductor of the Robert De Cormier Singers and the Vermont-based vocal ensemble ...


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Republicans May Block Nominees After Obama Recess Appointments - BusinessWeek
Posted on Jan 26, 2012 (8 days ago)

Republicans May Block Nominees After Obama Recess Appointments
BusinessWeek
Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who heads the Judiciary Committee, employed this practice when President George W. Bush was in office. In an interview today, Leahy said the rule has been “all over the board” and described “12 different ways” ...

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Letter Box - Brattleboro Reformer
Posted on Jan 26, 2012 (9 days ago)

Letter Box
Brattleboro Reformer
The risks are so high that the industry cannot get private insurance, and the federal government caps the liability at a miniscule proportion of the actual damage risk. It takes considerable arrogance on the part of the "power elite" (in this case the ...

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On deck this week in the Vermont Legislature - vt.Buzz (blog)
Posted on Jan 17, 2012 (18 days ago)

On deck this week in the Vermont Legislature
vt.Buzz (blog)
They will push for establishing a new way to measure economic growth, a Vermont State Bank and restrictions on state funding to organizations that have no greater than a 1 to 8 ratio between salaries of the highes and lowest paid employees.


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Grey Market Drugs: Profiting from Poorly Managed US Health Care - CorpWatch.org
Posted on Jan 22, 2012 (13 days ago)

CorpWatch.org
Grey Market Drugs: Profiting from Poorly Managed US Health Care
CorpWatch.org
In fact, half of the generic injectable drugs sold in the United States were on the shortages list, according to a November report by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. The AHA survey confirmed the extent of the problem with "82% of ...


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Wind turbine spins VT in green direction - Middlebury Campus (subscription)
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 (11 days ago)

Wind turbine spins VT in green direction
Middlebury Campus (subscription)
In celebration of Global Wind Day on June 15, 2011, Green Mountain Power (GMP) and Northern Power Systems (NPS), a Vermont-based wind turbine manufacturer, announced a contest to install a Northern Power 100 wind turbine to a site with strong wind, ...

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Woman is sentenced in $1.4M health care fraud - Bennington Banner
Posted on Jan 13, 2012 (21 days ago)

Woman is sentenced in $1.4M health care fraud
Bennington Banner
BURLINGTON (AP) -- A Vermont woman has been sentenced to a little over three years in prison for participating in a $1.4 million health insurance scheme. Sixty-three-year-old Sharon Johnson of West Dover was sentenced Thursday for conspiracy to commit ...

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Exclusive Interview: Obama's Democratic Challenger on the Issues - Uncovered Politics
Posted on Jan 18, 2012 (17 days ago)

Uncovered Politics
Exclusive Interview: Obama's Democratic Challenger on the Issues
Uncovered Politics
If memory serves me correctly, Brian also wanted to create a new Cabinet-level position and hoped to name a Vermont Socialist as the country's first Secretary of Culture & Arts. That would've been pretty cool. More importantly, I believe Brian intended ...

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Millennial Women are burning out at work by 30 … and it's great for business - National Post (registration)
Posted on Jan 13, 2012 (22 days ago)

National Post (registration)
Millennial Women are burning out at work by 30 … and it's great for business
National Post (registration)
Rebecca Woodcock, whose Cake Health is touted as the “Mint.com of health insurance” and was a darling of TechCrunch Disrupt says she was driven to leave her career in market research to find increased decision making power. “At the end of the day, ...

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