SHORTS

Doc pleads guilty to drug distribution

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By Alex Nuti – de Biasi, Journal Opinion

A doctor based in the Upper Connecticut River Valley pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to illegally distribute controlled substances.

Per a news release, Adnan S. Khan, 48, of Grantham, NH and a co-conspirator prescribed controlled substances to New England Medicine and Counseling Associates patients (including some in Vermont) despite knowing that their patients were diverting the prescriptions.

NEMCA operated a network of clinics in New England that purportedly provided clinical treatment services for persons suffering from substance use disorder.

After the U.S. Department of Justice formed a task force to investigate health care fraud, Khan warned staff not to speak with anyone about the clinic’s practices.

Khan’s sentencing will take place at a later date.
‘Snoah Gahan’ among new plow truck names

The Vermont Agency of Transportation will be visiting scores of schools around the state this morning after it received 118 new names for its big orange plow trucks through this year’s Name a Plow program for Vermont schools.

The new 2024 plow names will replace the old names for all schools that participated in the past and again this year. Plow trucks that were named previously by schools that did not send a new name this year will keep their current names. The complete list of plow names is available at https://vtrans.vermont.gov/name-a-plow.

Local entries are listed below:
Blue Mountain Union School: BMU Blade
Newbury Elementary School: Snowbuster
Open Fields School: Enchilllada
Thetford
Elementary School: Snoah Gahan
Waits River Valley School: Spidey the Snowblower
Westshire Elementary School: Snow Buster
Climate Council meets today

The Vermont Climate Council will hold a series of public input sessions this month on reducing climate pollution across various sectors. There is one today on transportation at 12:30 and one tomorrow on rural resilience and businesses tomorrow. Full calendar here.

Meanwhile, the Vermont Clean Water Board will hold a public hearing tomorrow at 8 a.m. in Montpelier with remote participation available.

The Clean Water Budget public comment process runs through Nov. 17. 

“Vermonters can weigh in on how they would like to prioritize approximately $44.5 million in funding for projects to protect and improve the quality of water in our rivers, lakes, ponds, and wetlands.”

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  1. Climate council. forty four and a half million dollars. Just another massive tin cup sucking operation.

  2. I’m reminded of the late, great Ross Perot and his warning about a “Giant sucking sound”. He was referring to NAFTA causing jobs to leave the US for Mexico (and he was gosh-darn right in retrospect), but it applies here to the Green New Wealth Transfer Scam as well. And for those still asleep, that wealth transfer is from you to the (so-called) “elites”.

    Take the RED pill!