The free food program will end this week. A Stowe cop is accused of sex assault. And hospital officials worry about looming staffing shortages due to Covid-19 vax deadlines. These headlines and more from VT media today.
Guy Page
Guy Page is the principal of Page Communications, and the editor and publisher of Vermont Daily Chronicle, the Chronicle of the Vermont State House, and Vermont Water Cooler
Biden plan to audit bank transactions over $600 concerns Scott administration
President Biden wants the IRS to audit every bank transaction of $600 or more.
GOP sues Winooski, Montpelier for non-citizen voting
Vermont and national Republicans are suing Montpelier and Winooski for letting non-citizens vote in municipal elections.
The last election wasn’t stolen – we need to make sure the next one isn’t either
The country will be deeply damaged if there is enough evidence of fraud that the result of the coming presidential election is legitimately in doubt.
Climate headline SHOULD have said, ‘July no hotter than usual’
When climate feds called this July “the hottest July on record,” the Associated Press duly trumpeted the claim. Oops. They missed 1935 (and several other years).
Border crosser returned to Canada “to prevent further introduction of Covid-19”
The Border Patrol caught one potential Covid-carrying fish in Derby Line. Too bad about the 12,000 who got away in Del Rio.
UVM supercomputer to study climate, ‘online misinformation’
A huge, new gob of data will help researchers using the UVM supercomputer study climate change and “the spread of online misinformation,” UVM said Sept. 27.
$60 mil climate, infrastructure bonds head to Burlington voters
Burlington’s mayor and the City Council want voters to approve $60 million in new borrowing to fix the streets, rehab Memorial Auditorium, and save the climate.
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Ashamed of eugenics, Middlebury College changes name of chapel
A former governor and major Middlebury College donor will have his name stricken from the school chapel, due to his strong advocacy for Vermont eugenics legislation in 1914. Better late than never!
