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It was my great pleasure and privilege to participate in another Council of State Governments Eastern Regional Conference (CSG ERC) webinar on Friday and Saturday, this one titled âCarbon Sequestration from the Ground Up: Opportunities in Northeastern Farms and Forests.â This is a topic the Vermont House Agriculture and Forestry Committee has been working on for several years that excites me because it reveals the roles that agriculture and forestry can play in climate change mitigation that, at the same time, may benefit our farmers and forest owners.
The panel that I moderated on Friday was the Roundtable on State Healthy Soils Legislation/ Programs. We heard presentations from speakers from Vermont, Maryland, and New York. Given that Earth Day was the day before the webinar and having watched a PBS special program on Greta Thunbergâs work the night before, it was very interesting to hear what other states are d
weekly political column. Tim Newcomb Last Friday, House Speaker
Jill Krowinski (D-Burlington) ducked and withdrew her proposal, made 10 days earlier, for closing the enormous gap of more than $3 billion between what s on hand in the state s pension funds and what s needed to cover pensions for retired state workers and teachers in coming years. Instead, she announced plans to appoint a summer task force to study the issue and recommend reforms to lawmakers in January. Of course, pension fund problems compound with time; waiting another year to fix them only makes matters worse. So let s call this the midterm report card, or perhaps the end-of-semester assessment in a tough, two-year course. And by tough, I mean two things should be acknowledged: 1. It will be difficult to come up with a solution that no one will like but everyone will deem tolerable. 2. It absolutely has to be done
Corrections officials unable to pinpoint start of COVID-19 outbreak Share Updated: 6:31 PM EST Mar 4, 2021 Matt Leighton Share Updated: 6:31 PM EST Mar 4, 2021
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Show Transcript we learned today. matt.. WELL ALICE AND BRIAN OFFICIALS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION DID GIVE AN UPDATE TODAY ON THE OUTBREAK AT THE FACILITY IN NEWPORT. DOZENS OF INMATES HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE VIRUS BUT ONE QUESTION THAT S STILL UNKNOWN IS EXACTLY HOW IT MADE ITS WAY INSIDE. JIM BAKER / VT CORRECTIONS COMMISSIONER - THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT AND CRITICAL EVENT SO FAR.NEARLY 130 INMATES AND 10 STAFF MEMBERS AT NORTHERN STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN NEWPORT HAVE TESTE POSITIVE FOR COVID-19. TESTING RAMPED UP AFTER AN EMPLOYEE TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE VIRUS IN THE MIDDLE OF FEBRUARY.. EVERYONE THERE WAS TESTED ABOUT A WEEK LATER. THOSE RESULTS FOUND ANOTHER STAFF MEMBER AND 21 INMATES WERE POSITIVE. CONTACT TRACING BEGAN TO F
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