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VT Home \Uninhabitable\ If Power Company Uses Eminent Domain
The homeowners and family. Credit: vpr.netTwo artists who own a mountaintop home in Vermont say that a ruling allowing a power company to use eminent domain to erect a giant communications tower very ...
08 Aug, 2012
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VT Home "Uninhabitable" If Power Company Uses Eminent Domain
The homeowners and family. Credit: vpr.netTwo artists who own a mountaintop home in Vermont say that a ruling allowing a power company to use eminent domain to erect a giant communications tower very ...
08 Aug, 2012
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Roger Pion, VT Farmer on Tractor Trashes Police Cars, His Life
Shortly after noon on Thursday, August 2, Vermont farmer Roger Pion, 34, rode his parents’ 20,000 pound tractor into Newport, Vermont, on his way to the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department’s new build ...
06 Aug, 2012
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Vermont Sued Again For Taser Abuse, This Time Fatal
The State of Vermont is once again defending its police in court against charges of taser abuse, but this time the taser use was fatal for a disoriented, unarmed artist suffering the after-effects of ...
05 Aug, 2012
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Vermont Officials Play Marx Brothers in Wake of Police Violence
Credit: 7dblogs.comLike the line attributed to Groucho Marx, several Vermont officials are denying reports of police violence at a protest by telling the public in effect: “Who are you going to belie ...
04 Aug, 2012
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The Gay Marriage Debate: Both Sides Are Missing the Point
Photo: James HarrisThe battle raging between proponents of gay marriage and those in opposition to it have missed the mark entirely. This is not to dismiss the concerns of either side, but rather to ...
03 Aug, 2012
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Republican Filibuster Blocks Cybersecurity Bill
A Senate cybersecurity bill failed to pass today as the result of a Republican filibuster, falling just eight votes shy of the 60 needed to advance to a final vote.As IVN has reported, the cybersecuri ...
02 Aug, 2012
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Police Violence Precedes Governor’s Conference in Vermont
Credit: dylankelley.blogspot.comNew England governors and friends were on their way to a dinner party prior to a conference in Burlington, VT and found the way blocked by pedestrians and protesters. ...
31 Jul, 2012
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No Tar Sands Pipeline in VT Say Protesters, Despite FBI Visits
Credit: world350.orgIf you’re an oil company trying to get dirty tar sands oil from central Canada to a tanker port on the Maine Coast, why not just reverse the flow of a 71-year old pipeline that al ...
28 Jul, 2012
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Corrupt Campaign Finance an Unequal Venture
Credit: occupyboston.orgHarvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig knows about the money that flows through the election cycle. Just this Tuesday, Lessig testified before Congress at a hearing regarding t ...
27 Jul, 2012
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