Gavel falls on 1977 Vermont legislature pay package
The Vermont 1977 session adjourned after 15 weeks with a landmark pay raise for state employees and legislators. The bill grants a 16.6 percent across the board raise, extends the work week, and enacts collective bargaining from 1979. Lawmakers also boost weekly pay and expenses, approve a state lottery, tighten unemployment benefit rules, and authorize debt to stabilize the unemployment fund.
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VSEA
Robert Babcock
State Labor Relations Board
House
Senate
Jacques-Anne Chouinard
State's determined on Route 7, but then virtually no new roads
Montpelier officials from Gov. Snelling on down insist on finishing the proposed Route 7 with a beltline option in Bennington County and bypasses to Manchester. A rebuilt two-lane Route 7 faces major environmental and historic preservation hurdles, including widening the corridor, removing buildings, and potentially affecting Arlington and Manchester historic districts and Battenkill River areas. See NEW HIGHWAYS on back page.
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Ronald Crisman
Arthur Goss
Vermont
Richard A. Snelling
Montpelier
Richard Snelling
Bennington
Manchester
Bennington County
East Dorset
Manchester Center
Arlington
Manchester Village
Pinney
GOP cool to Carter energy plan debate
Washington Republicans rejected Carter energy taxes and proposed no own plan yet They criticized welfare linkage and urged tax reform separate from energy policy While endorsing a crisis exists they warned against recession and questioned the administration's conservation taxes and incentives cited by Schlesinger
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Washington
UPI
Carter
House
John Rhodes
Senate
GOP
Howard Baker
Bill Brock
Republican National Committee
Rhodes
Baker
Brock
James Schlesinger
Schlesinger
Vermont lawmakers pause hundreds of bills for January session
Up to several hundred bills await action as Vermont lawmakers reconvene for the 1978 biennial session. Notable measures include a temporary court guardian bill to help parents pull grown children from religious cults, a Rathskeller Bill on campus alcohol sales, and a fluorocarbon aerosol ban. Other items seek to reorganize the Public Service Board and unify the state courts, with tax repeal and poll tax options also pending final action.
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Public Service Board
Snelling Sees Mixed Vermont Session as Productive
Vermont Governor Richard Snelling called the just adjourned session productive noting a balanced budget tax cuts and new laws but his biggest disappointment was lawmakers not acting on his proposal to restructure the Public Service Board. He said the administration and people fared well and will now focus on other functions.
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Burlington
UPI
Richard Snelling
Public Service Board
Snelling
Vermont
Cubans admit economic troubles amid talks with Minnesota businessmen
Cuba's officials told a Minnesota business delegation they face serious economic woes. Fidel Castro acknowledged deficiencies and Cuba's lack of own technologies while promising possible talks tied to the embargo. The report notes scarce consumer goods, rationing, and coffee cuts as sugar prices slump from over 60 cents to about 7–10 cents per pound, amid decentralization and import export pressures.
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Jerry Flint
N.Y. Times
Havana
Minnesota
Fidel Castro
Cuba
State Council
Angel Gomez- Trueba
Committee For Economic Cooperation
Castro
Africa
Middle East
Angola
Island
Hussein meets Carter in Washington for Middle East peace talks
President Carter and King Hussein of Jordan begin a three day working meeting at the White House on the South Lawn. They seek progress toward a permanent peace, with Hussein praising U S efforts and supporting human rights while noting regional divisions.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Hussein
Jordan
Middle East
White House
Mediterranean
United States
Mideast
Egypt
Anwar al Sadat
Yitzhak Rabin
Inside Edit and Page Notes Mixed History Reflections
Gerry Raftery contributes old history brought up to date in Inside Edit. The TRB column ponders leadership and whether Carter can manage it. Safire discusses Victor Lasky’s new book irking Nixon haters p.5. Manchester Loyalty Day parade cools rains. windmills energy idea noted. Thetford childbirth conference covered. A book review of Plugin Drug. Olympic equestrian named Vermont’s top athlete. stock halls gymkhana results. Celtics protest win. Seattle rout described.
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Gerry Raftery
TRB
Carter
Safire
Victor Lasky
Manchester
Atlantic
Thetford
Vermont
Stock Halls
Celtics
Seattle
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Vermonters
William Pinney
Division For Historic Preservation
The
Agency of Development and Community Affairs
Shaftsbury
Patty West
Lisa Paskiewicz
Cindy Carrano
Woolmington
Janet Henry
Donna
Annie
Donald Rutley
Ms. Henry
Iowa
D.C
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