Surtax and state aid to education linked in VT legislature
Rep Edwina Colvin reports a legislative battle over surtax use. One faction seeks a four year phaseout, another would repeal heating oil and electricity taxes, while Colvin favors escrow of surtax funds for two years to seed state aid to education. She notes Gov Snelling opposes immediate repeal and outlines a middle ground with two year escrow ending in towns receiving aid. Tonight a State House deer season hearing follows this debate.
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Edwina. Colvin
Shaftsbury
Miller
Rutland Herald
Snelling
Ding
State House
Vermont
Poll tax repeal eyed in Vermont Senate vote
In Montpelier Senator William Daniels plans to amend a tax reduction bill to repeal the poll tax, arguing it is regressive and hard to collect. Mayor Gordon Paquette backs state level repeal as critics note exemptions. Vermonters also face a Town Meeting Day poll with 17 questions on issues from phosphate bans to helmet laws.
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Gordon Paquette
Burlington
House
NESEA offices burn in Townshend February 6
Fire at the New England Solar Energy Association offices in Townshend Vermont destroyed much membership data and research. By week’s end NESEA planned new offices in Brattleboro and urged 1660 members to renew, while reorganizing for 1977 programs and fundraising.
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Townshend
New England Solar Energy Association
NESEA
John Schnebly
Elizabeth Shaw
Brattleboro
P.O. Box
Vermont
New England
Energy conservation workshop in Brattleboro
A Brattleboro energy conservation workshop led by Jim Stiles of Friends of the Sun will be held Saturday Feb 26 from 9 to 1 at Brooks Memorial Library. The event is part of a four part series by Community College of Vermont and Vermont Tomorrow. Admission is $2 at the door. The talk covers energy savings, heat and electricity conservation at home, with research included. Stiles holds a BS in environmental science from Marlboro College and is compiling a book on cost effective energy options for homeowners.
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Brattleboro
Brooks Memorial Library
Jim Stiles
Friends of the Sun
Community College of Vermont
Vermont Tomorrow
Energy Workshop
Stiles
Marlboro College
Vermont staff form independent union at state association
Ten staff members of the Vermont State Employer Association have organized their own bargaining unit to negotiate a contract. VSEA Executive Secretary Robert Babcock disclosed the move, a development that puts him in the awkward position of representing management in labor talks with his own staff.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
VSEA
Robert Babcock
Babcock
Vermont moves toward state lottery and pay raise vote
Vermont faces a House Appropriations Committee endorsement for a state sweepstakes bill after passage through Ways and Means and General Committees. Backers cite potential annual revenue of two to three million dollars. Rep James Jeffords says he will refuse a 13 thousand dollar pay raise for Congress if Vermonters oppose it, and he joined others in a suit seeking to strike down the raise.
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Bennington
Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
New England
House Appropriations Committee
Ways and Means
House
Senate
U.S. Supreme Court
Goddard College Faculty Union files unfair labor charges
Carla Thomas of the Goddard College American Federation of Teachers says the union filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board on Friday. The charges arise from administration plans to lay off 19 teachers at the financially troubled school, with the union contending other cost-cutting options were not fully explored.
Lawmaker floats bet on professional sports via off track system
In Albany Rep. Stanley Steingut proposed letting New Yorkers bet on pro sports through off track betting. He said the plan could net the state about 100 million dollars formerly enriching organized crime. He did not specify which sports would be included.
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Schenectady
State Assembly
Stanley Steingut
Steingut
Berkshire Recycling Council Meeting Faces Possible End
An emergency Berkshire Berkshire-Bennington Counties Recycling Council meeting was held in Pittsfield with eight members present including director David L. Burg. Funds are nearly depleted and the council plans to announce BBCRC’s future later this week as it tries to keep towns involved in recycling despite reduced membership from 16 to 14 after Bennington and Williamstown left.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire-Bennington Counties Recycling Council
BBCRC
David L. Burg
Bbcrc Future
Bennington
Williamstown
Fire burns father of two in oil stove accident
David Sires 30 of Summer Street is in serious condition at Albany Medical Burns Center after flames engulfed over 80 percent of his body Sunday. Officials say he added an oil-based liquid to a wood burning stove causing his clothes to ignite. He faces four to six weeks of hospitalization.
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Lee
Summer Street
David Sires
Albany Medical Burns Center
Sires
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