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Transparency can help mend rifts over Marlboro/Emerson plan

Transparency can help mend rifts over Marlboro/Emerson plan

The proposed Marlboro College/Emerson College merger has generated a lot of concern about what might happen to the college campus, and at some point, on the various Facebook pages and groups that have been discussing the merger, I heard someone say it was hard to keep track of all the possibilities being floated.

So I put together this flow chart on the options for the campus.

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Thanks to a cadre of citizen lobbyists, our lawmakers heard firsthand the bitter results of a regulatory policy of ‘any solar, anywhere, anytime’ pushed by the well-paid professional renewable-energy lobby

Vermont prides itself on having citizen legislators, as opposed to professional politicians, while the lobbying in Montpelier for special interests is done by well-funded professional lobbyists. For the past eight years, our legislators and regulators have been bombarded by renewable-energy lobbyists. The message has been that Vermont must do...

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