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Jon Margolis

Will politics delay the money?

Congress approving more money for FEMA could bring weeks of debate, with Vermonters used as pawns in a partisan process

Where's the money?

At least 31 bridges damaged or destroyed. “Miles and miles and miles” of highway in rubble, in the words of Robert Stirewalt, a public information officer for the Vermont Division of Emergency Management. The State Office Complex in Waterbury is a wreck. Not to mention all the homes and businesses knocked down or swept away.

How many? The state isn't even trying to count them all yet.

“We're not doing an inventory now,” Stirewalt said. “We're just now moving from response to recovery.”...

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Vermont GOP starts planning for 2012 elections

Salmon may challenge Shumlin, while Brock mulls run for auditor or treasurer

Six possible statewide Republican candidates recently got together at party headquarters in Montpelier to start talking about next year's campaign. They did not decide who would run for what. “It was essentially a meeting to talk about 2012, but no decisions were reached,” said Sen. Randy Brock, R-Grand Ise-Franklin,

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