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Protesters: ‘No’ to Hannaford By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com For approximately 30 residents of Hinesburg, Hannaford Supermarket looks like public enemy No. 1. The anti-development protesters gathered along curbsides last Sunday, near the site where the company plans to build its “green” supermarket. Hannaford Brothers Corp. said it would like to build a grocery outlet near the intersection of Commerce Street and Mechanicsville Road. The project would bring jobs and lower-cost food and beverages to the area, a Hannaford news release said. Hannaford is seeking an Act 250 permit. It still faces more scrutiny from Hinesburg’s Development Review Board. “This will be a good thing for the local economy. There will be new jobs created,” Hannaford spokesman Matthew Paul said. Town protesters last weekend did not agree. “This is just too big and will create too much traffic congestion in town,” said Darryl Suppan. “This is a giant supermarket; it’s just not something for little Hinesburg.” The new supermarket is perceived, by some, as a direct threat to Lantman’s Best Yet Market, a popular local grocer. The planned Hannaford would be twice the size of Lantman’s.
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Lt. Gov. Phil Scott (R) served lunch to residents at the Helen Porter Health and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury Feb. 10. The visit was part of Scott’s Vermont Everyday Jobs initiative. Would you like Scott to work at your business? Call his Montpelier office. Photos by Lou Varricchio
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By Lou Varricchio Physicians of the Vermont Medical Society (VMS) have spoken out in opposition against Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin’s (D) designs to expand the state’s taxpayer-funded Medicaid program for low-income residents. Shumlin also wants to add Catamount health insurance to the planned mix. Physicians are upset with Shumlin’s supposed “savings” plan with the Medicaid proposal in the driver ’s seat. They are also troubled by the Catamount plans. “The expansion of Medicaid without regard to income violates the social contract between the state and physicians who have accepted Medicaid’s below-cost reimbursement because they wanted to make sure that those in the greatest needed received care,” said Paula Duncan, M.D., VMS president. “Increasing the number of Medicaid patients while paying doctors substantially lower than all other payers would be financially devastating to physicians in the state. Many simply wouldn’t be able to afford to keep their doors open to new Medicaid patients.” Duncan is a professor of pediatrics at the University of
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newmarketpress@denpubs.com It has been barely a month since Vermont Lt. Gov. Phil Scott (R) was sworn in as the state’s number two office holder — he’s already rolled up his sleeves and made Ver-
mont jobs, business and public participation in state policymaking his top priority. Scott is working closely with newly elected Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) in bringing a unique, bipartisan top-level approach to state government — and local jobs appear to be number one for the new Montpelier duo.
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Welch bill would cut $40 billion in fuel supports By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vermont) and Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) and Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) co-introduced legislation that would cut $40 billion in subsidies to the oil industry over the next five years. Not a single Republican congressmen signed on to Welch’s bill which ap-
peared to fall along partisan lines. With a new Republican majority in the U.S. House that’s friendly to the fuel-oil industry, and with high gasoline prices at the pump, it’s unlikely the bill will be passed. However, if Welch’s bill moves forward, the Ending Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act (H.R. 601) would eliminate tax loopholes that have been used for years by America’s domestic and overseas petroleum industry.
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“Taxpayer support for mature, profitable industries makes no sense, particularly when we should be investing in the energy efficiency and clean energy sectors,” said Welch in a statement. H.R. 601 was previously introduced in the House last year following a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing. If approved by the House, H.R. 601 would move on to the pile of more than 300 bills now stalled in the U.S. Senate.
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