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4.10.2007

 

Encouraging business

The Vermont House is tackling two bills this week intended to make it easier for some local businesspeople to connect with their customers.

Tuesday, the House gave preliminary approval to a bill (H.94) that would allow local stores that sell beer and wine to carry high-test beers -- those with up to 16 percent alcohol by volume. This would let some micro-brews reach out more broadly. Currently they may be sold in state liquor outlets but not where you pickup your "Bud."

Wednesday, the House will consider a bill (S.120) that would allow wine-tasting at farmer's markets. A wine-maker could get a special license to offer "local grape juice" to folks buying the fixings for a salad.

There were critics of the beer bill, Tuesday, although their voices were pretty weak when it came time to vote. They worried the bill would encourage youthful drinkers who could now get drunk quicker because of the increased alcohol by volume.

Supporters said this kind of high-test beer is an acquired taste> It's beer that one sips! And it's pricey.

Rep. John Rodgers, D-Glover, argued that anyone looking for a drunk would be smarter to invest in a bottle of 100 proof vodka for $10.

"I don't believe kids will drink it," Rodgers told House members. "I don't believe they will spend the extra cost." Rodgers, lead sponsor of the bill, put the bill in perspective -- the kind that usually delivers votes. "Support economic development and agricultural diversity and our successful microbreweries."

Sounds like a toast. If he had just started with "Here's to ...."


--Nancy Remsen

Comments:
Those are just small things.
 
At least three retired four-star generals approached by the White House have declined the position [of Commander in Charge of the Wars in Iraq and Afganistan], underscoring the administration's difficulty in enlisting its top recruits to join the team after five years of warfare that have taxed the United States and its military.

"The very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going," said retired Marine Gen. John J. "Jack" Sheehan, a former top NATO commander who was among those rejecting the job.
 
Off subject, but I couldn't help notice that while the governor of New Mexico is holding negotiations with North Korea on nuclear weapons, the governor of Vermont is speaking at the Lake Champlain Sea Lamprey Summit. Is there a lamprey ribbon to chop in half?
 
Matt Dunne, Gaye Symington, Peter
Shumlin....................
 
"'The very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going,' said retired Marine Gen. John J. 'Jack' Sheehan, a former top NATO commander who was among those rejecting the position of Commander in Charge of the Wars in Iraq and Afganistan]. Sheehan said he believes that Vice President Cheney and his hawkish allies remain more powerful within the administration than pragmatists looking for a way out of Iraq. 'So rather than go over there, develop an ulcer and eventually leave, I said, "No, thanks," ' he said. . . .
 
Matt Dunne????????????????
 
Matt Dunne is running for Governor.
Check Freynes blog.
 
Rep. John Rogers is another liberal pinhead that is sponsoring the Bush impeachment crap. I guess instead of doing things to help over-taxed, over-regulated Vermonters, he introduces useless legislation like this. By the way, I still haven't heard any legal grounds for impeachment seeing as how the Senate ratified the war. I guess the little pansies will have to be content to stamp their petulent little feet and continue to throw hissy fits. What has happened to Vermont!!!
 
Now Douglas is up to his old tricks again. I guess he'd rather win another election rather than help Vermonters lower their taxes.
 
He won't win the election now that he has to face Dunne.
 
While liberal pinheads like Rogers push for some stupid impeachment bill or new taxes, EHV Weidmann has announced this morning that it will not expand in Vermont even though business is booming because of the taxes and idiotic regulations in Vermont. St. Johnsbury's best employer. Way to go, idiots!
 
EHV has been poorly managed for a decade.

It isn't expanding in Vermont because local management has done poorly.

Don't blame Vermont for managemements stupidity.
 
Why is business booming at EHV in St. Johnsbury? Why don't you read what EHV rep has to say about VERMONT!!! Apparently the only thing Vermont wants to be number 1 at is high taxes and greatest number of idiots per capita. Who is going to pay for all of your welfare when the last employer shuts off the lights in Vermont?
 
Bubba, why don't you post some links to the EHV statements you're talking about?

I have heard nothing about EHV & I would be in a position to.
 
REad today's Caledonian Record. The rest of the far-left Vermont media will bury anything critical of the dimocrat's effects on working Vermonters and business.
 
haven't head a thing about it. Yes Vermont is perceived to be business unfriendly, but decisions like that aren't made locally, they're made in corporate boardrooms far from here.
also keep in mind an exec from EHV is on the Stj Select board. If they needed help form Stj They'd probably get it. If they don't ask, they wont.

The CalRec will slant anything they can to make the town look bad.
 
Kind of a strange comment seeing as how the Caledonian is probably the only paper in Vermont still run by locals as opposed to out of state far-left sycophants for the dimocrat/progressives. They have been tireless supporters of their town and have consistently fought the leftist elitists that have done so much damage to their area as well as the entire state.
 
Ya by publishing GOP talking points verbatim as editorials.

That's some local control.
 
Yeah, I guess advocating the free enterprise system, hard work, individual responsibility, protection of our children, lowering taxes for all, and encouraging local control are all just Republican talking points. Sure glad you reminded me! Almost forgot that they are just reminders of the pre-liberal flatlander invasion days, as opposed to today's dimocrat talking points that have done so much for Vermont! You know, number one in taxes, number 50 in business climate, etc.
 
Angry with not receiving your Free Press in the morning? Flood this blog with comments each and every day you don't get a paper, we will FORCE Free Press circulation department to get their act together!
 
And we spend alot of money on public schools and get?
 
And we spend a lot of money on the war in Iraq and get ... ?
 
And we spend a lot of money on public schools, Iraq and politicians and get...?
 
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