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Created October 20, 2009
23 Suggestions| Status: None I am part of the Vermont brain-drain, having gone off to college in the late 70's, dropped out to work in computing in MA's "Massachusetts Miracle" years, and then in my mid-20's returned to Montpelier. There were no jobs. I was either overqualified, or Created by guest | 0 comments  | Status: None Give incentives for workers to form cooperatives and collectives. Protect workers with a living wage. Form local councils to discuss regional quotas and production targets. Created by guest | 2 comments | Status: None The Use Value Appraisal system changed the local tax system so forests and farms count less as property to be taxed. Ending or curtailing this will have one effect: more land sold to developers. Protect our environment and local growing opportunities by p Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None The citizens of Vermont have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that no one else in the United States has ever had. In the coming year our democratically elected legislature will have the opportunity to vote to close a nuclear power plant. The world's lar Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None Reading through the proposals below it is clear that many of them are facets of a single theme and mutually support each other.
I think it is important to recognize this and not fall into a trap of jobs versus health-care versus farms versus....
Just Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None Enact competitive film & television production incentives to to keep local film producers' business in state and encourage the economic activity, jobs, and tax revenue generated by this significant sector of the national creative economy. Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None Sustainable jobs that employ Vermonters are critically important to our economic future. Thanks for asking! Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None Ensure that every community has the infrastructure necessary to communicate on the internet and by cell phone....we are preparing our students for a future that will be reliant on technology at a higher level than now.
Access is an equity issue for ever Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None Let Vermont be the pilot for the most sensible and efficient health care system. Created by guest | 1 comment | Status: None Yeah. I know it spoils the ridgeline views. But we aren't going to be able to be a state rich in small organic farms, innovative high tech collectives, and all the other trappings of a 21st century oasis in a mad world without producing a lot of our own e Created by guest | 7 comments | Status: None ...so we create more value from local resources and retain that value in the VT economy. Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None My biggest concern is making Vermont a model for educational opportunity in the US. We have such advantages in education with a relatively "easy" population and high per student spending and lots of school support that if we can't get this right, who can? Created by guest | 1 comment | Status: None A small sustainable state which is an innovative leader in small scale farming, green technology and which supports many vibrant cultural centers focused around the arts, hard physical work and cross-intercultural dialogue. It is a little think tank and Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None I am all for fiscally responsible state government, wind power and other alternative energy sources, stopping the greedy development of our farmlands and woodlands, and construction of mega-houses on our mountaintops. There is nothing more ugly than seein Created by guest | 1 comment | Status: None a state that is philosophically and politically a little edgy; front and center in prioritizing caring for all citizens, especially those with individual "needs." Vermont will treat every need as an opportunity for learning and growth, ever building stro Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None This is the most personal, important thing to me and will be the main influence for which candidate I pick. Created by guest | 0 comments | Status: None For more than a decade a group of us---dedicated to keeping Vermont's small farmers farming, are developing a farm-based community. To learn more about our project please see: www.ryegatecommons.org Created by guest | 0 comments
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