Wake-Up Call: Friday, May 30, 2008

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With the PolitickerVT.com Wake-Up Call e-mailed to your inbox, phone, Blackberry or PDA first thing in the morning, you can get a rundown of Vermont's top political headlines. Sign up to get the Wake-Up Call delivered every morning.

Pollina presses on in bid for governor

Progressive Party gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina is continuing with his bid for the state's highest office this afternoon.

Pollina told reporters at a press conference on the steps of Burlington city hall that he plans on staying in the race, and wanted to "end the speculation and to outline a strategy for winning the office of governor of Vermont." (PolitickerVT.com, Danny Reiter)

Link: http://www.politickervt.com/danielreiter/990/pollina-presses-bid-governo...

Douglas administration questions Entergy reorganization

MONTPELIER -- Three weeks after Gov. Jim Douglas vetoed legislation seeking guarantees behind the Vermont Yankee decommissioning fund, his administration is raising its own questions about the financial stability of a proposed new owner for the nuclear plant. (Burlington Free Press, AP)

Link: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080530/N...

Pollina denies splitting Democrats

As Progressive gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina affirmed his candidacy Thursday and fended off pressure to bow out of the race, he sought to counter what he called a myth that has dogged his party in election after election. Progressives don't necessarily take votes from Democrats, he argued. (Burlington Free Press, Terri Hallenbeck)

Link:  http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080530/N...

Governor signs smoke detector bill

BARRE CITY — On a cold December day in 2005, Barre City firefighters carried the bodies of four young children and a mother from their second-story Eastern Avenue apartment. (Rutland Herald, Peter Hirschfeld)

Link: http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080530/NEWS04/...

Douglas will let bill legalizing hemp become law

MONTPELIER — Gov. James Douglas will allow a bill legalizing hemp to become law despite concerns from the law enforcement community about its impact on marijuana eradication efforts in the state. (Rutland Herald, Peter Hirschfeld)

Link: http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080530/NEWS03/...

Housing for Vermont's homeless

MONTPELIER — In many ways, Vermont is already paying to house and care for its homeless.

Visits to local shelters, hospital emergency rooms, local prisons or jails by the state's homeless population are being paid for through residents' taxes, insurance premiums or other financial sources. (Rutland Herald, Daniel Barlow)

Link: http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080530/NEWS01/...

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