Find these news and politics stories in this week’s Seven Days…
- In Burlington, one resident has kept up her fight against a neighbor’s backyard guitar-building shop for a year and a half. The case could reach the Vermont Supreme Court.
- The Department of Homeland Security has dropped plans to run an “internal checkpoint” 100 miles from the Vermont/Quebec border — though it’s too late for one man who faces deportation.
- University of Vermont researchers are working on technology to allow maple farmers to harvest sap from young saplings rather than the less-plentiful mature trees.
- As part of the love and marriage issue, here’s a look back at the path to marriage equality for same-sex couples.
- In Fair Game: How one soldier’s allegations of sexual assault changed the Vermont National Guard. Plus, find out who’s giving big bucks to Gov. Peter Shumlin’s Democratic Governors Association, and why the Committee on Committees isn’t a committee — at least when it comes to letting the public and press inside.
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“In Burlington, one resident has kept up her fight against a neighbor’s backyard guitar-building shop for a year and a half. The case could reach the Vermont Supreme Court. “
What do you folks in smaller towns, towns which lack zoning offices, do to torment each other?
Vermont’s drug crisis :
“Those deaths are sad, but in a state with 626,000 residents, they should not be driving major decisions about law enforcement, medical resources, and health policy. As the Vermont Department of Health reports, “mortality due to drugs in Vermont has not changed greatly over the past nine years….these data do not suggest that deaths from any one specific type of drug is increasing or decreasing over the span of multiple years.â€
Read more: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Heroin Problem Does Not Constitute a Crisis ¦ TIME.com http://ideas.time.com/2014/02/…