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In the next few weeks,lawmakers will consider a number of critical issues, including how to raise newtax revenue, local control over energy projects, an end of life bill and the decriminalization of marijuana.
Senate President John Campbell talks about these and other issues.
Also on the program, so, you think politics today are full of ugly partisan fighting? We've got nothing onthe politicians of the late 1700s. History writer Mark Bushnell looks at the epic battle between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans over the future of the country and the role of Vermont congressman Matthew Lyon played in it.
Plus, since the start of this year's ski season 52 people have called 9-1-1 after getting lost at Killington. VPR's Nina Keck caught up with a group of back-country ski enthusiasts that recently formed Killington Search and Rescue during a recent training exercise.
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