Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
This afternoon, Republican Governor Jim Douglas is to veto the health care reform bill; Democrats in the Legislature launch a health care commission to study how Vermonters think health care should be structured; the Lake Champlain Basin program issues a state-of-the-lake report; the employees union at Specialty Filaments is plans to file an unfair labor practice complaint; CVPS says it has received a thirty year license for its Lamoille hydro-electric project.
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