Peter Shumlin has announced proposals for “significant” state investments in higher education, a more aggressive push for renewable energy, and a prescription drug-monitoring plan aimed at curbing the availability of opiate pain killers.
Those are the main initiatives outlined in the governor’s State of the State address, which focuses largely on the stories of heroism in the days and weeks after Tropical Storm Irene.
Shumlin will close his speech in a couple moments by issuing what appears to be a no-new-taxes pledge.
“I remain determined,” he will say, “not to increase broad-based taxes on Vermonters as we begin to see signs of modest economic growth.”
That may not sit well with members of Occupy Vermont, a contingent of whom is sitting in the House gallery.
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