LEGISLATION IN VERMONT

Vermont Guardian Vol

In most parts of the world, the phrase “town meeting” can mean just about any gathering where local citizens offer their opinions, hear from candidates, or endure the latest government “dogand-pony show.” As Susan Clark and Frank Bryan readily admit in All Those in Favor, their new and timely book on Vermont’s town meetings, references to the term in college textbooks “are as apt to be found in...

Increasing Incidence of Blastomycosis Infection in Vermont

The history of surgery in Vermont.

I n 1609, while exploring the lake that now bears his name, Samuel de Champlain looked to the east and exclaimed, “Voila les vert monts.” The Green Mountain State was an inhospitable place at that time; few dared to settle there until after the end of the French and Indian War, in 1763. By 1771, the population of Vermont was 4667 people. They led a difficult existence, and the earliest surgeons...

Vermont Wildlife Linkage Habitat Analysis

Lex: Legislation in XML

This paper presents a proposal for an open XML standard for the markup of legal documents: METALex. The standard provides a generic and easily extensible framework for the XML encoding of the structure and contents of legal and paralegal documents. It differs from other existing metadata schemes in two respects: It is language and jurisdiction independent and it aims to accommodate uses of XML ...