This Week's Issue: Daycare Nightmares, Telecom Troubles, Motel Money

In this week’s print edition of Seven Days, which is still totally free:

In our cover story, Ken Picard reports on serious health and safety violations at Vermont’s regulated day care centers and why the state has resisted shutting down some of the worst offenders.
A grassroots campaign called Keep BT Local wants to purchase Burlington Telecom and reorganize it as a co-op, similar to City Market. But with time running out, Kevin J. Kelley reports their pledge drive is well short of its goal.
Kathryn Flagg digs deeper into her December story about state-funded motel stays for homeless Vermonters, and finds some local motels are making a killing by putting up Vermonters without shelter.
In Fair Game, Paul Heintz has more on the story he broke about how an anonymous letter ended Brig. Gen. Jonathan Farnham’s bid to become the Vermont National Guard’s next leader.
On a lighter note, the Seven Days staff scoured the region to find the best hot chocolate in Vermont. Tough assignment, huh?
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