Governor Jim Douglas and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick are hosting a forum on health care up at UVM today. The forum itself is invitation-only, and it starts at 1 p.m.

There’s a rally in progress up at UVM as I type this.

The photo is from Shay Totten, who’s on the scene with Seven Days reporter Mike Ives. Both of them are posting updates to Twitter — click here to follow them.

Here’s a sample of what they’ve posted so far:

ShayTotten: Don at Small Dog says health care coverage needs to be decoupled from employment so folks aren’t stuck on dead end jobs for benefits #vtrhf

ShayTotten: Dr. Marvin Malek – former VT Lt. Gov. candidate – shares with crowd the list used by insurance companies to deny claims #vtrhf They’ll have more comprehensive updates when they return, but for now, you can follow along here.

This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2009.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...