Louras

"The only way to fix the problem is to blow it up and start over," Louras said.

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On February 24, the Republican Mayor Christopher Louras, of Rutland, urged the state to adopt the single-payer legislation, noting that more than a third of the city's $7 million annual payroll is consumed by healthcare costs.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Vermont Poised to Pass Single-Payer The Media Consortium 2011

"The only way to fix the problem is to blow it up and start over," Louras said.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Vermont Poised to Pass Single-Payer The Media Consortium 2011

On February 24, the Republican Mayor Christopher Louras, of Rutland, urged the state to adopt the single-payer legislation, noting that more than a third of the city's $7 million annual payroll is consumed by healthcare costs.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Vermont Poised to Pass Single-Payer The Media Consortium 2011

"The only way to fix the problem is to blow it up and start over," Louras said.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Media Consortium 2011

On February 24, the Republican Mayor Christopher Louras, of Rutland, urged the state to adopt the single-payer legislation, noting that more than a third of the city's $7 million annual payroll is consumed by healthcare costs.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Media Consortium 2011

Those issues were the same ones raised by Alan Shelvey, Department of Public Works commissioner, the week before: that the city will continue its responsibility for street maintenance during the project, receive guaranteed access to its utilities on the site and assurance that if the project is not completed the road will be put back and returned to the city's control, Louras said.

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"As far as I'm concerned when there's an ongoing criminal investigation, I'm not going to second-guess an outside agency's opinion," Louras said, when asked if he would have acted sooner to have the officer removed from duty if he knew of the investigation.

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Louras said Thursday that Bossi told him the documents were e-mailed to him Friday.

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"If he had seen the contents on September 23rd, the person would have been put on administrative leave at that time prior to then, prior to the time the chief said in this and also told me yesterday that he did not feel he had enough information at that time to put them on administrative leave," Louras said.

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