Document: Opting out of national telecom plan could cost Vermont millions

A confidential draft memo circulating among state officials as Vermont prepares to decide whether to join a national public safety communications project is being likened by one member of a state review panel to a mafia protection racket.
“I grew up in New Jersey,” said Ron Kumetz, a representative of volunteer firefighters to the Vermont Public Safety Broadband Commission. “There were certain family-owned businesses that would send around a ‘health adviser,’ who wo