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Vermont Business Magazine Nasdaq, Inc (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announced today the acquisition of OneReport, Inc, a privately-held provider of corporate responsibility and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data management and reporting services based in Brattleboro. OneReport will accelerate the delivery of Nasdaq’s recently-announced ESG reporting and workflow solution, to be named Nasdaq OneReport. The platform is now available to companies as part of the suite of solutions offered by Nasdaq’s Corporate Services business. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Vermont Business Magazine One hundred forty Vermont businesses from diverse industries completed the latest annual economic survey in January regarding the outlook of Vermont’s small- to medium-sized businesses. The survey, presented by Davis and Hodgdon Associates CPAs and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, revealed that business owners’ attitude about the Vermont economy has become increasingly more ambivalent over the last five years, while optimism in the US has improved over the same timeframe and significantly since January 2019.

Vermont Business Magazine Ledyard Financial Group (Ticker Symbol: LFGP), with an office in Norwich, has announced a regular quarterly dividend of $0.18 payable November 30, 2018 to shareholders of record as of November 9, 2018.

Ledyard Financial Group, Inc., headquartered in Hanover, New Hampshire, is the holding company for Ledyard National Bank. Ledyard National Bank, founded in 1991, is a full service community bank offering a broad range of banking, investment, tax and wealth management.

Source: HANOVER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ledyard Financial Group

Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont’s Board of Trustees today approved changes to its Guidelines for Selection of University Trustees to reinforce the importance of seeking diversity when recruiting new members to the Board.

“While considerations about the diversity that a candidate may bring to the Board have been on our minds throughout the time I have served on the Board, the changes to this document are significant because they commit us in writing—as part of our official Board guidelines—to be deliberate in our diversity efforts,” said Frank Cioffi, chair of the Committee on Board Governance.

Two new sentences were added to the guidelines:

Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power (GMP) is inviting customers to a bi-annual open house this Tuesday, February 4, at GMP’s district office in St Johnsbury. The timing of the event coincides with the company’s recently filed Climate Plan and will provide a chance for customers to talk with GMP leaders about this and other topics including operations, storm response, and strategies to reduce energy and lower costs.

Vermont Business Magazine Marathon Health, a Winooski-based leading provider of onsite and nearsite health centers for employers, today announced its selection as the 2020 Best in KLAS in the worksite health services category. The Best in KLAS Award is a third-party measurement of customer experience from 8 vendors and 178 employers with worksite health centers. KLAS is an independent research firm that has been providing impartial insights to the healthcare industry since 1996.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont House and Senate Committees on Appropriations are seeking public input on the Governor’s Recommended FY 2021 State Budget and will hold community-based public hearings on Monday, February 10, 2020, at the following locations: Barre City; Dorset; Morrisville; Rutland City; St. Johnsbury; St. Albans City; Winooski; Bennington; Springfield.

Leonine Public Affairs Week four of the 2020 legislative session brought the second annual NEK (Northeast Kingdom) Day to the statehouse. More than 100 NEK residents, business owners, artists and entrepreneurs came to Montpelier to talk to legislators about the opportunities and challenges facing the region and to encourage a variety of rural economic development strategies. The top issues that were highlighted included broadband, Act 250, the creative economy and outdoor recreation.

Vermont Business Magazine Betty ’93 and Paul Mayer of Shelburne, Vermont have made an extraordinary gift in support of women’s basketball at the University of Vermont (UVM), Director of Athletics Jeff Schulman announced this afternoon before the team tipped-off against the University at Albany. The gift is the largest ever made exclusively to a UVM women’s athletics program and will permanently endow the Elizabeth F. Mayer ’93 and Paul J. Mayer, M.D. Women’s Basketball Head Coach.

Vermont Business Magazine When the Soviet Union disintegrated in the early 1990s, food production on the island of Cuba was reduced—as the supply of Russian fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, and oil dried up. Under the stress of an imminent food crisis, the island quickly rebuilt a new form of diversified farming—including many urban organic gardens—that depended less on imported synthetic chemicals. Over the last two decades, Cuba blossomed into a worldwide model for conservation agriculture, with improved soils and cleaner water.

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) The President’s decision to roll back the policy on anti-personnel landmines is as perplexing as it is disappointing, and reflexive, and unwise. As far as I know, Congress was not consulted about this decision, despite requests to be consulted. The policy that has been in place, limiting the use of this inherently indiscriminate weapon to the Korean Peninsula, was the culmination of nearly 30 years of incremental steps, taken by both Democratic and Republican administrations after extensive analysis and consultation, toward the growing global consensus that anti-personnel mines should be universally banned.

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today did what was expected he would do with the recently passed family leave bill except that he did it faster than expected. Scott announced his veto of the bill Friday afternoon and that he will move forward with his own voluntary paid family and medical leave program. He said he vetoed H107 because it levied a $29 million payroll tax on Vermont workers to fund a mandatory paid leave program.

The Vermont House passed H.107, the Paid Family and Medical Leave bill, January 23 on a vote of 89-58. The Senate had passed it on a 20-9 vote on January 17th.

The Democratic leadership in the House would need 100 votes to override the veto.