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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott and the Agency of Commerce and Community Development today announced the awarding of ThinkVermont Innovation Grants. The grants support new business strategies that accelerate growth and support vibrant communities, while also serving as a model and roadmap for other businesses to follow.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Wednesday welcomed as a “breakthrough” an advisory opinion published by the Judicial Conference of the United States’ Committee on Codes of Conduct that warns federal judges and their clerks against participating in events sponsored by anonymously funded partisan organizations. The guidance follows revelations that a Heritage Foundation training program, funded by “generous donors” seeking to make “financial investments” in attendees, required participants to sign agreements tantamount to loyalty pledges.

Vermont Business Magazine National results show that college completion patterns among Black, Hispanic, white, and Asian four-year, public starters vary widely across states, according to a new nationwide report released today by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Vermont results indicate college students finished here at a much higher rate than the national average for Asian and white students and for an overall completion rate at over 75 percent. Vermont was below average when private colleges were analyzed, at 74.43%; the US average was 76.31%.

​Vermont Business Magazine Funding is now available for Brattleboro-area projects and organizations through the Crosby-Gannett Fund and the Dunham-Mason Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation. The two funds were established at the Foundation in 2009. The purpose of both funds is to support endeavors that contribute to the betterment and vitality of the Brattleboro area.

Vermont Business Magazine On March 5th, Burlington residents once again voted to support students and schools. The Burlington School District’s proposed 2019-2020 budget request passed with nearly 70 percent of the vote on Town Meeting Day.  

Vermont Business Magazine National Life Group announced today the introduction of TotalSecure, a new, flexible whole life insurance product that offers more living benefit options than any other life insurer.

by Rebecca Holcombe Vermont now spends tens of millions more dollars on child care and prekindergarten markets than it did only three or four years ago. Yet, a Joint Fiscal Office (JFO) study recently found Vermont now has about 1,693 fewer regulated child care spots than we did in 2015—a 25% decline. Before spending more public money on the early care and learning market, Vermont needs to ask: Are we managing this market the right way?

Many Vermonters responded to JFO’s recent report on child care capacity by concluding we have a crisis. While child care centers and school programs held their own in the market, Vermont had almost 27 percent fewer regulated home-based child cares in 2018 than in 2015. Overall, home-based programs now have about 25 percent fewer infant and toddler spots.

Vermont Business Magazine S.J. Cahill is the winner of the 2019 Vermont Writers’ Prize for his short story “Family Ground,” which explores the moral dilemma of the Vietnam War and its impact on a Vermont community.

By Greg Marchildon, State Director, AARP Vermont There was a time when access to the internet was a luxury and even a novelty.  Those days are long gone. Today, fast, reliable and affordable access to the internet is as much a necessity as electricity.

Vermont Business Magazine Elderwood, a leading provider of senior care in the Northeast has acquired Starr Farm Nursing Center in Burlington. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Elderwood began serving the Burlington community on December 17, 2018, and has renamed the facility Elderwood at Burlington. Elderwood at Burlington has a 150-bed capacity, serving both skilled nursing and short-term subacute rehabilitation patients.

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Small Business Development Center (VtSBDC) would like to announce an upcoming workshop for those thinking about starting their own business.

Vermont Business Magazine Eleven years ago, the Epic Pass transformed the ski industry by offering guests unlimited skiing at the best resorts in the world, for a previously unheard of low price, making skiing and riding more accessible and affordable. Today, with the introduction of "Epic for Everyone," Vail Resorts continues that history of innovation by offering the same incredible flexibility and value to all skiers and riders, whether they want to ski or ride just one day – or every day – of the season, including at local resorts Stowe, Okemo and Sunapee (NH).