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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos will announce on tuesday the launch of a new searchable database of Vermont elections results. The new site makes it easier to find results by year, office, or candidate and continues the efforts of Secretary Condos to make information more accessible for Vermonters. Press conference Tuesday at 1 pm.
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Vermont Business Magazine Journals of the House and Senate from Friday, April 8, 2016. The Legislature will reconvene Tuesday April 12.
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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont SBA is working with a team in support of the Kauffman Foundation’s engagement with the City of Burlington to improve conditions for entrepreneurs. Through Kauffman, a research survey is being launched to map Vermont’s business spinoff history. VT SBA is trying to get the word out about the survey so that those business owners that started a spinoff will take the survey. In other words, the survey attempts to find those entrepreneurs who once worked for another company. Examples include IDX, IBM, Ben & Jerry’s, Magic Hat, JDK, Gardener’s Supply, etc. The more spinoffs SBA can record, the better the research will be – it is a snowball effect survey. It relies on businesspeople to reach out to those they know who fit the spinoff definition and get them to also take the survey. The survey is live now and the link is below.
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by Mickey Wiles My name is Mickey Wiles and I am the CFO of Burlington Labs, where I have been given a second chance after being convicted of a felony. As a person who has improved his own life through long-term recovery, I understand the power of second chances. Returning to a position such as CFO was not a path that I ever thought I would travel again.
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Vermont Business Magazine The State of Vermont is set to be the first in the nation to announce state-sponsored use of groundbreaking health information technology, PatientPing – taking historic action in remedying the trillion-dollar deficit caused partly by the fragmentation of the American health care system. On Tuesday, April 12, at Vermont Blueprint for Health 2016 in Burlington, PatientPing Founder & CEO Jay Desai, state officials and health care representatives will publicly announce the adoption of PatientPing across in-state health care providers to enhance medical information transparency between once disconnected health care providers.
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Vermont Business Magazine Sodexo, which provides food service to institutional clients including the University of Vermont and nine other colleges here, spent $3.22 million with Vermont food purveyors for its Vermont clients last year. This is the result of the first full year for Vermont First, a program the company launched in 2014 with the governor and state officials to increase the amount of local food purchased by Sodexo.
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Vermont Business Magazine Seventh Generation, a leading household and personal care products company based in Burlington, has launched its largest integrated marketing campaign ever. Titled "Come Clean", and featuring Maya Rudolph -- mother of four, SNL alum, actress, comedienne and long-time Seventh Generation devotee -- this one-of-a-kind campaign focuses on redefining what "clean" really means to consumers in order to help build healthy homes across the country.
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Vermont Business Magazine Jeff Schulman '89, a member of the University of Vermont athletic department's central administration for more than two decades and a former Catamount student-athlete, has been named the University's next Director of Athletics. University President Tom Sullivan made the announcement on Wednesday afternoon at Patrick Gym.
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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Green Building Network (VGBN) recognized the most energy efficient buildings in Vermont at the Vermont Green Building Gala, held at Main Street Landing on March 31, 2016. VGBN’s Vermont’s Greenest Building Awards are a statewide competition that honors residential and commercial buildings that meet the highest standard of demonstrated building energy performance.
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Vermont Business Magazine Maybe because so many people travel to get married here, but the average cost of a wedding in Vermont is not cheap: $37,880, more than $5,000 above the national average. Vermont also has the second highest use of wedding registeries.
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Vermont Business Magazine This summer, students are invited to immerse themselves in food systems programming at eight Vermont higher education colleges and universities with the Vermont Food Systems Summer Study Tour. An initiative of the Vermont Food Systems Higher Education Consortium (VHEFSC), the Summer Study Tour offers a “taste of Vermont” – for the intellect.
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Vermont Business Magazine Representatives from Long Trail Brewing Company, Farrell Distributing, and Hannaford Supermarkets visited the Vermont Foodbank with a check for $18,566, monies raised from a recent promotion in Hannaford stores throughout New England. During November and December 2015, Long Trail Brewing Company donated $1 for every case of Long Trail sold at Hannaford Supermarkets.