Senator Patrick Leahy Today the Senate begins consideration of the Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related agencies “Minibus” appropriations bill.  This will be the third appropriations package brought to the Senate floor this year, and once we complete action, the Senate will have passed nine out of the 12 committee-reported appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2019. 

Vermont Business Magazine At about 3:30 am Sunday, August 19, 2018, the Vermont State Police were notified of a shooting at a home on South Hill Road in the town of Goshen. The investigation determined that Jeffery Young engaged in a verbal argument with his son, Nicholas Young through a locked/closed door. During the argument, Jeffery discharged a handgun multiple times through the same closed door striking Nicholas. While bystanders were attempting to render assistance to the victim, additional shots were fired from inside the residence.  

Public Assets Institute Vermont lost 2,200 jobs in July, although it still had 5,000 more jobs than before the recession. The average number of nonfarm payroll jobs in 2017 was 1.8 percent higher than in 2007, the previous peak, and only 4 percent higher than the peak before the 2001 recession. Vermont’s pace of recovery has been slower than the nation’s as a whole since the start of the century and slower than recoveries in the 1980s and 1990s.

Vermont Business Magazine Global plastic and silicone injection molder and contract manufacturer GW Plastics, based in Bethel, has won the 2018 Vermont Business Growth Award and two workforce development training grants worth over $80,000.

Vermont Business Magazine Except for texting and driving, today's college students are engaging in fewer risky behaviors. Fuse, the independent teen and young adult marketing agency based in Burlington, is often asked about trends that brands might capitalize on to reach this specific demographic. Our agency believes that Gen Z’s behaviors are more important than trends, because they are stable, often lasting for a decade or more. A brand can build a strategy around long-term behaviors, where doing so around a trend is precarious. And we are fortunate to be living at a time when Gen Z behavior is actually more fascinating than any short-term trend.