The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says the final tally will be around 18,000 deer, the second highest total since 2000. Those deer will provide approximately 3.6 million servings of local, nutritious venison.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Leahy: Today’s decisive and bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives to impeach President Trump was nothing less than a vote to preserve our democracy. President Trump has not simply failed to uphold his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, which itself would be sufficient to warrant his impeachment and removal. He has emerged as the greatest threat to the Constitution and to American democracy in a generation.

Vermont Business Magazine Legislation led in the Senate by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Senator Steve Daines (R-Montana) that promotes lower health insurance costs to consumers by increasing transparency and enhancing consumer protections in the health insurance industry was signed into law Wednesday by the President. The “Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act” will ensure that health insurance issuers are subject to the same federal antitrust laws prohibiting unfair trade practices, such as price fixing and collusion, as virtually every other industry in our economy.

Department of Public Safety Late last evening, prior to the anticipated conclusion of the investigation into his conduct related to the Capitol insurrection, Lucas Hall resigned his position. His unconditional resignation was immediately accepted. The details of the investigation will be forwarded to the Vermont Criminal Justice Council pursuant to Act 56 for consideration of sanctions, including decertification.

Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power (GMP) is alerting customers about a surge in scam calls this morning. The scammers claim to be from GMP, demand immediate payment and threaten to cut off power if not paid right away. GMP says it would never do that, and you hang up - it is a scam. GMP customers started alerting the company this morning about the calls.