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by Jack Hoffman Public Assets Institute The governor’s office and the Legislature agreed in mid-August on how to close a $12.6 million budget gap that came to light after the Legislature adjourned its 2017 session.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont PBS is honoring National Recovery Month this September by bringing two poignant local films by Bess O’Brien to air: the award-winning The Hungry Heart, which looks at the often-hidden world of prescription drug abuse through pediatrician Dr.

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Vermont Business MagazineNational Life Group and its employees have mobilized this week to offer assistance to the people of southeast Texas in the midst of the ongoing floods caused by Hurricane Harvey.National Life is based in Montpelier and has a long-establishedoffice in Texas.

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Vermont Business Magazine Marathon Health, LLC, a Winooski-based provider of onsite health centers that enable employers to optimize the health of their workforce and business, today announced the addition of behavioral health counseling to its suite of services.

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Vermont Business Magazine This past weekend, Governor Phil Scott attended the 41st Annual Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG/ECP), an inter-regional, bi-national, trans-border organization between the six New England states and the five eastern Canadian provinces.

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Vermont Business Magazine Mamava, the Burlington-based expert in designs for mamas on the go, creator of the Mamava Lactation Suite for nursing and pumping, has installed banners in the South End celebratingNational Breastfeeding Month.

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Vermont Buisness Magazine The University of Vermont today announced the launch of its new Healthcare Management and Leadership Professional Certificate Program, with the first session of the five-seminar series taking place this fall.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Foodbank has released The State of Senior Hunger in America in 2015, a study about food insecurity among seniors in the US produced by Feeding America and released in partnership with the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH).

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Vermont Business MagaineThe FDA is right – when it comes to disease culprits, cigarette smoking tops the list. While recognized as the number-one cause of preventable disease and death, it’s an incredibly tough habit to break due to the addictiveness of nicotine.

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Vermont Business Magazine Community Health Centers in Vermont were recently recognized with Quality Awards from U.S.

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today issued the following statement: “Six years ago, Vermont faced one of its most impactful natural disasters when Tropical Storm Irene caused major flooding across the state.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Agency of Natural Resources announced today that Ruby Construction, Inc, former owner of the hilltop property containing the Mammoth Quarry in the Town of Wells, and the company’s lessee Royal Harrison, were jointly held responsible for a massive discharge of water and sediment into Lake St Catherine.