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Vermont Business Magazine The fiscal year 2018 Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill provides $3.171 billion in discretionary budget authority, excluding items pertaining solely to the House, which total an additional $1.319 billion.

Vermont Business Magazine The fiscal year 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Bill provides a total of $53.4 billion in discretionary funding, $3.2 billion less than fiscal year 2017 and $4.4 billion more than the President’s request. The CJS bill invests in a wide range of critical programs that affect the lives of all Americans.

Lake Champlain CommitteeThe information below represents the results from the latest reporting on the cyanobacteria monitoring program through late afternoon of Friday July 21, 2017. Reports will continue to come in so check thedata trackerfor the most up to date conditions.

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today issued a statement in support of proposals to supply the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with 1,000 MW of electricity via the TDI New England Clean Power Link (NECPL). The TDI project would run from the Canadian border, under Lake Champlain for nearly a hundred miles before connecting to the New England grid in Ludlow.

Vermont Business Magazine A gang of investors on motorcycles will ride into Brattleboro onAugust 2to hear business pitches and award prizes. Strolling of the Heifers and Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation invite the public to attend the 2017 FreshTracks Road Pitch at the River Garden on Wednesday, August 2 at 3:00 P.M.

Vermont Business MagazineA bipartisan group of 10 governors, including Vermont Governor Phil Scott, wrote a letter late Wednesdayto Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) uring defeat of the"skinny repeal"of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) on the same day the Senate failed to pass an outright repeal of the ACA, 45-55.

Vermont Business MagazineA Burlington-based energy start-up and a new social impact investment firm has announced a capital investment that will fund operations and growth into the future.Vermont Works Management Company, LLChas become the anchor investor inPacketized Energy’scurrent fund raising effort,according to founders of both firms.

Vermont Business Magazine Seventy-two percent of Vermonters engage in outdoor recreation from skiing to hunting to water sports and more. They spend $5.5 billion, which employs 51,000 and accounts for$1.5 billion in wages and $505 million in state and local tax revenue.

Vermont Business RoundtableThe Roundtable and strategic partnersin the Vermont Talent Pipeline Managementproject (VTPM) are heavily involved in the roll out of two employer collaboratives, one in construction and the other health care, aimed at increasing the availability of and access to skilled workers for the most critical roles in these vital industries.

by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine Better than expected results from the Corporate Income Tax helped push revenues ahead of expectations for both the month of June and the fiscal year as a whole. However, the three largest revenue sources were all down for the period and the year.

Public Assets Institute Washington State is better than Vermont. Well, on one measure anyway: paid family and medical leave. This month Washington became the fifth state to enact a paid family and medical leave program, offering up to 12 weeks of time off to care for a new child or a sick family member, or to take care of personal health issues.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) issued the following statement Tuesday after Senate Republicans voted to begin debate on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act: "The vote today to proceed on the health care bill is a step toward passing the most dangerous and destructive piece of legislation in the modern history of our country.