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Vermont Business Magazine In a letter sent to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday, Attorney General Donovan, and a bi-partisan group of 30 Attorneys General are urging the federal government to adopt rules that would allow telephone providers to block illegal robocalls.
by Senator Bernard Sanders The Trump-Ryan-McConnell "health care" bill currently being pushed by Republicans in Washington is one of the worst pieces of legislation to ever pass the US House of Representatives in the modern history of our country.
Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont Health Network has proposed an increase in commercial insurance rates of 0.72 percent for Fiscal Year 2018, following a series of historically low requests in recent years made jointly by the UVM Medical Center and Central Vermont Medical Center.
Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott, Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman PEter Welch joined employees of Revision Military in Newport celebrating its five-year contract to provide up to 293,870 helmets to the US Army for a total value of $98 million.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan joined five other state Attorneys General seeking to intervene in a lawsuit to force federal action on a toxic pesticide, Chlorpyrifos.
Vermont Business MagazineVermont PBS will host a special international edition of “Vermont This Week.” Premiering Friday, July 7 at 7:30 pm, the new episode will be originate in Montreal at the studios of the CTV and will zero in on the hot-button cross-border issues facing Canada and Vermont.
Vermont Business MagazineApplications are now being accepted for the Governor’s Award for Business Excellence in Supporting Mature Workers. Vermont’s Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) and the Department of Labor (DOL) are co-sponsoring the award and encourage any employer to consider applying for the statewide recognition.
Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General TJDonovan today joined a coalition of 19 states in suing the USDepartment of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos for abandoning critical federal protections that were set to go into effect on July 1, 2017.
Vermont Business Magazine Saint Michael’s College and Peace Corps on July 5 announced the launch of a new Paul D. Coverdell Fellows program housed in the College’s Applied Linguistics Department. The program offers graduate school scholarships to returned Peace Corps volunteers pursuing a Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Vermont Business Magazine National Grid and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 104 today announced agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of the Granite State Power Link (GSPL), an electric transmission project that would bring up to 1,200 megawatts of clean energy from Canada to the New England power grid.
Vermont Business MagazineVermont Emergency Management (VEM) Director Erica Bornemann today asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to conduct a preliminary damage assessment (PDA) in five Vermont counties impacted by severe storms from June 29-July 2.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Gas customers continue to praise the company’s quality of service, according to the 2017 Vermont Gas Annual Customer Satisfaction Survey. More than 93% of Vermont Gas customers rated the quality of service as good to excellent.