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by Brad Ferland I attended the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (NDCAP) meeting on Thursday, May 25 in Brattleboro. During and after the meeting, I was too pre-occupied with preparation, speaking, and driving three hours home to St Albans to process much about the meeting. Looking back, though, I see the meeting as extremely valuable.
Vermont Business Magazine NicolasFabien-Ouellet, a Master’s degree student in UVM’s Food Systems Graduate Program, has been all over the news recently, both in his native Canada and in the US. The cause of the media’s feeding frenzy?
Vermont Business Magazine On Friday a new type of home was delivered to the North Avenue Co-op, a resident-owned manufactured home community in Burlington. An alternative to manufactured housing, this modular home came from the VERMOD factory in Wilder, VT, where it was designed and built for maximum energy efficiency, affordability, durability, and health.
Vermont Business Magazine Weekly unemployment claims fell again last week to just over 300, which is low even for the typically low summer-time number. There still could be some volatility coming soon after school lets out. Claims spiked to over 1,100 six weeks ago and then again two weeks ago before falling steeply.
Vermont Business Magazine Known for offering wages and benefits that are higher than the national average for the retail industry, discount supermarket ALDI will host a hiring event for its stores in the southwest Vermont area onSaturday, June 10, it announced in press release.
Vermont Business Magazine Country Home Products, Inchas notified the state it will close its facility in Winooski byDecember 31, 2017, and will lay off 67 employees. Country Home Products manufactures, and direct-sells its own line of DR Power Equipment property-care machines, including mowers, trimmers, log splitters and cordless lawn mowers.
Vermont Business Magazine Following is the comment of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Attorney General Sessions’ scheduled testimony next week, on Tuesday, before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science. Leahy is the Vice Chairman of the Appropriations Committee and a leading member of the Judiciary Committee.
Vermont Business Magazine The law firm Dunkiel Saunders of Burlington announced Thursday that Elizabeth Miller has joined the firm as a partner. Miller served as Chief of Staff to former Governor Peter Shumlin and as Commissioner of the Vermont Public Service Department, where she led the state’s energy and telecommunications policy.
Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) issued the following statement Thursday after James Comey, the former FBI director, told the Senate Intelligence Committee he was fired by President Donald Trump over an investigation into Russian interference in last year’s presidential election.
Vermont Business Magazine Joined by legislative leaders at the Downtown and Historic Preservation Conference, Governor Phil Scott signed S135 into law Thursday to expedite state permitting for housing and increase public investment in buildings and infrastructure in state-designated centers, among other pro-growth initiatives.
Vermont Business MagazineIn order to afford a modest, two-bedroom apartment at the Fair Market Rent in Vermont, renters need to earn$21.90 an hour, or$45,545.
Vermont Business Magazine ALEC-Laffer “Rich States' Poor States” was released earlier this spring with Vermont ranked in its usual spot: Next to dead last. In the 10 years of the ranking, Vermont has finished in the penultimately worst position every year but one and New York has finished last in every year but one, 2013, when the two states briefly switched positions.