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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Public Service in a statement released today has called on the Public Service Board to evaluate existing forms of utility regulation in light of emerging trends in the energy and utility sectors.
Vermont Business Magazine Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, political commentator, and former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, will deliver the 2017 Middlebury College commencement address on Sunday, May 28.
Vermont Business MagazineThe other snowshoe has dropped in a flurry of ski area mergers and acquisitions that seeks to merge operations in the East and West.Aspen Skiing Company, LLCannounced today that it and an equity partner are buyingIntrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc(NYSE: SNOW),which owns iconic southern Vermont resort Stratton Mountain and northern neighborMont Tremblant in
by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business MagazineCarbon tax legislation isn’t dead, it’s just being reborn in a different form with a different incentive. Vermont Representative and South Burlington School Board Member Martin LaLonde announced a property tax reform and climate action proposal today at the headquarters of Ben & Jerry’s.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont legislators today proposed four tax reforms that they said would: Create jobs and strengthen the Vermont economy; prioritize low- and middle-income Vermonters; and reduce the carbon pollution causing global warming. The bills include proposals to lower the property tax and even eliminate the statewide sales tax.
Vermont Business Magazine TODAY, Monday, April 10, 2017, Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) will kick off a two week statewide tour to hear from Vermonters about the impact of President Trump’s budget on their lives and communities. Throughout the tour, he will hold press conferences, convene roundtables, and conduct a town hall-style meeting.
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by Mike Smith This will be my last column for the Rutland Herald and Times Argus. I am not giving up on writing a weekly column, just changing venues, but this column is neither the time nor the place to talk about that.
Vermont Business MagazineVermont has the fifth highest effective property tax rate in the nation, according to a national survey.ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation's largest fused property database, has released a 2016 property tax analysis for more than 84 million USsingle family homes, which shows that property taxes levied on single family homes in 2016 totaled$277.
Leonine Public AffairsIf there was any doubt the 2017 legislative session is getting close to adjournment, those doubts were put to rest by the end of the week. The committees attempted to deal with bills quickly so any unforeseen contentiousness could be handled in the next two weeks.
by Bill Schubart The Legislature is at an impasse trying to decide whether to establish and adequately fund a statewide ethics commission that has real enforcement capability.
by Rebecca Holcombe, Secretary of Education When the towns of Bethel, Rochester and Royalton started to talk about how to move forward under Act 46, one of the first things they did was ask students what they wanted for their high school experience.