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Vermont Business Magazine The Burlington Electric Department and Vermont Gas Systems today launched a new residential energy efficiency program that challenges and encourages homeowners and renters in Vermont’s largest city to take power over their energy use.

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Vermont Business MagazineVermonters who were deceived into sending payments to scammers using Western Union’s wire transfer service may be entitled to compensation in a multi-statesettlementreached by Attorney General TJDonovan, 48 other states, the District of Columbia, and Western Union.

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Vermont Business Magazine Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said Tuesday he will soon introduce legislation to lower prescription drug prices and hoped that President Donald Trump would support the effort. Sanders and Representative Elijah E Cummings (D-MD) are drafting legislation to significantly bring down drug prices in the United States.

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Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont Medical Center has opened a Genomic Medicine laboratory to expand its use of advanced genetic testing that doctors can use to develop treatments tailored to individual patients.

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Vermont Business Magazine A bipartisan coalition of 71 members of the House of Representatives, including Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vermont) sent a letter to President Donald Trump today urging him to include investments in rural broadband connectivity in his forthcoming infrastructure proposal.

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Vermont Business Magazine Today, the House passed HR9, a resolution to commemorate the 44th anniversary of RoevWade and the 52nd anniversary of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, on a vote of 103-31.The resolution urges Congress and state legislatures to preserve the rights protected in Roe vWade and continue to ensure access to essential health care services for Vermo

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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott on Monday announced a series of steps his Administration is taking to protect the rights of all Vermonters, following executive orders from President Trump relating to immigration and refugee resettlement.

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Vermont Business MagazineAARP today launched a comprehensive campaign to protect Medicare in the face of proposals by some in Congress that it says would hurt hardworking Vermonters who have paid into the program their entire working lives.Congressional proposals to change Medicare into a voucher system would dramatically increase health care costs and risks for both current an

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Vermont Business MagazineThe Annual Vermont Farm Show, a great Vermont tradition, returns to the Champlain Valley Expo Center January 31,February 1and 2. Now in its 87thyear, the show celebrates the heritage of Vermont farming, while continuing to evolve and grow with our agricultural community.

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Vermont Business MagazineThe American Lung Association’s“State of Tobacco Control” reporthas found that in 2016

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Vermont Business Magazine Keeping mothers and babies safe in the midst of the opioid crisis in northern New England is the goal of a new online toolkit being tested in eight regional hospitals.The new collaborative program also encourages smoking cessation among this patient population in year two of a three-year, $127,000 grant that Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Perinatal Addiction Tr

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Attorney General Donovan joined 16 other Attorneys General to stand up for individual freedoms and to protect the rights of all Vermonters and Americans.