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Vermont Business Magazine Bernie Sanders on Saturday congratulated Hillary Clinton on her victory in Nevada’s closely-contested caucuses and looked ahead to carrying his campaign for the White House to primaries and caucuses across the country.

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Gen Z's Changing World and 2025 Insights for Marketers

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by Joan Goldstein The objective? Jobs — good paying, clean jobs to help fuel economic growth. States throughout the country engage in fierce competition for job creators and economy builders. They throw huge sums of money at the problem hoping to attract a big company. Vermont takes a very different approach.

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Vermont Business Magazine On March 1, 2016, New England Federal Credit Union (NEFCU) will begin accepting applications for its 2016 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Scholarships. Three scholarships of $3,000 each will be awarded.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Peace Corps has announced that the University of Vermont ranked No. 6 among medium-sized schools on the agency’s 2016 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list.

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Vermont Business Magazine With 10 graduates currently volunteering worldwide, Saint Michael’s College in Colchester ranked No. 11 among small schools on the Peace Corps’ 2016 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list, the agency announced Thursday.

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by Tera Dacek The craft beer industry is a breeding ground for communities. Whether it is a random Wednesday night at your local brewery with a group of friends, a yoga class, new release or a festival, breweries have the habit of bringing people together. So, it’s really no surprise that the digital landscape mimics what happens at the brewery.

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Vermont Business Magazine Mayor Miro Weinberger and Vermont Land Trust President Gil Livingston today announced the creation of a new Burlington City park, following the February 18, 2016, purchase by the City and VLT of 12 acres of land for $2 million from developer Burlington College Community Housing, through its principal, Eric Farrell.

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Vermont Business Magazine Today Lieutenant Governor Phil Scott, House Minority Leader Don Turner (R-Milton), Senate Minority Leader Joe Benning (R-Caledonia) and fellow legislators called for the Green Mountain Care Board to conduct an independent assessment of Vermont Health Connect.

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Vermont Business Magazine The top law enforcement officer in Vermont has joined two of his predecessors in supporting marijuana legalization. Attorney General Bill Sorrell was joined by former Vermont Attorneys General Kimberly B Cheney and M Jerome Diamond in support of S241, the marijuana legalization bill, in a letter to the General Assembly Thursday.

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Vermont State Police On Tuesday, the Vermont Drug Task Force, along with its federal and local partners, conducted arrest operations in southwestern Vermont.  As a result, nineteen (19) defendants have been arrested and cited to appear in Bennington or Rutland Superior Court facing a variety of state level criminal charges.

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Lottery, in a partnership with the Vermont Agency of Education, announces the third Educate / Innovate Grant Program to provide a competitive grant to K-12 public schools in the form of a cart of computing devices. The twice annual program provides one set of 20 devices and a mobile cart to one awardee school.