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by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine The Personal Income Tax, the state's most vital revenue source, lagged last month, as it often did last fiscal year. General Fund (GF) revenues totaled $83.94 million for November versus the monthly target of $87.02 million, -$3.08 million or -3.53 percent short. The shortfall was due primarily to the Personal Income Tax category.
Vermont Business Magazine Cathedral Square was recently awarded a $100,000 affordable housing grant through the TD Charitable Foundation’s Housing for Everyone grant competition. The grant will be used to help fund the construction of Elm Place, a new affordable housing community in Milton, Vermont.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Attorney General’s Office entered into an Assurance of Discontinuance with Aspen Marketing Services, LLC after the attorney general’s investigation revealed that over 81,000 letters Aspen sent on be
Vermont Business Magazine With the 2015/2016 ski and snowboard season officially underway, Okemo Mountain Resort continues to receive media accolades from some of the nation’s top publications: SKI, TransWorld SNOWboarding, Outside and others. Okemo was ranked among the East’s Top Ten in SKI Magazine’s highly anticipated Resort Guide issue.
Vermont Business Magazine A new report released today from the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) finds that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps, is highly effective at reducing food insecurity—the government’s measure for whether households lack the resources for consistent and dependable access to food.
Tobacco Companies Spend $5 to Market Products for Every $1 Vermont Spends on Prevention
Vermont Business Magazine Governor Peter Shumlin today announced the completion of a 500 kilowatt solar net metering project at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, the fifth of seven state correctional facilities to be powered by solar.
Vermont Business Magazine David Rees Evans, PhD, was formally inaugurated as the ninth president of Southern Vermont College on Friday, December 4. The ceremony began at 3:30 pm at the Bennington Center for the Arts (BCA) in Bennington and was followed by a reception at the BCA.
by Carolyn Shapiro Veena Graff, MD, loves music; it relaxes her and can boost her mood. The University of Vermont Health Network anesthesiologist – who’s classically trained in piano and violin and is also a DJ – recognized that music could do the same for patients undergoing surgery.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Public Radio is teaming with 105.9FM The Radiator to bring full versions of the VPR-produced concert series ‘Live From The Fort’ to Chittenden County airwaves. The “Live From The Fort” music video series hosts Vermont-based bands in VPR’s Colchester studios.
Vermont Business Magazine Seventy-five years to the day after Bove’s Café opened its doors on Pearl Street in Burlington, Lieutenant Governor Phil Scott joined members of the Bove family at the Italian restaurant as they announced plans to open a new 15,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Milton in 2016.
Vermont Business Magazine Shopping for groceries? Now you can charge your car while you get your dinner fixings at the Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy in Williston, thanks to a partnership between Green Mountain Power, Hannaford Supermarkets and Taft Corners Associates. The charging station is located at the Williston Hannaford, 78 Marshall Avenue.