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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Labor (VDOL) is hosting a Job Fair with 90 Vermont businesses on Tuesday from 10 AM to 5:30 PM at the Sheraton Inn & Conference Center on Williston Road in South Burlington. More than 90 employers will have booths and will meet and greet the job seekers who attend.
by Erin Mansfield vtdigger.org GlobalFoundries, the company that acquired IBM’s Essex Junction plant on July 1, said Friday it is offering retirement incentives to an undetermined number of employees across the company. The buyouts were first reported by the Albany Business Review.
by Beth Fastiggi Having spent nearly 30 years as part of the telecommunications industry in New England, one thing is clear to me: the industry has changed tremendously and now there is vigorous competition and more customer choice than ever before. This is good for consumers here and elsewhere.
by Erin Mansfield vtdigger.org Doctors are buried in paperwork, overburdened by student loans, worried about patients finding doctors and concerned about the shortfalls of the state’s mental health system.
Vermont Business Magazine After completing its review of Vermont’s hospitals’ budget requests for fiscal year 2016, the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) has set the total fiscal year 2016 budget increase for Vermont’s hospital system at 3.5%, including 0.5% that qualifies as investments in health reform.
by Bea Grause Vermont’s regulators have just about finished their annual review and approval of hospital budgets, so naturally there has been a lot of dialogue about the work hospitals are doing to create a system where everyone gets care they can afford, from the hospital and doctor of their choice. Vermont’s hospitals are doing what Vermonters have asked them to do.
by Brian Dubie In 2009, when I was serving as lieutenant governor, I was invited to the Bolton Valley Ski Area resort to take part in the commissioning of a 100 kw wind turbine manufactured by Vermont workers in Barre. Its blade height was a very modest 120 feet, and the tower was on a scale to fit in with the ski resort profile.
From Governor Shumlin's Office In keeping with the Presidential Proclamation, Governor Peter Shumlin has ordered flags at all state buildings and facilities be lowered to half-staff on September 11, 2015, in observance of Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance.
Where the flags will be lowered:
by Tom Pelham Vermonters and taxpayers will be stunned by Act 46 come the fiscal 2017 school budget cycle that starts in earnest this Fall. Act 46 is a poorly constructed legislative initiative of state enforced school consolidation with debilitating effects on effectively managed school districts, both large and small, and resulting in increases in property taxes statewide.
Vermont Business Magazine The Burlington Electric Department (BED) and Vermont Gas Systems announced today that their popular Energy Champ Challenge program, aimed at increasing energy efficiency in some of Burlington’s biggest residential rental units, has reached its goal of 50 scheduled energy audits.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) has announced the distribution of $500,000 in patronage capital funds to member-owners in 2015. Patronage capital is each member’s share of remaining funds after the cooperative utility pays its operating expenses. It is the member’s equity in the co-op and one of the benefits of being a member-owner.