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Erin Mansfield vtdigger.org Vermont’s senior senator is hoping the state will lead the way in how companies protect themselves from cyberterrorism. US Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT, told a convention of 1,000 captive insurance industry executives Wednesday that he is working with U.S. Sen.

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Vermont Business Magazine Nearly sixty Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont (BCBSVT) employees participated in the 10th Annual Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival, hosted by Dragonheart Vermont, on Sunday, August 2nd, 2015. BCBSVT has sponsored the festival for many years, as well as bringing two teams to compete, have fun and support a good cause.

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Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General William H Sorrell, the Department of Public Service, and two utilities filed a Petition yesterday in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit challenging a decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

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Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Labor (VDOL) announces the start of the fall semester plumbing and electrical apprenticeship classes. The Vermont DOL provides a grant to Vermont Technical College for the related classroom instruction, test preparation and other activities related to this program.

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Vermont Business Magazine NPI, a Technology Management company in South Burlington, has complteed a technology project for YWCA of Vermont and Camp Hochelaga. The office in Essex Junction received an upgrade of their wireless capabilities as well as improvements in their network performance; the Camp’s wireless was also upgraded.

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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1 Administrator Curt Spalding, standing today on the shores of Lake Champlain at North Beach, shared the formal Plan to reduce phosphorous runoff into Lake Champlain and the agreed upon “Total Maximum Daily Load” (TMDL) that will place a cap on the maximum amount of phos

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Vermont Business Magazine The Green Mountain Care Board on Thursday announced its decisions on 2016 rate increase requests for health insurance plans offered on Vermont Health Connect (VHC), Vermont’s online health benefit exchange.

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Vermont Business Magazine Burlington Electric Department and Green Mountain Power today are warning customers about an ongoing bill payment phone scam that threatens customers with disconnection if they do not pay immediately.

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by Seven Days Nearly 9,000 Vermonters weighed in on the state’s 2015 “best of Vermont” awards, with a whopping 590,000-plus individual votes in 171 categories.

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Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General William H Sorrell joined with 16 other states and cities in announcing their intention to oppose a request that would stay EPA’s Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan is a result of a decade-long effort by states to require mandatory cuts in emissions of climate change pollution from power plants – the single largest U.S.

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Vermont Business Magazine Marketers, including those focused on Gen Z and Millennials, routinely use demographic analysis to help craft a brand's message, positioning and marketing.

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Vermont Business Magzine Vermont Student Assistance Corp today announced it has selected Intuition College Savings Solutions to manage the Vermont Higher Education Investment Plan, the state’s 529 college savings plan.