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Ranking Member Elijah E Cummings sent a letter yesterday to Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that the Committee invite Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin to testify at today's congressionial hearing entitled ‘State and Municipal Debt: Tough Choices Ahead.’
Cummings, as the highest ranking Democrat on the committee said:
Michael Smith, whose vision and leadership turned a largely forgotten, bedraggled forest into a 300-acre city park crisscrossed by one of the nation’s top trail systems, received the 2011 CVPS-Zetterstrom Environmental Award today at a Statehouse ceremony.
Peter Shumlin will deliver the commencement address at Green Mountain College's 174th graduation ceremony May 14, and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. The ceremony is at 10 a.m. on the College's Griswold Library lawn.
Vermont Administration Secretary Jeb Spaulding delivered good good news on tax revenues Tuesday as the General Fund and Education Fund both exceed targets for the month of MArch. The Transportation Fund, however, fell below its anticipated mark.
The RE/MAX of New England Housing Report indicates that for March every state in New England experienced an upswing in transactions as home sales increased 37.7 percent across the region. Vermont was the only state to see a year over year increase at 5.4 percent. According to RE/MAX, this bodes well for a strong spring market.
There were 1,194 new regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance last week, an increase of 358 from the week before. Altogether 12,022 new and continuing claims were filed, an increase of 180 from a week ago and 2,450 fewer than a year earlier.
A new study suggests that Vermont shouldn’t worry that higher taxes will drive people away, but how it spends its tax revenue appears to affect the likelihood that people will move here. Employment opportunities, a low incidence of crime, and affordable housing go hand in hand with greater inward migration.
by Anne Galloway vtdigger.org April 12, 2011 Four days after congressional leaders struck a budget deal with President Barack Obama, U.S. Senate and House staffers are scrambling to figure out how the continuing resolution target of $38.5 billion in reductions to fiscal year 2011 federal spending will impact the states.
Sovernet Communications announced today that it has added five (5) new staff members to support construction and deployment of its new middle-mile fiber optic project known as Vermont FiberConnect. The new positions have been added across a number of functions at Sovernet including Project Management, Engineering, Accounting, Business Development and Marketing.
In an effort to ensure an even closer working relationship between the physicians and the St Alban's hospital, Dr Lowrey Sullivan has accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer on Northwestern Medical Center’s Leadership Team. He will begin his new part-time role at the hospital on or about June 1.
Vermont was one of six states that reported that more than half of released offenders returned to state custody within three years in 2004-2007.
A competition, called the townhouse and Apartment Electricity Competition, orchestrated by Saint Michael's College Sustainability Coordinator Heather Ellis, has students living in the townhouse-style residence halls competing to lower electricity usage, while learning about cost savings.