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US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today introduced The Emergency Deficit Reduction Act that would establish a surtax on millionaires and eliminate tax breaks for big oil and gas companies.
The Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Southern Vermont has announced the winners of their 12th Annual Excellence in Housing Awards. These awards recognize the outstanding artistry and craftsmanship of members. They were presented at a banquet held at Franklin Conference Center in Rutland on February 23, 2011.
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Green Mountain Power is reporting today that its Searsburg wind power facility had its most productive year on record in 2010, thanks to weather conditions and strong operating performance.
"In its 13 years of continuous operation, the Searsburg facility has demonstrated that wind power works in Vermont," said Mary Powell, president and CEO of Green Mountain Power.
Vermont will receive approximately $1.4 million as part of a settlement with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, and AstraZeneca LP, Attorney General William H. Sorrell announced today. The total settlement of $68.5 million, paid to thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia, is the largest payment ever for a multistate drug consumer protection settlement.
The Vermont Department of Labor announced today the seasonally adjusted statewide unemployment rate for January 2011 was 5.7 percent. This reported level resumes the downward trend established through much of 2010. It is a decrease of one tenth of a percentage point from December 2010 and a decrease of a full percentage point from January 2010.
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX), the world’s premier roaster, marketer and retailer of specialty coffees, and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc (NasdaqGS: GMCR ), a leader in specialty coffee and single-serve brewing systems, today announced a strategic relationship for the manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sale of Starbucks and Tazo tea branded K-Cup portion packs for use in GMC
A new fund, organized by Pete’s Greens and the Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE), aimed to help Vermont agricultural organizations, is on the fast track to becoming a reality. Pete Johnson, owner of Pete’s Greens, and Monty Fischer, Executive Director of CAE met recently to outline the details to create the Vermont Farm Fund.
A team from the International Rhino Foundation tends to a black rhino in Zimbabwe. The IRF is one of four recipients of an Orvis Commitment to Protect Nature Grant for 2011. The Orvis CompanyThe Orvis Company announced today the winners of its Commitment to Protect Nature Grants for 2011. Every year, Orvis reviews projects submitted from around the world.
Two thirds of states have cut mental health care in the last three years’even though need has increased because of the nation's economic distress and troops returning home from war, according to a report released today by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
DuBois & King, Inc., consulting engineers announced the opening of their new Springfield, Vermont office. The firm also provides professional engineering services from offices in Williston and Randolph, Vermont and Bedford, New Hampshire.
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products was awarded an $11.2 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy for the continued production of MK82 directors and MK200 director controllers for Aegis Combat System illuminators. General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).
There were 737 new regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance last week, a decrease of 491 from the week before, as claims fell following a recent increase. Altogether 12,591 new and continuing claims were filed, a decrease of 230 from a week ago and 2,872 fewer than a year earlier.