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Attorney General William H. Sorrell is urgently warning Vermonters to be suspicious of any request to send money by wire transfer. Vermonters are currently being targeted for a variety of financial frauds including bogus sweepstakes and lotteries, phony rentals, and calls and emails from scammers posing as friends or relatives.
SKI Magazine released results from its 2011 Reader Resort Survey naming Sugarbush Resort as the #1 resort in the east for terrain variety. Sugarbush came out on top in a category in which the resort is committed to having a stronghold.
Layoffs - Budget Cuts - Downsizing.
Every day there seems to be another news story covering the fallout from the current economic downturn.
Governor Jim Douglas yesterday departed for Japan on the first leg of a 12-day EB-5 trade mission to Asia to help Vermont employers attract foreign investment and create jobs. The EB-5 program is a federal investment program run by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Larry Sudbay, President and Chief Executive Officer of SymQuest Group, Inc, announced today that SymQuest’s fifteenth annual golf tournament raised $5,000 for Spectrum Youth and Family Services. The tournament was held at the Vermont National Country Club, South Burlington, Vermont, on Monday, October 4.
Two Vermont companies are leading a surge in national sales of "fair trade" consumer products. Fair trade generally refers to agricultural products from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America that ensures that farmers receive market value for their products and social justice for themselves.
The Vermont Attorney General’s Office has concluded its investigation of a complaint that the Republican Governors Association (“RGA”) and the Friends of Brian Dubie campaign coordinated on campaign expenditures in connection with a video called Vision for Vermont. The Office conveyed its conclusions to the interested parties by letter today.
The Vermont Public Service Board has found that Burlington Telecom is in "wanton" violation of its Certificate of Public Good as related to it borrowing $16.9 million from the City of Burlington and not paying it back, and for its failure to buildout the network by 2008. BT was challenged by the Department of Public Service, which acts on behalf of consumers, and was joined by Comcast.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Wednesday announced that Vermont’s Boys and Girls Clubs have been awarded more than $1 million by the US Department of Justice to help fund activities and programs administered by the Clubs.
Five of Vermont’s health care associations today released a joint report outlining their health care reform guiding principles and recommendations for policy makers. This release coincides with the most recent update to the Vermont Health Care Commission by Dr.
For the week of October 9, 2010, there were 840 new regular benefit claims for Unemployment Insurance, an increase of 162 from the week before. Altogether 7,460 new and continuing claims were filed, an increase of 198 from a week ago and 1,872 fewer than a year earlier.
Vermont has been ranked fifth among states in energy efficiency efforts. Even as Congress failed to take major action on climate and energy legislation in 2010, states across the United States achieved major new strides in energy efficiency, according to the 2010State Energy Efficiency Scorecard from the nonprofit and independent American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).