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For more than 40 years, the Vermont Chamber of Commerce has recognized an outstanding citizen with this prestigious award. Nomination material will be collected through July 30, and a special selection committee will meet soon thereafter to select this year’s recipient.
The State of Vermont will receive over $60,000 under a settlement with an international group of vitamin manufacturers. Attorney General William H. Sorrell, along with 22 states and class action plaintiffs, alleged that vitamin manufacturers engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy contrary to state and federal antitrust laws.
The Teamsters Union supports efforts by the US Senate to crack down on businesses that illegally classify their employees as independent contractors, an egregious practice that companies use to avoid paying millions in state and federal taxes. The Teamsters referenced a new law in Vermont in this regard that requires coverage of workers with workers' compensation insurance.
The Vermont Department of Labor announced today that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for May 2010 was 6.2 percent, down two tenths from the revised April rate and down 1.1 percent from a year ago. Vermont's unemployment rate is fourth lowest in the nation; New Hampshire's (6.4 percent) is fifth lowest. See full US table below.
Representative Peter Welch supported and the House passed legislation late Thursday to increase lending to small businesses and promote job growth.
Green Living: A Practical Journal for Friends of the Environment is the 2010 recipient of the Governor s Award for Environmental Excellence in Education and Outreach. It is the only publication to receive this recognition.
According to Education Week, the leading national publication devoted to covering public education policy, Vermont s high school graduation rate is the second highest in the country, at 82.3 percent for 2007. The highest graduation rate was in New Jersey, at 83.3 percent. The national average was 68.8 percent.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation today issued a reminder for political candidates and their supporters of the need to comply with Vermont’s sign control law when posting campaign signs along public roadways.
A wood pellet plant in Island Pond and a social service organization in Barre were among nine Vermont projects that will share almost $3 million in state grant funds.
On Friday, June 4, Comcast and One Economy were joined by elected officials and community leaders at the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington in Vermont to celebrate the launch of the Comcast Digital Connectors Program.
By James Dwinell, Vermont Business Magazine Rich Tarrant, one of Vermont s wealthiest, is no longer a Vermont resident; he now resides in Florida. Tarrant is best known for the amazing success of IDX, a health care information systems company which he sold in 2006 and now called GE Healthcare and still located in South Burlington.
The 80 seventh- and eighth-grade students on the Navigator team at Edmunds Middle School in Burlington solve problems on one of four touchscreen SMART Boards in math class, measure and record temperature fluctuations with high tech probeware in science, participate in international Skype sessions in social studies via a large computer screen, and use their laptops to do Web-based writing assign