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According to Green Mountain College's official history, students living in the school's original academy building in 1837 were warmed by wood-burning stoves. Each student was responsible for toting wood up the stairs to his room in the evening, and each was required to keep a pail of sand nearby in the event of a fire.
Vermont Governor Jim Douglas, chairman of the National Governors Association, testified today before the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing, titled State Taxation: The Impact of Congressional Legislation on State and Local Government Revenues, focused on the impact of federal actions on state and local taxing and spending decisions.
On today’s income tax filing deadline, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said federal taxes are down for most middle-class Vermonters and Americans but much more needs to be done to create a fair and equitable tax system.
US News & World Report again has ranked Vermont Law School’s environmental law program as the best in the nation. The 2011 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools appears on USNews.com on Thursday, April 15, and on newsstands on Tuesday, April 27.
Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) today reported that it anticipates first quarter results to be down 7.5 percent from the same period last year, due primarily to costs associated with dropping its plan to spinoff Vermont Yankee and five other of its merchant nuclear power plants into a separate company called Enexus. Merchant plants are not utility owned.
Middlebury College, the leader in foreign language teaching among the nation’s higher education institutions, and K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN), a technology-based education company and national leader in online learning, have announced an agreement to form a new venture that will create innovative, high-quality online language programs for pre-college students.
Primary care education at the University of Vermont College of Medicine has been ranked fourth in the nation among 146 accredited U.S. medical and osteopathic schools, according to US News & World Report's 2011 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools," on newsstands April 20.
Senators from two leading dairy states – Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) – are heading a new effort to urge USDA actions to ease the dairy price crisis that continues to squeeze the nation’s dairy farmers.
(By Ed Barna, Vermont Business Magazine. 4.14.2010.) With the construction industry hit harder than most by the Great Recession and its “jobless recovery,” issues surrounding the anticipated $75 million reconstruction of the Champlain Bridge linking Vermont with New York, have had interested parties scrapping like drought-stricken animals at a waterhole.
The Travel Channel is scheduled to cover the May 16, Williston, Vermont, kick-off of the international adventure Spartan Race Series (www.spartanrace.com) that will feed qualifiers into the now-infamous Death Race (www.peakraces.com) held annually in Pittsfield, VT.
In honor of the original Boston Cream Pie, created in 1855 at the former Parker House Hotel in Boston, Ben & Jerry s announces its newest creation to Bostonians and pie lovers nationwide. Boston Cream Pie is a decadent mix of Boston Cream Pie ice cream with yellow cake pieces, fudge flakes and swirls of pastry cream. It s a flavor worthy of a horse ride to Lexington!
(Vermont Business Magazine) The State of Washington has filed suit against the federal government for dropping its plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The Nevada site was intended to house spent fuel from all the nuclear power plants in the United States, including Vermont Yankee.