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Leonine Public Affairs The Senate Appropriations committee approved their version of the FY2024 budget on Friday. The stakes are high as Democrats in the House and Senate work to find a path to achieve their legislative priorities while the standoff with Republican Governor Phil Scott over the budget heats up.

by Abby Carroll, Community News Service Whether towns and cities can charge farms for stormwater utility fees is at the center of a bubbling debate between state agriculture officials and municipal leaders around Vermont. The debate was sparked during discussions of S.115, a miscellaneous agriculture bill that began in the Senate before moving to the House.

Vermont Business Magazine Bill Stenger back home after release from prison; Governor lets budget adjustment bill become law despite reservations; CCS to assume operational control of Green Mountain Support Services; UnitedHealthcare agrees to extend in-network coverage to UVMHN patients for rest of 2023; Hoffer releases audit of VTrans cost and schedule performance for paving;

Vermont Business Magazine Destination Explorer, the latest tool developed by Stowe-based Inntopia, debuts this week as the newest software program they offer to assist Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs), Convention & Visitor Bureaus (CVBs), and lodging suppliers to more closely monitor their collective and individual performance through an interactive dashboard.

Vermont Business Magazine Williston's iSun, Inc (NASDAQ: ISUN), a leading solar energy and clean mobility infrastructure company with 50-years of experience accelerating the adoption of innovative electrical technologies, today announced that it has received a 2.2 MW, $7.7 million contract to provide a solar carport to one of the nation’s largest financial institutions at a sin

Vermont Business Magazine The Literature discipline at Bennington College has received a grant from the Winston Foundation to fund a new class and reading from 2023 Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri. The class, Writing a Life, is offered this term.

Vermont Business Magazine Today, the House gave final approval to S.37, an act relating to access to legally protected health care activity and regulation of health care providers, on a vote of 114 - 24. The bill will legally shield medical practitioners, insurers, and patients providing or receiving reproductive or gender-affirming care in Vermont.

Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott today issued the following statement: “Today, the House of Representatives passed S.5, which I believe will have significant impacts on Vermonters by orchestrating a system that will give people two options: pay significantly more in fuel costs or spend thousands of dollars to install electrical heating systems, when most don’t have

Vermont Business Magazine On Thursday, the House held its initial debate and voted 98-46 to approve the Affordable Heat Act, S.5. It then passed a third reading on Friday and sent it back to the Senate for review.

Vermont Business Magazine Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont actively promotes member access to preventative care. The health plan will continue to cover zero-cost share preventative services despite the recent ruling of the Texas Fifth Circuit in the case of Braidwood Management, Inc. v. Becerra.

Public Assets Institute More Vermont businesses have become all-remote workplaces, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But fewer allow hybrid arrangements, where some employees work from home some of the time.

Vermont Business Magazine Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) sent a letter this week to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Rural Development Xochitl Torres Small, uplifting the concerns of Vermont-based stakeholders in broadband deployment surrounding the USDA’s ReConnect Loan and Grant Program and the Community Connect Grant Program—two initiatives that