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Scores of laid-off IBM workers seek help at state Rapid Response session

Scores of laid-off IBM workers seek help at state Rapid Response session

IBM still has not provided state with the number of employees being laid off. Nevertheless, Labor Department and laid-off workers alike are optimistic about job prospects.

Powering down: A Q&A with Avram Patt

Powering down: A Q&A with Avram Patt

The CEO of Washington Electric Cooperative is retiring at the end of the month after 16 years at the reins.

Federal public housing program tightens competition for financing

Federal public housing program tightens competition for financing

A new federal program would allow local housing authorities to raise their own money to fund public housing improvements and developments. But many fear the increased competition for financing.

Environmental study: VTGas expansion would increase greenhouse gases, not reduce them

Environmental study: VTGas expansion would increase greenhouse gases, not reduce them

Stanton testified that VTGas had failed to include methane and neglected to take life cycle emissions of the project into account.

Working Lands awards $750,000 in grants

Working Lands awards $750,000 in grants

The program provides financial and technical support for Vermont’s working landscape, which includes businesses, infrastructure and products in the agriculture and forestry sectors of the economy.

Margolis: Connecticut law exposes Vermont’s duplicity on energy credits

Margolis: Connecticut law exposes Vermont's duplicity on energy credits

Nutmeg state halts purchase of so-called Renewable Energy Credits, claiming Vermont double counts its alternative energy efforts.

“NEK Today and Tomorrow”: Development drives discussion

NEK Today and Tomorrow: Development drives discussion

The $600 million Northeast Kingdom Economic Development Initiative includes five developments in Jay, Newport and Burke, and is expected to create or preserve 10,000 jobs.

Decommissioning takes center stage in first day of final Vermont Yankee hearings

Decommissioning takes center stage in first day of final Vermont Yankee hearings

“We think this is the last evidentiary hearing the Public Service Board will hold before issuing its determination,” said Geoff Commons, an attorney for the Public Service Department.

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Adam Whiteman, managing director for Frasca & Associates, LLC and consultant to the Airport Strategic Planning Committee, and Karen Paul, I-Ward 6 and co-chair of the committee, speak at City Hall. Photo by John Herrick/VTDigger

Airport planning committee makes recommendations to Burlington City Council

The Airport Strategic Planning Committee recommended that a seat be reserved for a Winooski City Council appointee on a restructured Airport Commission.

Reasons for VSEA director’s ouster coming, Casey says; Mitchell hopes for reinstatement

The rumors swirling around the meeting in which two union attorneys accused Mark Mitchell of knowingly allowing the union to violate labor laws, have continued unabated.

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IBM manufactures microchips at its plant in Essex Junction. Photo by Nat Rudarakanchana/VTDigger

Essex Junction plant hit by latest IBM job cuts

Vermont workers part of company’s ‘global reorganization;’ IBM won’t say how many will lose jobs.

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Leonard: Supreme Court’s decision on gene patenting a victory for patients

Although this decision is specific for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, this sets a precedent in the courts that makes the other gene patents unable to be enforced to stop medical testing.

Leas: F-35 to vastly increase crash risk

With a subject as important as crash risk, the Air Force revised draft EIS should lay out clearly how much greater the F-35 crash risk is than the F-16′s and how long it is expected to take to decline toward the current F-16 crash rate rather than requiring the reader to figure it all out.