Snelling Center cuts staff, relocates
The Snelling Center for Government was flush a year ago. The nonpartisan civic leadership group had seven employees, a budget of about $800,000 and an office space in downtown Burlington. Today, the well-regarded center, named for the late Gov. Richard Snelling and run by his son, Mark, is operating with half that budget and has [...]
State IT assessment behind schedule
TPI of Stamford, Conn., which describes itself as the largest sourcing data and advisory firm in the world, was to have completed work on 35 “deliverables,” or sets of tasks, by Nov. 25 for the Vermont Department of Information and Innovation. Two-thirds of those deliverables are behind schedule. An additional 34 are due next week.
Allbee: Vt.’s working landscape under stress
Dairy farming utilizes the majority of land in Vermont. Since January of this year, some fifty-three Vermont dairy farms have ceased operating.
Spreading the News Part 2: The History of Newspaper Reporting in Vermont
The hours were grueling, the pay modest (about $250 per week for the top reporters in the early 1970s), but the influence of the State House reporters was considerable, usually because they knew more about what was going on each day than most of the legislators themselves.
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Spreading the News Part I: The History of Newspaper Reporting in Vermont
Newspaper reporting in Vermont, as Weston Cate, a former head of the Vermont Historical Society, once said, represents one of numerous holes that still exist in Vermont history books. Most Vermont reporters seem to have written about almost everyone but themselves.
Video footage: Gube race 2010. All five Democratic candidates are on the same green page
It’s not clear yet what will distinguish any one candidate from another in the 2010 governor’s race.
Con Hogan: Health care costs are rising too quickly in Vermont
Con Hogan urges the Vermont Legislature to take concrete steps toward creating a single-payer system.
Keep Local Farms lands two contracts
Ten cents of every pint of milk students at the University of Vermont and Harvard University buy will be passed on to dairy farmers. UVM launched its Keep Local Farms fund-raising campaign on Monday. Harvard joined the program on Oct. 19. The slight price hike is part of a fund-raising and marketing campaign to raise [...]
Break-even milk prices won’t be enough to save some of Vermont’s dairy farms
Milk prices are going up in December, and the federal government has said it will purchase $60 million worth of cheese and make $290 million in direct payments to the nation’s dairy farmers.
