House committee votes out jobs bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2011 CONTACT: Tom Cheney (802) 828-2245 tcheney@leg.state.vt.us Montpelier – The House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development today voted out its jobs bill with a favorable vote of 9-1-1. The bill assembles two dozen initiatives and focuses on the urgency of supporting business expansion and job creation in Vermont. It [...]
House Republicans call on Vermonters to get involved in debate on single payer health care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2011 CONTACT: Rep. Don Turner (802) 373-5960 Rep. Patti Komline (908) 938-1616 MONTPELIER – House Republicans today called on Vermonters to get involved in the debate over the creation of a single-payer health care system in Vermont. “This drastic change to our health care system will affect every Vermonter, every [...]
Sanders Statement on Wartime Contracting Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2011 CONTACT: Michael Briggs or Will Wiquist (202) 224-5141 BURLINGTON – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after The Commission on Wartime Contracting released a report to Congress on ways to reduce billions of dollars in waste associated with the government’s unprecedented use of contractors in Iraq [...]
Advocacy groups join together in opposition to mental health services cuts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2011 CONTACT: Floyd Nease Executive Director Vermont Association for Mental Health (802) 223-6263 Katina Cummings Executive Director National Alliance on Mental Illness (802) 244-1396 An unprecedented coalition of advocacy groups announced this morning a common legislative agenda for services to Vermonters who have developmental disabilities, mental illness and addictions. The [...]
Jim Douglas elected director of Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company and New England Guaranty Insurance Company, Inc.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2011 CONTACT: Union Mutual of Vermont Companies 139 State Street, P.O. Box 158 Montpelier , VT 05601-0158 Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company and New England Guaranty Insurance Company, Inc. elected former Governor James H. Douglas of Middlebury, Vermont to a two-year term as a director of both companies at the [...]
Partnership gives Newport, Vermont another competitive edge
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2011 CONTACT: Patricia M Sears Co-chair Newport e-Vermont 802 323 1056 patricia.sears@discovernewportvt.com Newport – Newport e-Vermont committee is proud to announce that there is now wireless Internet service in downtown Newport. There is no cost for downtown customers and visitors to use GAW High Speed Internet service along Main Street [...]
Welch to Obama: Consider using strategic oil reserve
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2011 CONTACT: Scott Coriell 202.225.4115 (o) 202.689.5352 (c) BURLINGTON, VT – With turmoil spreading across the Middle East, light sweet crude oil spiking above $100 a barrel for the first time since 2008, and summer driving season fast approaching, Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and two House colleagues have asked President [...]
Entergy Louisiana continues its deceptive advertising campaign one year after historic vote to retire troubled nuclear plant
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2011 CONTACT: Paul Burns VPIRG 802-223-5221 (o) 802-793-1985 (c) paul@vpirg.org MONTPELIER, VT – On the first anniversary of the Vermont state Senate’s historic ‘no confidence’ vote regarding the problem-plagued nuclear plant owned by Entergy Louisiana, the company continues to blanket the state in false and misleading advertising in an effort [...]
House passes measure to reduce phosphorus pollution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2011 CONTACT: Genevieve M. Burnell Director of Communications Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce 60 Main Street, Suite 100 Burlington, VT 05401 gen@vermont.org (802) 863-3489 ext 209 BURLINGTON – The Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce has worked extensively with local legislators on H.25, a bill the Chamber introduced that [...]
Lt. Governor Phil Scott encourages participation in health care public hearing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2011 CONTACT: Nancy Driscoll Chief of Staff, Lt. Governor Phil Scott nancy.driscoll@state.vt.us 802-828-2226 Montpelier, VT – Lt. Governor Phil Scott encouraged Vermonters to participate in an upcoming public hearing on March 7 on H.202/S.57, the health care reform proposal. “I’ve heard from many Vermonters who are anxious to ask questions [...]
