Broyles: Vermont Yankee tax bad for state
Vermont Yankee already pays millions in taxes – money that funds everything from our state’s clean energy initiatives to education.
Keelan: Let’s have a ribbon cutting instead
Five years ago Manchester was a shopkeeper’s delight. Store vacancies were for the most part non-existent. Store sales were the envy of the retail world, topping out at over $1,000 per square foot or more.
Lewis: A modest proposal for the Vermont economy
Attracting and retaining qualified professionals is affected by a number of factors: willingness to relocate to Vermont, availability of appropriate housing, family status, spouse or partner’s employment needs, etc.
Campaign for Vermont Partners make suggestions to Montpelier policymakers
For immediate release April 6, 2012 Contact Shawn Shouldice Phone: 802-371-7923 Montpelier (April 6, 2012) – Campaign for Vermont Founding Partner Marc Sherman of Hyde Park, along with Partners William Sayre of Bristol and Sean Walsh of Fairfield joined other Vermont business leaders this week in expressing their concerns about Vermont’s economic future, before a [...]
Creating a Human Scale Economy, Workshop March 3
For immediate release Feb. 28, 2012 Contact Stephen Marshall Phone: 802-861-2316 On March 3, 2012 at 12:00 noon, in the Community Room of Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library, join three area experts on local economies to learn how two legislative initiatives, under consideration this year in the Vermont State Legislature, could dramatically improve local economies in [...]
Local CPA firm conducts economic survey re: future of Vermont businesses
Sales levels increasing employment remains stable; capital spending decreases demands for Shumlin to address healthcare and broadband issues
Lunderville releases Oct. revenue figures — slow Vermont economy still a concern
State of Vermont Agency of Administration Neale F. Lunderville, Secretary Office of the Secretary [phone] 802-828-3322 Pavilion Office Building [fax] 802-828-3320 109 State Street Montpelier, VT 05609-0201 www.adm.state.vt.us2 PRESS RELEASE November 16, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Neale F. Lunderville (802) 828-3322 Montpelier, VT – Secretary of Administration Neale F. Lunderville Announces Vermont’s October Revenue [...]
Dunne on video: The state’s economy is “losing ground dramatically”
The total number of businesses launched in the state dropped significantly from 2003 through 2009, from a high of about 2,700 new companies to a low of about 1,800, according to a chart Dunne presented at a press conference in Winooski. The chart was based on data from the Vermont Secretary of State’s office.
State lawmakers ask Douglas to push for clean energy jobs in his meeting with Obama on Wed.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rep. Kesha Ram, 881-4433 February 2, 2010 In light of a meeting at the White House tomorrow regarding energy and climate issues to which Governor Douglas has been invited as part of a select group of governors, a nonpartisan letter was circulated among state legislators today urging him to support comprehensive [...]
Vermont Receives $5.7 Million in Emergency Dairy Payments
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced that $5.7 million in emergency support to more than 1,000 Vermont dairy farmers has been released. The assistance, coming at a time when dairy farmers have experienced the lowest prices in 40 years, is part of a $350 million dairy assistance measure sponsored by Sanders.
