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Vermont businesses strained by the Covid-19 pandemic could soon be able to begin applying for $70 million worth of state aid, with guidelines for the business grants coming on Wednesday, Gov. Phil Scott said Monday. But the governor also reiterated that he doesn’t believe lawmakers have gone far enough in financial support for struggling businesses. See VTDigger’s story
VTDigger recently talked to two Vermont-based internet providers — ECFiber, in the east-central part of the state, and VTel, in its southern corridor — about updates in the broadband infrastructure expansions they’ve made so far as the coronavirus crisis continues. See VTDigger’s story
More than 1,500 Vermont employees of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are expected to receive notice of a potential furlough, due to the agency’s budgetary crisis. The agency says financial troubles stem from a Covid-19 related 50% decrease in fees and receipts. See VTDigger’s story
With early voting for the Aug. 11 primary beginning Monday, the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office has already received nearly seven times as many absentee ballot requests as it did by this date in 2018. The Covid-19 pandemic has raised concerns about large groups of people gathering at polling locations to vote. See VTDigger’s story
Vermont Law School will hold all of its classes virtually in the fall, the school announced Monday, while Dartmouth College said that undergraduates would be allowed back to campus on an alternating basis, and that the vast majority of classes would be delivered online. See VTDigger’s story
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Eric Booth & Paul Gambill: The opportunity of crisis
