Vermont Business Magazine Business Brief Podcast

  • Vermont unemployment rate stays at 6.7 percent, Weekly unemployment claims fall 36 percent; Governor criticizes EPA’s decision to reconsider $100 million Lake Champlain cleanup plan; Green Mountain Coffee Roasters extends tender offer to acquire Diedrich Coffee; Robert Cioffi elected chair of the University of Vermont Board of Trustees
  • $36.4 million in business financing approved by VEDA; Moody's downgrades Burlington's credit rating; $1.7 million for state of the art simulation program at Fletcher Allen Health Care; 32 highway improvement stimulus projects under way or completed in Vermont
  • Vermont personal income tax receipts drag down state revenues; Sovernet announces network infrastructure and equipment upgrades; Former Middlebury company workers to get federal Trade Adjustment assistance; City Market, Onion River Co-op is now powered by the sun
  • $8.7 million Vermont economic stimulus bill focused on jobs; Governor Douglas announces $630,000 in grants for five Vermont communities; Vermont Yankee updates
  • Weekly unemployment claims increase again; Lowell voters support GMP wind project in 3-1 vote; Vermont Yankee engineers and technicians continue investigation into source of tritium leak
  • Unemployment Benefits Blockade could cause headaches in Vermont; United States Senate passes Travel Promotion Act; Green Mountain Coffee Roasters recognized as one of the '100 Best Corporate Citizens'
  • Workers' compensation to go down again on April 1; $250,000 in state grants available for planning projects; Trucks now allowed on new Champlain ferry
  • Possible Source of Tritium Leak at Vermont Yankee Found; Vermont State Senate Passes Economic Development Bill S. 288; Vermont to Receive Federal Matching Funds for Electronic Health Record Incentives Program; Vermont sales tax holiday Saturday, March 6
  • Vermont's economy second-fastest growing in nation; Green Energy Live to acquire Peck Electric; Dairy industry leaders unite to offer recommendations to USDA
  • Vermont Senate votes to close Yankee; Vermont and Maine win $11 million federal grant for children's health care; Weekly unemployment claims increase; Heavy snow knocks out power to more than 20,000 CVPS customers