Vermont Government News

Just two years from now -if you are among the 143,000 Vermonters covered by private health insurance - you are highly likely to find your health insurance in complete limbo.

Entergy Nuclear of Louisiana, which operates the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon Vermont has launched an attack on the state of Vermont with the help of the federal courts.

When I first moved to southeast Vermont, I knew the about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, just 15.6 miles from us by road - and less as the crow flies.

'We have to do something, or we'll look like South Burlington or worse, and that is not what people... On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange.

While the rest of the nation seemingly rushed headlong off a cliff on Tuesday night and allowed the party that got us into the economic mess we're in back into power, Vermont followed its own political path.

Last week, I was at the Statehouse in Montpelier to cover the inauguration of Peter Shumlin as Vermont's 81st governor.

A. Federal health reform legislation passed by Congress in 2010 requires every state to set up what is called a health benefits exchange by Jan.

You have fans. Do you know who they are? They're the people who root for you to do your best and... Sara Byers, a co-owner of Leonardo's Pizza in South Burlington has concerns about the structure of the health benefit exchange that small businesses like her family's will have to use to buy health insurance beginning in 2014.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- It's a simple fact of life that fast and reliable Internet service is indispensable in a country that wants to continue enjoying a high standard of living.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- Margaret Thatcher once said, "There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families." Maybe her view came from reading too much Ayn Rand at an impressionable age, but Thatcher's idea that the individual is all, unfettered commerce is king and that government - taxes, regulations and ... (more)

On August 26, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

At the same time, as a reporter for Vermont Business Magazine, I have never run out of creative and successful entrepreneurs to profile.

In Sicily, they say that fish start rotting from the head. In the past few months, as we've gotten closer and closer to the end of President George W. Bush's failed terms in office, we've been witnessing a mind-boggling amount of corruption, greed, evil, and downright stupidity.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. - They called him "Silent Cal," but Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States - the second one born in Vermont and the only U.S. president to be born on the Fourth of July - said one of the most beautiful things I've ever read about the state.

It was a great day on Tuesday when Vermont became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage and the first state in the country to enact it without a court order.

Tabitha the four-week-old kitten was found crying among garbage bags in a dumpster.

The white pig hidden within the red cows was first noticed last week, years after it was added by a prison inmate who designed the 16-inch decals.

Montpelier, VT., February 9, 2012 - Vermont's local renewable energy industry- made up of diverse manufacturers, construction contractors, installers, developers, and suppliers- announced today the industry is equipped to help make "Vermont energy strong" in the 21st Century.

Vermont lawmakers are considering legislation that would elevate the state's chief education official from a commissioner to a Cabinet-level secretary, a move supporters say would strengthen the state's education policy but that critics fear will mean a loss of local control over education decisions.

People always say that Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas is a nice man. But he has character as well as policy failings which we can no longer afford to overlook.