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Vermont Senate GOP disapproves of House's vote on military retirement taxation

Tue, 04/20/2021 - 8:19am tim
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Senate Republican Caucus released a statement Monday night objecting to a House action that did not fully eliminate the tax on military retirement income. Governor Scott and Lieutenant Governor Gray also penned a co-bylined piece Monday urging the Legislature fully eliminate the tax. They said that fully eliminating this tax is not only about honoring our veterans for their service and sacrifice, but also about growing our workforce and increasing diversity in our state.
The GOP Senate Caucus issued the following statement concerning the House s action on S.53 as amended: ....

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Vermont Considers Giving Communities More Say in Building Out Broadband

Tim Newcomb
Internet service was agonizingly slow when Ed and Elizabeth Childs moved into their rural Corinth home in 2012. Nearly a decade later, it s not much better. The couple pays $75 a month for DSL service over the copper wires of their local telephone company, but it s useless for many modern tasks.
Any kind of teleconferencing or uploading files is a real problem, Ed said. To upload video, even in a compressed format, you re talking hours and hours even days.
So Ed, a retired electrical engineer, did two things. He joined the Space on Main in nearby Bradford, a coworking space where he has the high-speed internet connection he needs to develop a new business venture. And he joined the governing board of the East Central Vermont Telecommunications District, better known as ECFiber. ....

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Column | Unequal Treatment: A Professor Schools Legislators on Biases in Health Care

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Tim Newcomb
What s all this talk we hear about systemic racism? In progressive, chill Vermont, such a thing couldn t be a problem. Well, OK, maybe racial bigotry pops up occasionally in web comments or the remarks of unenlightened people. But in a professional health care setting where you re talking with doctors and nurses, you d never see or hear it, right?
Wrong.
Maria Mercedes Avila is devoting her career to combating the systemic biases that interfere with the delivery of good medicine to patients because of factors such as their race, sexual orientation or status as immigrants. A PhD who is an associate professor of pediatrics and an adjunct assistant professor of nursing at the University of Vermont and its Larner College of Medicine, Avila testified about her work one morning last week before the Vermont House Health Care Committe ....

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