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Bankrupt FairPoint hires ad firms

The phone company has hired Portland-based Garrand and the VIA Group to help get the word out about its services. Garrand will focus on marketing and building brand awareness for FairPoint's new VantagePoint, a new broadband network geared to medical ...

From DAVE GRAM, San Francisco Chronicle,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Verizon Communications Inc.,  Richard Davies

Maine, Vt., step up regulation of polluted runoff

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Maine and Vermont are moving ahead of other states on regulating pollution in storm water running off roofs and parking lots, which often carries oil and other toxic substances. ...

From DAVE GRAM, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Department of Environmental Conservation,  Natural Resources Defense Council

Maine, Vt., move on toxic runoff rules

Department of Environmental Conservation, said that Vermont violators could face fines. MONTPELIER -- Maine and Vermont are moving ahead of other states on regulating pollution in storm water running off roofs and parking lots, which often carries oil ...

From DAVE GRAM, Brattleboro Reformer,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Department of Environmental Conservation,  Natural Resources Defense Council

3 Vt. kids got vaccines against parents' wishes

MONTPELIER, Vt.—Vermont Health Department officials say three students got doses of swine flu vaccine at school-based clinics against the wishes of their parents. Health Commissioner Dr. Wendy Davis calls the errors extremely unfortunate and says ...

From DAVE GRAM, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Shumlin: Vt. faces $88M budget deficit

to find efficiencies within their own agencies, and the Democrats who control the Legislature appointed a new committee on government accountability, which have been scouring government programs in search of efficiencies. MONTPELIER -- Vermont will ...

From DAVE GRAM, Brattleboro Reformer,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Peter Shumlin (politician),  Jim Douglas

Vermont economy hits bottom

MONTPELIER -- Vermont's economy apparently is turning a corner but heading into a slow, painful recovery, state budget officials were told Thursday. figures still gave pessimists plenty to seize on. It included a small decline in revenues for fiscal 201 ...

From DAVE GRAM, Bennington Banner,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jim Douglas

Vt. economy hits bottom; revenue forecast up a bit

MONTPELIER -- Vermont’s economy apparently is turning a corner but heading into a slow, painful recovery, state budget officials were told Thursday. "It’s going to be a couple of tough years still," Gov. Jim Douglas said after the state Emergency Board ...

From DAVE GRAM, Brattleboro Reformer,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jim Douglas

Vt. slaughterhouse closed for inhumane treatment

MONTPELIER, Vt. - A Vermont slaughterhouse closed Friday for alleged inhumane treatment of baby calves had its operating license suspended three times earlier this year for similar conduct. ...

From DAVE GRAM, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Humane Society of the United States

Hearing split over free drug samples

industry lobbyists who are paying rapt attention to Vermont’s on-going efforts to regulate drug companies’ marketing efforts. This year, the state banned free lunches given by drug company representatives to doctors and other prescribers, which Powell ...

From DAVE GRAM, Brattleboro Reformer,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America,  Harvard Medical School,  Dorothy Malone

Vt. testimony sharply divided on free drug samples

MONTPELIER, Vt.—Medical practitioners on Tuesday presented ardent as well as disparate views to a Vermont state panel reviewing the merits of free medicine samples provided at doctors' offices. Curbing or even eliminating the free samples could be the ...

From DAVE GRAM, Boston Globe,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America,  Harvard Medical School,  Dorothy Malone

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