Business
groups want the state to raise their taxes in order to shore up the state’s
unemployment insurance trust fund. But
in exchange for paying more, the businesses also want benefits reduced for unemployed
workers.
Cabot Creamery has
been fined $50,000 and placed on two years’ probation for a 2005
ammonia spill that killed plants, fish and macroinvertebrates in the Winooski River.