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1 week ago | 
bartonchronicle.com | Maria Amador |Tracy Davis Pierce
by Maria AmadorMONTPELIER — While the imposition of tariffs remains at once looming and elusive, state officials and businesses on both sides of the border are trying to prepare for the worst. Some have already started living it.
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1 week ago | 
bartonchronicle.com | Maria Amador |Tracy Davis Pierce
by Maria AmadorCRAFTSBURY — On April 9, House Representative Leanne Harple of West Glover was among several speakers at a Craftsbury Schools Forum. She discussed her recent work on the education bill H.454, and said she planned to vote aye for a version of it on the following day.
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3 weeks ago | 
bartonchronicle.com | Maria Amador |Tracy Davis Pierce
by Maria AmadorMONTPELIER — On March 20, the Vermont Senate introduced a resolution supporting “warm and cooperative” relations on behalf of both the United States and Vermont with Canada. The resolution, which was sponsored by 27 of the 30 senators in the Legislature including Senator Sam Douglass of Orleans County, also urges President Donald Trump to remove all tariffs imposed on Canadian imports and to refrain from enacting new ones.
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3 weeks ago | 
bartonchronicle.com | Maria Amador |Tracy Davis Pierce
by Maria AmadorHARDWICK — On March 27 Vermonters traveled from all over the state to Hazen Union High School for a public education town hall. Its focus was Governor Phil Scott’s plan to transform the state’s education system. Participants included teachers, administrators, one state representative, and dozens of community members, many of whom seemed to agree that school budget cuts and consolidation aren’t silver bullets for tax relief.
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1 month ago | 
bartonchronicle.com | Maria Amador |Tracy Davis Pierce
by Maria AmadorMONTPELIER — The first confusion was over the town. Last week my friend Helen suggested I take my other friends from out of town on an easy hike up Greensboro’s Barr Hill. Naturally, I assumed the other Barr Hill, experts in gin, built its distillery in close proximity to its nature area. I have lived here for nearly a year and still I am grateful, if slightly shocked, for how often Google Maps is the vessel for crucial segments of my education on the Kingdom.
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1 month ago | 
bartonchronicle.com | Maria Amador |Tracy Davis Pierce
by Maria AmadorNEWPORT — On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Peter Welch paid a visit to the Eastside Restaurant and Pub to express his outrage over President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Canada — which he called our greatest ally. Marie-Claude Bibeau, a member of Canada’s Parliament (MP), was invited to join the senator’s “roundtable” discussion, alongside more than twenty business owners and professionals from the Northeast Kingdom and across the border.
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1 month ago | 
bartonchronicle.com | Maria Amador |Tracy Davis Pierce
by Maria AmadorLOWELL — When it comes to death — one’s own or someone else’s — many assume the benefits of time and preparation, but forget the effort that makes them possible. That is, confronting the inevitable with the same kind of planning and thoughtfulness one deploys while still alive. If the notion of planning ahead for death seems difficult, and perhaps unnecessary, there are people whose job it is to help dispel that error and facilitate preparations for the inevitable.
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2 months ago | 
bartonchronicle.com | Maria Amador |Tracy Davis Pierce
by Maria Amador ORLEANS — On February 4, Shawn Straffin of New Kingdom Properties, LLC, rescinded his offer on the Orleans Industrial Park property he wanted for a housing development. His decision came after several weeks of intense pushback from Orleans Village residents and business owners — particularly Kimball Johnson, owner of the Kimtek Corporation located in the industrial park.
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2 months ago | 
asuntoslegales.com.co | Asuntos Legales |Hector Medina |Maria Amador
La implementación de IA en el país en materia laboral y de recursos humanos está en una etapa temprana, pero su potencial y desafíos son innegables. En la era digital, la inteligencia artificial (IA) está transformando numerosos sectores, y también la gestión de los recursos humanos en las empresas. En Colombia, la implementación de la IA en los procesos laborales está en una etapa temprana, pero su potencial y los desafíos que plantea son innegables.
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2 months ago | 
asuntoslegales.com.co | Asuntos Legales |Hector Medina |Maria Amador
En un escenario negocial, las partes, actuando bajo el principio de libertad contractual tienen la facultad de determinar libremente el contenido y las condiciones de sus acuerdos. Este derecho encuentra su fundamento en el artículo 1602 del Código Civil, el cual establece que el contrato es ley para las partes y que estas deben cumplir con lo pactado.
