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Vets turn to VA for dental help By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
Vermont’s U.S. Rep. Peter Welch is a sponsor of the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (H.R. 946) which would Amend the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to ensure that the FCC has the authority and the tools to take strong, quick action when they track down robocallers.
RUTLAND | When Cold War-era U.S. Navy veteran Donald McColgan, a resident of Rutland County, turned to the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction for help with an extreme dental problem, he learned that in-house veteran dental care is non-existent compared to Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities in other states. McColgan, a former naval avi-
ation crew member, has a painful nerve disorder possibly linked to several flight-related missions. “I’m a 100-percent disabled veteran. I am trying to get dental care help from the White River Junction VA,” McColgan said. “I guess it’s no surprise that the department there is dysfunctional. They don’t call you back and even the service providers say that... I’ve been working on this for the second year, to get proper treatment; it’s weird isn’t it? The VA is a cesspool of dysfunc-
tion from my perspective.” What makes the VA facility in White River Junction frustrating to McColgan is that the hospital, unlike most other VA hospitals in other states, farms out treatment plans to community dentists. “We actually don’t have dental care here on site,” Katherine Tang, public affairs officer at the VA in White River Junction, told True North. “We refer all of this (dental work) out to the community.”
» Vets dental Cont. on pg. 3
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Welch: stop robocalls From News Reports U.S. HOUSE NEWS
SOUTH BURLINGTON | At a Burlington airport news conference recently, Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) unveiled H.R. 946, new legislation moving through Congress, that will crack down on unwanted and often predatory robocalls. “Vermonters are fed up with intrusive robocalls that are annoying at best and predatory at worst,” said Welch. “The calls often originate from scam artists intent on ripping
off unsuspecting consumers, particularly seniors. Our bill gives the FCC the tools it needs to be the cop on the beat to go after these bad actors.” Robocalls have dramatically increased in Vermont and nationally. Welch said that in 2018, 47 billion robocalls were made in the United States, representing a 64 percent increase over 2016. Last month, more than 4 million robocalls were made in Vermont alone. In 2016, scams involving robocalls cost 22 million Americans a total of $9.5 billion. ■
Vermont VFW’s Donald Dockter: “Unfortunately with the declining members of Congress who have actually worn the uniform of the United States Armed Services, we are continually battling to maintain what benefits that we do have.” Pictured: Vermont veterans at a recent Middlebury Memorial Day Parade. Photo by Lou Varricchio
Good news for working moms
FUTURE PARK:
By Lou Varricchio
A new, five-foot-wide cement sidewalk will be constructed next to the Middlebury National Bank, according to Jim Gish, Middlebury’s project community liaison: “Between the (bank) roadway and the rail line will sit the new Lazarus Park, which will feature, among other things, an ADA-accessible pathway leading from Main Street into the Marble Works and, at the bottom of the pathway, a labyrinth composed of stone pavers.”
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MIDDLEBURY | If you’re a working motherliving in Vermont, you’re probably in the best place to access all the resources and needs for your family life. With Mother’s Day just past and more than 70 percent of moms with young children working today, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst States for Working Moms as well as accompanying videos. In order to help ease the burden on “Women Who Work,” particularly moms, WalletHub compared the attractiveness of each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for a working mother based on 16 key metrics.
Photo by Jim Gish
The data set ranges from median women’s salary to female unemployment rate to daycare quality. WalletHub’s survey results for Vermont are as follows: Life as a Working Mom in Vermont (1=best; 25=avg.) • 4th – Pediatricians per capita • 2nd – Gender pay gap (women’s earnings as percentage of men’s) • 4th – Ratio of female executives to male executives • 1st – Female unemployment rate • 11th – Parental-leave policy score • 9th – Average length of woman’s workday (in hours) • 20th – Percentage of single-mom families in poverty. » Working moms Cont. on pg. 2
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