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Regional Report: Working Group To Consider Funding For Vt. Veterans Home

Vermont Public | By Melody Bodette,

Published April 3, 2015 at 5:00 AM EDT

There was some good news recently for Vermont's only state home for veterans. Vermont House members in Montpelier voted to fund the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington with $5.4 million from the state's General Fund.

But looking ahead, and fearing budget deficits similar to the one dogging the state this year, members also voted to create a working group to study ways the home might eliminate its reliance on the General Fund by the year 2018.

VPR spoke with Bennington Banner reporter Keith Whitcomb for our Friday Regional Report.

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Melody Bodette

Melody is the Contributing Editor for But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids and the co-author of two But Why books with Jane Lindholm.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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