Officials with the AARP are saying scammers are bilking
money from seniors confused by the new Affordable Care Act. They say scammers are cold-calling
Medicare-enrolled seniors and telling them to provide Social Security numbers
and other private information or risk losing coverage. The Champlain Valley Agency on Aging and the
attorney general's Consumer Protection Bureau have not received any reports of
this scam in Vermont yet, though
it has been seen at the national level.
If the Air Force decides to base the new and controversial
F-35 fighter jets at the Vermont Air National Guard base, there’s little, if
anything, the city of Burlington
can do to stop it. That’s the opinion of
city attorney Eileen Blackwood who sent a memo on the subject to the City
Council. She also says if the city did
try to stop it that could jeopardize federal funding for the Burlington
International Airport
Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell says he has some
unfinished business he wants to complete, so the 66-year-old says he'll seek
another term next year. Sorrell has been
re-elected every two years since former Gov. Howard Dean appointed him to the
post in 1997, but last year narrowly survived a challenge in the Democratic
primary by Chittenden County Vermont businesses are
infringing on their patents, so-called ‘‘patent trolling.’’ He says the
inclusion of third-party charges on cellphone bills, known as ‘‘wireless
cramming,’’ is a new consumer protection concern. And he says child pornography
needs more enforcement attention.
The Main Street
and Merchants Row Bridge Replacement project is moving into the next
phase. Starting next week, crews will be
at various locations up at the street level and down along the railroad
surveying the land and taking soil borings as they gather information before
the winter starts.
Someone has helped themselves to 14 laptops at the University
of Vermont Old
Mill Building
