Today: City of Portage veterans' committee member Tom Pappas joins us for a monthly review of the latest committee meeting, with guest Porter County Veterans' Court Judge Jent. He also talks about VA healthcare issues that include why veterans' claims get denied, and the 70th anniversary of the Department of Veterans Affairs' work with medical colleges across the country to give physicians-in-training valuable experience in veterans' health issues.
Michael Boos, the executive director of the Association of the Wolf Lake Initiative (AWLI), talks about the beginning of another "Calumet Revisited" lecture series for 2017 at Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting. Tuesday's initial lecture is by Michael Kobe, retired School City of Hammond administrator and nature photographer, on "The Wolf Lake Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present."
Lakeshore Public Radio's Steven Lattimore also reports today on the concerns of Gary Community Schools employees about their paychecks during the school district's financial crisis, and what north Lake County state legislators heard from their constituents at their recent mid-session town hall meetings.
And we hear about a remarkable lady: Betty Tetslaff, a northwest Indiana resident who is an award-winning song writer and singer -- who just happens to be blind.
