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Protect your benefits

Have you received a suspicious call from an organization claiming to represent or have affiliation with VA? Did the caller guarantee a lucrative payout for your disability compensation or pension claim for a “small fee?”
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Weekly Gas Price Update

Average gasoline prices in in the last week, averaging today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of stations in. Prices in are a month ago and stand a year ago. The national average price of diesel has declined 13.0 cents in the last week and stands at $5.41 per gallon.
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Boozman, Heinrich Introduce Legislation Eliminating Penalty to Travel for VA Care

Washington – U.S. Senators John Boozman (R- AR) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee responsible for Department of Veterans Affairs funding, introduced legislation to repeal the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) copayment requirement for veterans traveling to medical appointments.
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Dennis Milligan issues Statement On Fisher

“I am saddened to hear of the passing of former State Treasurer Jimmie Lou Fisher this morning. Jimmie Lou was the longest-serving Treasurer of Arkansas, serving from 1981-2003. I had the pleasure of serving with Jimmie Lou on the board of directors for the Arkansas Rural Endowment Fund and always enjoyed her wit and charm. She had a graceful presence and truly cared about serving Arkansas.
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Cattleticks

Scientists conducting research on tick-transmitted cattle diseases in Arkansas have turned up new samples of the invasive Asian longhorned tick. The Asian longhorned tick, also known as a bush tick, was found in May by Elizabeth Smith, extension entomology program tech for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, who was collecting ticks from cattle at the Savoy Research Complex.
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Gas Prices drop 5-weeks straight

Average gasoline prices in Arkansas have fallen 16.0 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.09/g today, according to Gas-Buddy’s survey of 1,826 stations in Arkansas. Prices in Arkansas are 41.7 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand $1.24/g higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has declined 10.8 cents in the last week and stands at $5.54 per gallon.
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Social trust . . .

Every four years, the National Intelligence Council provides a forecast of the world for the next 20 years. In March 2021, they released the latest National Intelligence Forecast. As we could have predicted, the next 20 years looks turbulent. It appears we are living in the best of times, and we need to enjoy our way of life while we can. The future of the world will hinge on whether we allow technology and social media to unite us or divide us. So far as a society we are failing in the area of unification. The freedom that the internet allows has spurred some to create division and hate. And I don’t think many of us want to know the evils going on behind the scenes or underground on the World Wide Web.
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