Dave’s show begins with a visit by Anne Galloway and Katie Jickling of VTDigger.org, to talk about their coverage of a surgery scramble caused by the closure of a UVM-affiliated surgery center in Colchester. Times Argus editor and publisher Steve Pappas joins Dave to talk about a tussle over a new slogan for Barre. Later, economist Art Woolf and refugee resettlement leader Amila Merdzanovic talk about Vermont’s declining population.