Tag: VA
VA shadow rulers had sway over contracting and budgeting
New disclosures and investigations are straining the three Trump associates’ relationship with the new VA secretary.
VA official pleads guilty to bribery, fraud, and obstruction charges
From 2015 through 2017, James King used his position as a Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program counselor at the VA to demand bribes from the owners of at least three separate schools in exchange for funds using the veterans’ federal benefits.
VA’s mental health care crisis draws private firms pitching dubious PTSD...
That combination has touched off a behind-the-scenes race by private companies, some offering questionable – or at least unproven – treatments for the signature injury of modern war: post-traumatic stress disorder.
The FBI questioned a black man about racist extremists in Charlottesville...
Donald Blakney is the third counter-protester to be arrested and charged for events connected to the rally. All three of these individuals are black, and all three were attacked at the rally.
Former VA police officer indicted after assaulting patient and falsifying report
If convicted, Michael Kaim faces up to 10 years in federal prison on the civil rights charge and up to 20 years on the obstruction of justice charge.
Bernie Sanders condemns Trump’s plan to privatize VA
“We must protect the VA, not destroy it.”
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Garbage in, garbage CEO windfalls out
‘Waste management’ won’t help us confront climate change so long as corporate self-interest rules.
The crowning fiasco: even the king looked embarrassed
The discussion around the British monarchy, which is starting to ignite and will grow and deepen, needs to take in the wider issue of wealth and income inequality and the poisonous economic system that fuels it.
‘Enormous policy failure’: states throw hundreds of thousands—including many children—off Medicaid
"We knew this was coming," wrote one policy expert. "But we still treat these burdens like they're unavoidable natural disasters."
Supreme Court ruling against EPA ‘undoes a half-century of progress’ in protecting waters of...
"It puts our Nation’s wetlands – rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds connected to them – at risk of pollution and destruction, jeopardizing the sources of clean water that millions of American families, farmers, and businesses rely on."
How workers in the South are defying history
The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.