![New VA Office To Focus on Reducing Rural Health Problems for Native American Vets]()
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
The Department of Veterans Affairs is creating a new umbrella office to manage health care for all American Indian and Alaska Native veterans and expanding a new program to help rural Native American veterans more easily access VA health care, officials announced last...
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough tasked his agency’s new Advisory Committee on Tribal and Indian Affairs with helping the VA take more innovative approaches to serving Native American veterans. The newly created panel, one of 27 VA advisory committees,...
![What You May Not Know About MLK Jr.’s “Give Us the Ballot” Speech]()
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 17 honored the historic Baptist minister who revolutionized the American civil rights movement by advocating for Black Americans through nonviolent protest.King was famous for, among other things, his powerful Aug. 28, 1963 “I Have a...
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Jan 11, 2022 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of American business is “competitive,” Suzanne Clark, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Tuesday. “Competition is how we build our country, make it exceptional and move it...
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Dec 1, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — “I am worried about it…for the obvious reasons,” said John Kerry, the first U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, when asked if he was concerned over whether the international community will be successful in mitigating harmful fossil fuels...
