by Kimberly Jin | Aug 6, 2019 | Military
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veteran Affairs says it spent $2.3 billion on its electronic health record system from fiscal 2015 through 2017, but the Government Accountability Office said it found only $1 billion of the spending to be “sufficiently reliable.”...
by Kimberly Jin | Jul 24, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Kate Brown of Gurnee, Illinois, will never forget the Monday morning in May 2005 when she received a phone call and was told that her 27-year-old son was hit by a truck when he was driving in a car in Round Lake, Illinois. The truck driver had fallen...
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by Kimberly Jin | Jul 19, 2019 | Energy, Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON – Thirty-seven years ago, Congress decided the federal government should be responsible for disposing of the waste from the nation’s nuclear power plant. But the waste still is being stored at the plants today. Several leading senators want the federal...
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by Kimberly Jin | Jul 5, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump honored the military during his “Salute to America” speech Thursday night at the Lincoln Memorial and announced that he intends to send a manned spacecraft to Mars. “The same American spirit that emboldened our founders,” Trumps...
by Kimberly Jin | Jun 28, 2019 | Environment
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators has revived the longstanding issue of where to store and dispose of nuclear waste with a new bill proposing centralized interim storage while a search for a permanent disposal site is conducted. Thirty-two years ago,...
