by Natalie Bailey | May 25, 2010 | Environment
Natalie Bailey/MNS The White House’s Carol Browner and Robert Gibbs, along with Adm. Thad Allen, who is coordinating efforts to contain and cleanup the Gulf of Mexico site of the oil spill following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, say it’s still a team...
by Natalie Bailey | May 20, 2010 | National Security, Topics
What the issue looks like: • The VA estimates 107,000 veterans are homeless on any given night, down from 195,000 in 2004. The Annual Homeless Assessment Report has a higher count of 135,583, or 12 percent of homeless adults. • One in five veterans coming home from...
by Natalie Bailey | May 10, 2010 | Politics
President Barack Obama has announced his nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat vacancy that will be left by Justice John Paul Stevens when he retires this summer. Before the Senate Judiciary Committee vets Solicitor General Elena Kagan, see how much you know about...
by Natalie Bailey | Apr 21, 2010 | National Security
Natalie Bailey/MNS Marco Reininger, a veteran now at Columbia University in New York, said the VA needs to come up to speed with modern technology in order to cut the confusion surrounding the new Post 9/11 GI Bill. WASHINGTON – Veterans trying to get an education...
by Natalie Bailey | Apr 16, 2010 | National Security
WASHINGTON — As state officials watched the poor economy and pay freezes shut down many GI On-the-Job Training programs, temporarily eliminating required pay increases for veterans in private-sector jobs seemed like the sensible thing to do, said Chad Shatz,...
