Help for injured veterans could vanish
There is new bureaucratic bumbling to address the mismanagement and waste at the new traumatic brain injury research program at Central Texas Veterans Health Care System. The system has spent nearly $2.5 million in more than two years on salaries, supplies and MRI scanner time — and not a single veteran has been studied or benefited from the expenditures.
Rather than holding managers accountable for serious transgressions, including literal suppression of, and inaction to, disclosures of fraud, waste, and invalid human research, according to Tim Shea, a regional director of the Veterans Integrated Service Network , the Veterans Administration is considering the closure of one of a few centers in the nation dedicated to testing new imaging and treatments for brain injury.
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Coleman found himself in Iraq three times after he enlisted in 2002. After what he called increasingly violent deployments, Coleman was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder when he left the Marines. The disorder develops in some war veterans and survivors of other traumatic experiences and can trigger violent episodes and flashbacks. Coleman is one of three war veterans featured tonight in a new episode of MTV's documentary series "True Life."
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Community Organizer President Elect Obama...
Obama defends Republic Windows and Doors workers
“When it comes to the situation here in Chicago with the workers who are asking for their benefits and payments they have earned, I think they are absolutely right,” Obama said Sunday at a news conference announcing his new Veterans Affairs director. “What’s happening to them is reflective of what’s happening across this economy.
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In Factory Sit-In,
an Anger Spread Wide
Workers laid off from a Chicago factory on Saturday at what they called an occupation of the plant. They criticized their former bosses, the company’s creditors and the federal government.
The scene inside a long, low-slung factory on this city’s North Side this weekend offered a glimpse at how the nation’s loss of more than 600,000 manufacturing jobs in a year of recession is boiling over.
Laid-off factory workers sit
Factory workers in Chicago stage a sit-in and refuse to leave the factory after being laid off.
Laid Off And Not Leaving
After being let go with three days notice, laid off Chicago factory workers refuse to leave and have staged a sit-in protest.
December 8, 2008
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