Views: U S must fix VA problems now
In a column, the Poughkeepsie Journal critiques VA Secretary Robert McDonald for likening waits to Disney lines. It notes the VA backlog, falsified records, and computer issues, and cites GAO warnings, while urging Congress and Obama to boost reforms and deliver results for veterans.
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Veterans Affairs
Robert McDonald
Disney
McDonald
Christian Science Monitor
West Point
Procter & Gamble
Local lawmakers contact details list
Assemblyman Robert Oaks 718 Legislative Office Building Albany NY 12248 U S Senator Kirsten Gillibrand 531 Dirksen Senate Office Bidg Washington DC 20510 Congressman Richard Hanna 22nd District 319 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515 John Katko 24th District 13 W Oneida St Oswego NY 13126 Will Barclay 120th District 200 N Second St Fulton NY 13069
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Robert Oaks
Legislative
Albany, N.Y
U.S
Kirsten Gillibrand
Dirksen
Senate
Washington, D.C
Richard Hanna
Cannon House
John Katko
W. Oneida St
Oswego
Will Barclay
Second St. Fulton
N.Y
Beyond Election Day Hope Is Found In Concrete Service
Kathryn Jean Lopez reflects on political disappointment and urges action beyond voting. She cites examples from the Sisters of Life to L'Arche founder Jean Vanier, urging people to live out faith through care for others and to influence civic life by service rather than cynicism.
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Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton
Trump
Mary Eberstadt
Hillary
New York City
Sisters of Life
Cardinal O’connor
Jesus
Jean Vanier
L’arche
Canada
This Day in History Highlights June 7, 2016
On June 7 many events shaped history from Richard Henry Lee’s 1776 resolution for independence to moments as varied as Boone’s Kentucky exploration, the Plessy v Ferguson era ruling, Vatican City’s creation, Midway’s WWII victory, Turing’s death, Griswold v Connecticut, Iraq’s reactor bombing, the Jasper murder, Zarqawi’s death, and Gaddafi’s defiant NATO era stance.
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Richard Henry Lee
Virginia
Continental Congress
Louis XIV
Rheims
Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Homer Plessy
East Louisiana
U.S. Supreme Court
Vatican City
Rome
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Niagara Falls
New York
Canada
United States
Alan Turing
Turing
Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson
Minneapolis
Griswold
Connecticut
Planned Parenthood
New Haven
Iraq
James Byrd Jr
Jasper
Texas
Lawrence Russell Brewer
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
al-Qaida
USS. Senate
Muammar Gaddafi
NATO
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Paul Ryan
David
Nancy French
Kathryn Jean Lopez
National Review Institute
National Review Online
Catholic Voices USA
Klopez
Nationalreview.com
Abd Auil Ts Lim
Maine
Kathryn Jean! Lopez
Associated Press
Frederick Langbridge
Che Palladium
Times
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Palltimes.com
New York Publishers Association
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Andrew Poole
Mike LeBoeuf
Palitimes
Palitimes.com
Oswego Palladium-Times
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