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• Missing man, 76, last seen on Near West Side

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  Police are looking for a 76-year-old man last seen Wednesday afternoon outside the Veterans Affairs Hospital at 820 S. Damen Ave. Herbert Smith suffers from diabetes and possible dementia, and is currently on various medications, according to a missing persons alert issued by police. He was last spotted outside the ...
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• VA Zero-Down Loan Limits Reduced For 2010 In San Diego County

  
  Picture Perfect San Diego — Authority: 133
  The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) announced that the maximum zero-down VA loan limit for 2010 is being reduced from $593,750 to $437,500 for San Diego County.  Remember that VA loan amounts exceeding $417,000 are considered VA Jumbo loans.Other areas, such as Los Angeles and Orange Counties, will have ...
  2 days ago

• What Can $260 Billion Get You?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  Due to unconstitutional spending for decades, liberals who created this mess and the rest of us have to live with a $260 billion dollar line item in the federal budget.  At least that is what it was in 2009.  That $260 billion is the amount of interest we as a nation are paying this year to cover all the spending ...
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• New VA patients younger, more likely to be women (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AP – Doctors at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in this quiet, bucolic town tucked between coal country and the nation’s capital used to … More here: (AP)"> (AP)">New VA patients younger, more likely to be women (AP)
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• Why “Doctor Sees Results First” is harmful

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 417
  Hope Lehman, who just did a wonderful job interviewing me on her blog , also asked me about this quote in a previous post: “Not only do we now have information that this rule (”doctor sees results first”) is probably harmful, we are learning that it’s probably not wanted, from physicians, who are talking ...
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• Here and There…

  
  random babble... — Authority: 465
  Shameless Self-Promotion time! I have a couple of new posts at Change’s Women’s Rights blog: This Just In: Sex Isn’t Going to Destroy You! : A study done by the University of Minnesota finds that only a fifth of sexually active youth participate in casual sex, or this rampant “hookup culture” we hear ...
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• Legacy of Agent Orange continues in U.S., Vietnam

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 136
  The Chicago Tribune is in the middle of an ambitious five-part series in which reporters Jason Grotto and Tim Jones seek to shed light on one of the great gray areas of veterans’ medicine: the effects of Agent Orange. The first installment gave background on the use and consequences of Agent Orange . ...
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• Obamas Final Four

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 136
  No, not that final four . This final four, from the OMB blog : [E]arlier this year, President Obama launched the SAVE Award — a program that offered every federal employee the chance to submit ideas about how government can save money and perform better. Over the course of three weeks, federal employees ...
  1 week ago

• California hospitals implementation of open-source EHR bears watching | EHR Watch

  
  The World We'll Inherit — Authority: 109
  By the end of the year, Kern Medical Center, a county-owned 222-bed acute-care teaching hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., will have implemented Medsphere Systems’ OpenVista electronic health record (EHR). This deployment bears watching because it may become a trend in terms of providers adopting an open-source EHR. ...
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• Obama’s Four Flimsy Budget Cutting Ideas

  
  Big Government — Authority: 820
  President Obama, in his speech on the economy , given at the Bookings Institute, once again, tried to be all things to all people.  Most of the speech was aimed at the dwindling number of devotees who were anxious to hear that additional taxpayer revenues would continue to flow to favored, pet projects. Nor were ...
  1 week ago

• ExecutiveBiz Names Top 20 People to Watch in 2010

  
  ExecutiveBiz Blog — Authority: 419
  In just a few short weeks, 2010 begins — the dawn of a new decade. The question now is: Who’ll be leading change in and around government contracting? We’ve got a few suggestions. For the second consecutive year, ExecutiveBiz brings you its annual list of Top 20 People to Watch . From government leaders to ...
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• Obama Escalates War As His Admin Struggles to Tackle A Surge In PTSD Cases

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 133
  This investigative report was originally published on Truthout . Mary Susan Littlepage, a Truthout intern, was a contributing reporter. A disturbing new study released last month by the Army Mental Health Advisory Team has found that an increasing number of soldiers serving in Afghanistan are suffering ...
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• VA’s Home Loan Program a “Continued Success”

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 135
  VA loan program a success despite market weakness Despite problems in the nation’s housing market, mortgage loans backed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) had a lower foreclosure rate than any other type of home loan in the industry, as of the end of the last fiscal year. “The dedication of VA’s loan ...
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• Shinseki Says VAs Home Loan Program a "Continued Success"

  
  Wounded Times — Authority: 144
  Shinseki Says VAs Home Loan Program a "Continued Success" Veterans More Likely to Avoid Foreclosure with VA-Backed LoanWASHINGTON (Dec. 7, 2009) - Despite problems in the nations... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Obama Appears Serious Attacking Mental Health Crisis

  
  Uppity Wisconsin — Authority: 127
  Funny how peace advocates like Sen. Russ Feingold and Rep. Tammy Baldwin become leading champions for veterans, and chickenhawks like Dick Cheney and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) take direct aim at our veterans. This difference of opinion and commitment is the one reason veterans advocates maintain hope ...
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• Obama Appears Serious Attacking Mental Health Crisis

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 155
  Original Author:  mal contends Funny how peace advocates like Sen. Russ Feingold and Rep. Tammy Baldwin become leading champions for veterans, and chickenhawks like Dick Cheney and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) take direct aim at our veterans. This difference of ...
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• Obama Appears Serious Attacking Mental Health Crisis

  
  MAL Contends . . . — Authority: 467
  Joining the critics of the Afghan escalation, I do wish to point out one irony: President Obama appears serious in attacking the mental health crisis of veterans. Its no great surprise to learn that training young adults to kill and put themselves in the line of fire tends to lead to psychological complications later ...
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• Chicago Trib Has Killer Series on Agent Orange

  
  MAL Contends . . . — Authority: 467
  Tribune Watchdog Report on Agent Orange Memories of the Vietnam War are dimming, but veterans and Vietnamese nationals who were exposed to Agent Orange and other dioxin-laced defoliants are still experiencing devastating health effects, and birth defects have brought the impact into a second generation. Yet the ...
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• MoH Recipient Has Flagpole Issues

  
  United Conservatives of Virginia — Authority: 540
  WWII MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER FACES SUIT OVER HIS FLAG-FLYING By Zinie Chen Sampson The Associated Press RICHMOND A 90-year-old Army veteran who won the Medal of Honor during World War II is battling his neighborhood association for what he says is his right to fly the American flag from a pole in his front yard. Col. ...
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• VA to Survey Veteran Households

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 135
  Eric Shinseki Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched a national survey of Veterans, active duty service members, activated National Guard and reserve members, and family members and survivors to learn if they are aware of VA services. “By ...
  1 week ago

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