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STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Legislative notebook: Lockout extension out
By Don Davis Minnesota senators removed extended unemployment benefits for workers locked out by employers in labor disputes during a Friday bill debate The provision was a Democratic response to a 20...
Posted on 4/19/13 at 6:21 PM
THE NEW FORTY Courage defined.
Today I want to share with you something that was shared on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Facebook Page. I re-posted it on Veteran Suicides - America's Shame Facebook Page, but I thought I s...
Posted on 4/8/13 at 5:38 PM
SOCIAL SECURITY: INFORMATION & UPDATES Newest Annual Statistical Supplement now online
The Annual Statistical Supplement, 2012 just became available online at http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/2012/index.html. There is a massive amount of interesting information here,...
Posted on 2/7/13 at 12:36 PM
STAFF BLOG NIE ROCKS! What is the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day?
Many people confuse these two holidays. Here is some information explaining the differences from the FREE 2012 Veterans Day Teacher Resource Guide from the Department of Veterans Affairs. To download ...
Posted on 11/9/12 at 3:56 PM
NDAD INSIGHTS Benefit planned for wife, baby son of Grand Forks County sheriff's deputy injured in 2006
A November benefit is planned to help the wife and son of a Grand Forks County sheriffs deputy who himself has overcome adversity. Chris Huttons right leg was amputated below the knee after Hutton,...
Posted on 9/11/12 at 4:00 PM
Minnesota lawmakers push bill to hire more veterans 
State lawmakers want to give Minnesota businesses tax credits for hiring veterans.
By Associated Press , February 11, 2013
Film documents WW II vets’ flights to see memorial for their war
Jerry Joyce made his flight in 2009, and he still gets choked up about it. “When we left Grand Forks, there were Air Force and National Guard people there who carried our bags,” he said. “They treated us like we were really special.” That was the plan.
By Chuck Haga , February 07, 2013
Deputy veterans affairs commissioner visits with task force
There’s currently no commitment to build a veterans home here, but there is a need for one. That was the assessment of Mike Gallucci, the deputy commissioner of veterans health care at the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, at a Saturday morning meeting of the veterans home task force.
By John Hageman , February 03, 2013
VA Study: Suicide Rate Rises Among Veterans
Every day about 22 veterans in the United States kill themselves, a rate that is about 20 percent higher than the Department of Veterans Affairs' 2007 estimate, according to two-year study by a VA researcher.
By Greg Jaffe , February 02, 2013
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David Floyd, Warren MN. Letters: Don’t lump veterans with school shooters
A letter by David Floyd of Warren Minnesota on Sen. Al Franken's comments and recent school shootings.
By David Floyd , January 21, 2013
Ramsey County, Minn., to help vets in criminal trouble
Ramsey County is taking steps to make sure that military veterans who find themselves in criminal trouble can get the help they need — and get their lives back on track.
By Associated Press , January 16, 2013
Fargo VA gets $8.5 million to expand mental health services
The Fargo Veterans Affairs Health Care System will get $8.5 million in federal funding in fiscal year 2013 to expand mental health services to Fargo-area veterans.
By Helmut Schmidt , January 12, 2013
Incarcerated veterans train dogs for other vets
Hazard Wilson's new cellmate is a hairy bundle of energy whose playful zeal can't be contained by steel doors: a five-month-old golden retriever. Yardley is one of three canines assigned since September to inmates at a maximum-security prison in western Maryland for training as service dogs for disabled military veterans.
By David Dishneau , January 04, 2013
Push to help Minnesota veterans find job pays off
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National Guard officials say most of the 2,700 soldiers from the "Red Bull" Division who returned from the Mideast last spring have found work. Of the more than 500 who returned without civilian jobs, Minnesota Public Radio reports, only 35 are still looking for work.
By Minnesota Public Radio , January 03, 2013
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Daughter surprises father with medal ceremony
Two years ago, while he was vacationing at Christmas time, someone broke into Arlin Melgaard’s home. The bandit made off with nearly everything. He and his wife, Wanda, have replaced most items but one piece of his past couldn’t be replaced easily — the shadow box commemorating Melgaard’s Army and reservist career.
By Steve Wagner , December 23, 2012
Guard brings holiday cheer to ND Veterans Home
Volunteers with the North Dakota National Guard are making their annual trip to the North Dakota Veterans Home in Lisbon to show their appreciation for the men and women who served before them.
By Associated Press , December 19, 2012
Fort Snelling cemetery hosts wreath ceremony Saturday
Fort Snelling National Cemetery hosts a holiday wreath-laying ceremony to honor and remember the nation's veterans on Saturday.
By Associated Press , December 14, 2012
War-time instinct takes over in Veteran parade crash
With the thunderous crack of a freight train slamming into a parade float carrying his fellow war veterans, Sudip Bose went to work. A front-line physician in Iraq, Bose and other veterans instantly tended to the injured. They applied tourniquets and put pressure on wounds as their training and battlefield experience took over in the chaotic moments after the wreck at a railroad crossing in this West Texas city.
By Juan Carlos Illorca , November 17, 2012
Texas parade honoring war heroes ends in tragedy
Cheered on by a flag-waving crowd, a parade float filled with wounded veterans and their spouses was inching across a railroad track when the crossing gates began to lower and a freight train that seemed to come out of nowhere was suddenly bearing down on them, its horn blaring.
By Juan Carlos Llorca , November 16, 2012
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Jack Shakely, Los Angeles, column: 'Broken' GI Bill needs fixing
For-profit universities have every right to sell their educational wares, regardless of their relative merit and expense, in the marketplace. But the unintended consequences of these provisions of the Post-9/11 GI Bill breed academic failure, waste taxpayer dollars and do not accomplish the things our grateful nation intended.
By Jack Shakely , November 15, 2012
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