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Oracle’s Troubled Effort to Create the Pentagon, VA Electronic Health Record System
By Ashley Stewart and Blake Dodge On May 20,, 2024 Larry Ellison’s vision for the future of medicine crystallized for him in a doctor’s office. Oracle’s billionaire cofounder needed medication to help manage his cholesterol. He said his “very fancy doctor,” a molecular biologist, prescribed a statin called Crestor. The choice was informed by Ellison’s age, sex, ethnicity, and family…
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Coast Guard Tweaks Tattoo Policy to Allow Bigger Designs on Hands, Ink Behind Both Ears
By Patricia Kime On May 15, 2024 Coast Guard members can now have larger tattoos on their hands and one behind each ear under a new policy update, the service announced Tuesday. The new policy allows for single tattoos on the back of both hands up to 2 ½ inches in any direction, according to a…
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Colorado Officials Fight Military’s Attempt to Move Air National Guard Members to US Space Force
By Nick Coltrain On May 20, 2024 The U.S. military’s proposal to unilaterally move potentially hundreds of Colorado Air National Guard members involved in space operations to the Space Force is facing pushback from Gov. Jared Polis and most of the state’s congressional delegation. The proposal, which would affect guard units in several states, is aimed at…
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Officers with Higher Rank Get Better Care than Those with Lower Ranks at Military Hospitals, Study Finds
By Patricia Kime On May 17, 2024 Officers who outrank their military physicians and personnel who have been recently promoted receive better attention and care in Defense Department health facilities than lower-ranking service members, new research on military emergency room visits has found. The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, also found racial bias in…
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Homeless Vets Find Housing on Old Walter Reed Grounds, Regardless of Discharge Status
By Richard Sisk On May 20, 2024 Former Army National Guard Spc. Donald Carey, a Desert Storm veteran, had reached the point in his long bout with homelessness where he was telling himself and anyone who would listen: “Just get me off the street. Gotta’ get off the street.” Former Marine Lance Cpl. Byron Malcolm Ballard, who served a harrowing…
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Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops
By Rebecca Kheel On May 13, 2024 A key House panel is endorsing a 4.5% across-the-board pay raise for service members on top of a 15% raise for junior enlisted troops in a must-pass defense policy bill that was released Monday. The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense…
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‘Degree Forward’ is Making College More Accessible for Detroiters
By Micah Walker, BridgeDetroit | April 30, 2024 Andrew Linton’s college journey has been more than 10 years in the making. After high school, the native Detroiter went off to Virginia to attend Hampton University, but left school due to a family emergency. Linton then spent time working in Washington D.C. before he returned to Detroit in 2021…
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AP African American Studies Connects Michigan Students to Their Own History While They Make it
By Hannah Dellinger | April 29, 2024 As a crackling recording of Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech resonated in the background, eight students took their seats in a classroom at East Kentwood High School. They carried themselves with purpose. The seniors were not only there to learn history. They showed up to make it. The…
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Carroll ISD to Challenge Title IX Changes Protecting LGBTQ+ Students
KERA | By Juan Salinas II Published May 17, 2024 at 5:00 AM CDT Carroll ISD plans to challenge the Biden administration’s recent changes to Title IX that extend protections to LGBTQ+ students. The Carroll school board voted unanimously Wednesday night to “proceed with litigation against all necessary parties related to proposed changes to Title 9 and…
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