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Be suspicious if you hear ‘hollow force’

Published February 11th, 2012 - 12:05AM

The Congressional Research Service has a message for those who suggest planned defense budget cuts and military compensation curbs will return America to the “hollow force” era of the 1970s.

Investors must act in their own best interest

Published February 7th, 2012 - 6:41AM

No one cares about your money more than you do.

We don’t have to be at the mercy of challenges

Published February 5th, 2012 - 7:50AM

The saying “everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it” is as applicable, and potentially misleading, in community economic development as it is in meteorology.

Natural gas promise could easily fall short

Published January 29th, 2012 - 7:36AM

As you’re sitting there in your dark house, wondering if the reading on the thermostat inside will fall as fast as the freezing rain outside, the energy issue most on your mind at the moment is not the future of America’s portfolio of generating, transportation fuel and heating resources.

‘Underwater’ loans force military families apart

Published January 7th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Many military homeowners who saw their homes plummet in value in the financial crisis still can’t get relief from “underwater” mortgages that leave families owing more to loan servicers than their homes are worth.

Lawmakers waste billions fumbling ‘doc-rate fix’

Published December 31st, 2011 - 12:05AM

Congress has known for a decade that the formula it set in 1997 for adjusting physician payments under Medicare – and by extension the fees paid to civilian doctors under Tricare, the military’s health insurance program – is seriously flawed and can’t be allowed to take effect.

Housing allowance rates to go up an average of 2 percent

Published December 17th, 2011 - 12:05AM

Basic Allowance for Housing – or BAH – paid to a million service members living off base in stateside areas, will rise an average of 2 percent Jan. 1.

National Guard deeds at home, war, lead to Joint Chiefs of Staff seat

Published December 10th, 2011 - 12:05AM

Congress is about to elevate the position of chief of the National Guard Bureau to full membership on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joining the JSC chairman, vice chairman and four service branch chiefs as top military advisers to the president and his national security team.

VA staff shortages still affecting care, PTSD experts say

Published December 3rd, 2011 - 12:05AM

Despite adding billions of dollars for mental health care to Department of Veterans Affairs budgets the last four years, and the hiring of 7,000 more mental health professionals at VA clinics and hospitals, many veterans with severe combat-related stress still face long waits to get the care they need.

Amid battles to protect benefits, gays seek equality

Published November 26th, 2011 - 12:05AM

The failure by the congressional supercommittee to deal with the nation’s debt crisis leaves the Department of Defense facing automatic $55-billion-a-year spending cuts from 2013 through 2021. This is in addition to defense cuts of near-equal size already planned across the same decade.

Military of two minds about work of supercommittee

Published November 19th, 2011 - 12:05AM

The supercommittee that Congress and President Obama created in August to make tough budget choices and slow America’s runaway debt has left military people confused and divided over whether to cheer for its success or pray for its failure as its Thanksgiving deadline nears.

Debt panel likes ‘chain’ COLA; ‘Tricare Prime’ cut offered

Published November 5th, 2011 - 12:05AM

A congressional supercommittee tasked to slow the nation’s rising debt appears to have reached consensus on dampening future cost-of-living adjustments for federal entitlement programs, including military retirement, through use of a “chain-weighted” Consumer Price Index.

Business board’s ‘radical’ retirement plan blasted

Published October 29th, 2011 - 12:05AM

The Defense Business Board’s proposal to shift the military to a cheaper “contributory” retirement plan is “radical” and was released publicly without due regard for the impact it would have on troop morale in wartime.

‘There is a bias toward invisible wounds, injuries’

Published October 1st, 2011 - 12:05AM

Sixty-six percent of the most seriously wounded soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq have “invisible” injuries of brain trauma or post-traumatic stress, which their families and society will be dealing with at great cost for decades, said Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff.

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