The state of Minnesota will put up $38 million to divide among 158 victims as compensation for losses sustained in last year’s collapse of a bridge under Interstate 35 in Minneapolis. Thirteen were killed in the accident, which was the result of structural defects. Law buffs might reasonably wonder why victims of the levee collapse in New Orleans aren’t entitled to similar relief. (more…)
May 2008
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Thu 8 May 2008
Millions for Bridge Collapse. Zero for Levee Failure
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Tue 6 May 2008
Alabama Paper Reports Yet Another Iraq Vet Suicide — With Mother Watching
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[From the journal Editor and Publisher]
By
Greg Mitchell
Published: May 06, 2008 9:30 PM ET updated Tuesday
NEW YORK As the scandal of suicide attempts
by Iraq veterans expands — in the face of Veterans Administration
denials — another horrific case has emerged, once again only gaining
attention because of a local newspaper. E&P has been tracking these
accounts for almost five years and only recently has the problem, with
an estimated 1,000 attempts a month now reported, gained wide media,
and official, attention.
The latest story came Saturday in a story by Patrick McCreless in The Cullman Times of Cullman, Ala.
The headline is similar to so many others lately: “Family pushing for changes after soldier’s suicide.”
It tells how one Dorothy Screws “witnessed her only
son, U.S. Army Pvt. Tommie Edward Jones, commit suicide right before
her eyes six weeks ago in Colorado. She says the Army, which promised
to be there for Screws and her family to deal with the loss, has yet to
provide assistance. (more…)