GE15 army veteran candidates don’t represent any associations, clubs
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A group of army veterans have said they will contest in the 15th general election as individuals, not representing any veterans associations or clubs.
This comes after the Veterans Affairs Department warned that the government could suspend or deregister such associations for partaking in political activities.
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Appeals board itself had conceded its judge made mistakes on the case.
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A federal court has overruled an administrative judge on a case with significant implications for federal employee protections, saying the judge s errors in his initial ruling were so severe he should be removed from the case entirely.
The case,
Tao v. Merit Systems Protection Board, positioned the Office of Special Counsel the agency tasked with enforcing federal whistleblower protection laws against the MSPB ruling, and eventually led the board to argue its own judge had erred. OSC had filed a brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit saying the judge’s ruling risked leaving federal workers uncertain about their rights and “vulnerable to retaliation explicitly prohibited by the statute.”
Editorial Roundup: Illinois
Chicago Sun-Times. May 10, 2021.
Editorial: Catholic religious orders must come clean about abusive clergy
Despite public pressure, some orders still resist telling the full truth about sexual abuse allegations, as the Sun-Times’ Robert Herguth has reported.
A clerical sex abuse scandal has rocked the Catholic Church for decades now, and to our way of thinking, full disclosure is the only way for the church to put the scandal completely to rest.
Every independent religious order must follow the lead of the rest of the Church and come clean about abusive priests in their ranks.
A number of those independent orders among them the Jesuits and Carmelites have made the only correct moral and ethical choice. They now publicly disclose the names of clergy who have been credibly accused of abusing minors. But other independent orders have stubbornly resisted full disclosure of the details regarding abusive clergy, as the Sun-Times’ Robert Herguth ha
An Update from Federal Officials on Efforts to Combat COVID-19”
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COVID-19 Variants and Evolving Research Needs”
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Supporting Disabled Veterans: The State of Claims Processing During and After COVID-19”
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Mental Health Emergencies: Building a Robust Crisis Response System”
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