, early inperson voting was offered for a total of 110 hours and only at one location. This year if you do the math at all 3 locations there will be a combined total of 725 hours of early voting. The expanded hours are possible after a federal court ruling that struck down limits on early voting. Under that law, early voting could not have begun until oct. 29 first time the city has had more than one location for early absentee voting. The price tag for the 2 satellite locations 240 thousand dollars. Ann sterling todays tmj 4. Ann 9. 4249 43f if you decide to vote early absentee, you must bring a photo i d with you. More local news. The Milwaukee County Sheriffs Office says a suspected road rage incident behind shooting of a baby girl yesterday on i43 near glendale. Police say a suspect fired a gun into the vehicle. The bullet went through a rear door and grazed the baby. Milwaukee police are investigating a shooting they say happened during a drug deal. Police say a 30yearold man was
It continues to be sluggish and i cannot give you a reason why that occurred. We are aware that mortgage credit is very tight for a wide range of borrowers and that maybe part of it. We hear about supply constraints builders are facing but i have to say i am surprised. What more do you think the fed can do to help stimulate recovery in the housing sector both for those homeowners who are upside down in the values and those to help new people qualify for homes. Housing prices are continuing to increase. And they have increased substantially and in the markets that saw the worst booms and bust that is the case. So in nevada there are a large fraction of homeowners underwater but if you look at the numbers just the increase in house prices we have seen and i think that is in part reflecting or monetary policy, maybe fewers barrowers are under water. The numbers have declined and i know the Las Vegas Area was one of hardest hit areas. I think we will see greater progress eventually in the
Become central. The veteran needs to be seen today, we have failed that veteran. You are looking for different ways i think we will be looking at different ways to evaluate timeliness of care, a combination of patient satisfaction, veterans waiting too long and seeing that number coming down steadily. And then as we have the system could ability to do things like you see in the private sector, metrics like the third next available appointment which gives you some gauge of the capacity of the system to be able to handle that veteran as they come in. Today at least we are able to look at same day appointments. Roughly in the primary care area we see about 100,000 veterans on the same day basis every single month in primary care. Thats coming to me, suggests that there is capacity being maintained to take care of that veteran who cannot wait 14 days or 21 days or 30 days. Okay. Health care from the private sector does play a Critical Role in making sure that veterans get the care in a tim
On the veterans we are here to serve. Fifth, the va has failed to hold people accountable. And last we lack physicians, space, staff, Information Technology and perchase care funding to meet the current demand for Timely Health care. Furthermore we dont have the capacity to quantify the staffing because we have not built resources from the bottom up. We have instead managed to a budget number. As a consequence of all of the failures the trust that is the foundation of all we do, the trust of the veterans we serve and the trust of the American People and their elected representatives has eroded. We will have to earn that trust back through deliberate and Decisive Action and by creating an open, transparent approach to deal with veterans. To begin restoring trust we focused on six key priorities. Get veterans off the wait list and into clinics. Fix systemic scheduling problems, address cultural issues, hold people accountable, establish regular and ongoing disclosures of information, and
To va asserted reaching down the organization to get Additional Information. I think your sense is an accurate one. Historically they have operated in an insular organization. Part of what we have been doing is dismantling a lot of those barriers. Since my first day as acting secretary, every single morning at 9 00 a. M. We have something called access stand up. Senior leaders from across vha and the department up in our integrated Operations Center and bore into data are round access to care. This status, what are we doing, many contacts, appointments, the wait times, the status on many of these different initiatives i have alluded to in my opening statement. It is just part of what were putting in place. This young guy right here and as said before if i was half as smart as philippi would be darn smart. He has been doing an awful lot of the work to put in place the kind of Management System the youre talking about some of the and not just relying on by chance the information filters