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Washington County Chapter Opposes Fracking

Washington County Chapter Opposes Fracking

Published by WJHL News Channel 11 on May 16, 2014 WASHINGTON COUNTY, VA (WJHL) - By Allie HInds, Reporter Some Southwest Virginia landowners say discussions detailing the possibil ...

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Landowners voicing concerns on proposed natural gas drilling

Landowners voicing concerns on proposed natural gas drilling

Published by Bristol Herald Courier on May 9, 2014 By ALLIE ROBINSON GIBSON | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER BRISTOL, Va. — Some landowners whose properties lie in the proposed natural ga ...

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What the Doctor Ordered

What the Doctor Ordered

Crossposted from The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis By Massey Whorley Hundreds of lives across Virginia could be saved if lawmakers close the coverage gap by extending ...

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Forum Supports Expansion Of Program Serving Low-Income Families, Individuals

Forum Supports Expansion Of Program Serving Low-Income Families, Individuals

Published on January 29, 2014 HARRISONBURG — Witnessing a public forum on the debate over expanding Medicaid that doesn’t involve a state lawmaker is a rarity. But for the four pe ...

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Pressure and Passivity on Immigration

Pressure and Passivity on Immigration

Originally published by the Editorial Board of The New York Times on November 26, 2013Click here to view oiginal articlePresident Obama made the case for immigration reform again ...

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Respect, Not Amnesty, Is the Goal

Respect, Not Amnesty, Is the Goal

By Kiersten Rosetto Published in the Daily News Record on November 9, 2013 On Oct. 5, a group of around 200 people gathered at Court Square to celebrate The Na­tional Day of Digni ...

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47,000 Reasons to Expand Medicaid

47,000 Reasons to Expand Medicaid

Published by the Virginian-Pilot on November 7, 2013 The financial case for states to expand Medicaid, as provided through the 2010 Affordable Care Act, has been well established. ...

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Illinois Democrat makes immigration pitch in Virginia

Illinois Democrat makes immigration pitch in Virginia

By Mary Orndorff Troyan, USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/08/26/gutierrez-immigration-virginia-goodlatte/2704081/ HARRISONBURG, Va. -- The battle over im ...

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Slings and arrows of immigration

Slings and arrows of immigration

By Carlos Campo The Virginian-Pilot © July 24, 2013 "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." It has been many years since I first read that line from "Hamlet" as an undergra ...

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Immigration reform in the real world

Immigration reform in the real world

Virginian-Pilot http://hamptonroads.com/2013/07/immigration-reform-real-world The U.S. Senate's bipartisan approval last month of a sweeping overhaul of the nation's broken immigr ...

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