Sea-Level Report Cards
From the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. Want to know how sea level in your area is changing due to global warming and other factors? Our 'report cards' can help. Updated b ...
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Chairperson Del McWhorter on the Tax Scam
From the Daily Progress. If you are struggling to get by, even a small tax cut makes a difference. If the Trump tax cut were just a boost in pay for workers, no one would be compl ...
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Virginia Organizing’s Chapters Stand Up for Immigrant Rights
All of our chapters are working this month on immigration reform. We want to see Congress pass a clean Dream Act to protect recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival ...
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Lisa Taylor – February/March 2018 Leader of the Month
Lisa Taylor’s parents were from Lynchburg, but she grew up in New York while her father went to Cornell University. She came to live in Lynchburg more recently. Her son has grown ...
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Stop S. 2155–No More Help for Predatory Lenders!
From our friends at @StopTheDebtTrap: With all the news to worry about these days, Virginia voters might not have noticed our two U.S. Senators getting behind a major new bank giv ...
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Senator Warner Should Reconsider Predatory Lending Bill
Charlottesville leader, Valerie Washington, has published this fierce op-ed about predatory lending in the Roanoke Times. We hope Senator Mark Warner will listen! To contact his o ...
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Fredericksburg Leaders Question Senator Tim Kaine at Library Community Conversation
Virginia Organizing's Fredericksburg Chapter, the Spotsylvania NAACP, and other groups met with Senator Tim Kaine in a Community Conversation at the Salem Church Branch Library in ...
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South Hampton Roads Chapter Leaders Visit General Assembly
Leaders from the South Hampton Roads Chapter visited their legislators in the General Assembly in January. Every chapter will make these visits to advocate for our four top priori ...
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Without Medicaid expansion, Danville resident caught in middle
Published by Danville Register and Bee. Danville resident and cancer survivor Margaret Lipford said she started paying into the system more than 30 years ago. For decades, she wor ...
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Northam, House Republicans bide time on Medicaid expansion, but Senate to open debate
Published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Virginia Senate is about to reignite the public debate over Medicaid expansion, but Gov. Ralph Northam and House Republicans aren’t r ...
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