Virginia Organizing is Trying to Do Things Their Own Way
Originally posted on chieforganizer.org. Not too long ago Virginia Organizing, formerly the Virginia Organizing Project, celebrated its 20th anniversary of putting people together ...
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Put People Over Politics
The 2016 Virginia General Assembly convened in Richmond on Wednesday. On the agenda this year are education, transportation, changes in election laws, and of course, Medicaid expa ...
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Meeting—and Exceeding—the Clean Power Plan in Virginia (2016)
Published by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The Clean Power Plan (CPP) sets the nation’s first-ever limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants—the largest cont ...
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Corporations Avoid Doing Their Part
Originally published in The Virginian-Pilot. Duke Energy may have set a new record for bad corporate behavior — it polluted a river while dodging its taxes. Duke was fined more th ...
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Study: Medicaid Coverage For Virginia Parents Would Help Children
Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. - By not expanding Medicaid to cover working poor adults, Virginia also is shortchanging thousands of children, according to a new s ...
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Group Goes Solar to ‘Lead by Example’
Written and published by VA SUN. Virginia Organizing has a long history of working with Virginians to make positive changes in the Commonwealth. It has worked on a variety of issu ...
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Families Can’t Wait
Click here to see how much wealth is stripped from our communities by payday and car title loans since March 2015. Every day, payday and car title lenders drain $23,951,459 out of ...
Read More »Letter to the Editor: Deaf patients need special care
Originally published in the NewsLeader For the past year I have followed the progress of House Bill 1956 regarding effective communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients in ...
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Care for our Earth: Preventing Water Scarcity
How careful are we in our use of one of the Earth's most precious resource, water? If we were to experience a high category hurricane where our drinkable water supply would no lon ...
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Most of those without Medicaid are the working poor
Published in USA Today They toil in America’s fast-food restaurants, call centers and retail stores — yet as many as five million Americans remain not only poor but also uninsured ...
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