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Will You Help Protect Health Care?

Will You Help Protect Health Care?

When health care is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back! That’s just what we need your help with. Right now, Congress is poised to eliminate the subsidies for the Af ...

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Governor McAuliffe Signs Executive Order to Combat Discrimination in Virginia

Governor McAuliffe Signs Executive Order to Combat Discrimination in Virginia

Released by the Office of the Governor. Full release and Executive Order text found here. CHARLOTTESVILLE – Governor McAuliffe today issued Executive Order 61, which will advance ...

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Coalition: Pipeline Route Poses Landslide Risk

Coalition: Pipeline Route Poses Landslide Risk

Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. -- Federal regulators are taking a favorable view of the huge Atlantic Coast Pipeline. But research by a citizen group has found tha ...

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Virginia Beach: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

Virginia Beach: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

What: Public demonstration in support of the Affordable Care Act When: Tuesday, January 3 at 12 noon Where: "Virginia Beach Fountain" near Senator Tim Kaine's office on Central an ...

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Harrisonburg: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

Harrisonburg: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

What: Public demonstration in support of the Affordable Care Act When: Tuesday, January 3 at 4:30 p.m. Where: Court Square, Harrisonburg, Va. Harrisonburg, Va.—The Harrisonburg Ch ...

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$12 Billion in Relief to Scammed Consumers

$12 Billion in Relief to Scammed Consumers

Please read below for a message from our friends at Americans for Financial Reform. Did you know that if you have a dispute with your bank or financial company, that there’s an ag ...

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“Our Health Care is Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back.”

“Our Health Care is Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back.”

Listen to the audio of this story at WVTF Radio Word that the Affordable Care Act is under attack has its supporters in Virginia planning a series of protests around the state.  R ...

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Protecting and Improving Health Care

Protecting and Improving Health Care

In the coming Congressional session in the new year, it is expected that a lot of time will be spent on health care with a special focus on repealing and possibly replacing the Af ...

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Federal Budget Rules Could Bring Automatic Social Security, Medicare Cuts

Federal Budget Rules Could Bring Automatic Social Security, Medicare Cuts

Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. — New budget rules proposed for Congress could bring deep, automatic cuts to benefit programs for seniors that had been exempt from ...

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Editorial: A Better Choice for Student Discipline

Editorial: A Better Choice for Student Discipline

Published in the Free Lance-Star THE REPORT presented a disconcerting situation. Virginia, more than any other state, turns students with disciplinary issues in school over to pol ...

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