Care for our Earth: Pressure from Dominion = Contaminated Water
Regional residents are currently faced with the issue of the coal ash disposal in Chesapeake. Coal ash is what is left after coal is burned in coal-powered plants. In previous dec ...
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Cook: Warner is betting on Americans
Published in The Roanoke Times Sandra A. Cook | Cook is a member of the Virginia Organizing State Governing Board. There have been times when I sat across the table from U.S. Sen. ...
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Opinion/Letter: Ashamed of opposition to voting rights
Letter to the Editor Published in The Daily Progress On April 22, my opinion of Virginia vastly improved with the governor's executive order that allowed more than 200,000 former ...
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Sea Rise Threat to Norfolk, Atlantic and Gulf Military Bases
Published by Public News Service Climate change represents a serious problem for U.S. coastal military bases - especially in and around Norfolk, according to a recent study. The r ...
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Updated Restoration of Civil Rights Process Announced
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced a new process for restoration of civil rights on Monday, August 22 to comply with the Supreme Court of Virginia orders on July 22, 2016 ...
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When suspensions weren’t working, this high school opted for a new approach
Published by The Washington Post Donnell Honesty can’t remember what the fight was about or even quite how it started. He was a junior at D.C.’s Ballou High School in 2015 when an ...
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Virginia Organizing Joins 280 Consumer Groups to Restrict Forced Arbitration
Charlottesville, Va.—Virginia Organizing joined 280 consumer rights, civil rights, labor, community, and non-profit organizations to emphasize strong support for the Consumer Fina ...
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Restoration Update!
Today, Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that he restored the rights of nearly 13,000 individuals after the Supreme Court of Virginia ordered the Department of Elections to cance ...
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Virginia’s McAuliffe to announce restoration of voting rights to 13,000 felons
Published by the Washington Post Gov. Terry McAuliffe will announce Monday that he has restored voting rights to 13,000 felons on a case-by-case basis after Republicans and state ...
Read More »Governor McAuliffe Announces Utility-Scale Solar Project in Northampton County
~20-megawatt facility to provide enough power to supply over 3,000 households~ Released by Governor Terry McAuliffe RICHMOND – Governor McAuliffe announced today that Hecate Energ ...
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