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Court Throws Out AG UVA Suit

Monday, 30 August 2010 | ACLU Virginia

article thumbnail ACLU of Virginia filed amicus, urged UVA to fight AG's demands Charlottesville, VA- An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge today ruled that the University of Virginia  is...
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Rights Groups Ask Court to Reject AG's Demand for Records of University of Virginia Climate Science...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 | ACLU Virginia

article thumbnail Amicus brief supports university's efforts to protect academic freedom Oral arguments in case to take place in Charlottesville on Friday Charlottesville, VA--Four...
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Jeff Barnett Seeks PDA VA Endorsement

Monday, 16 August 2010 | Andrea Miller

article thumbnail   Jeff Barnett is running for U.S. House of Representatives in the Virginia 10th District; Jeff is currently the Democratic nominee and he is seeking a PDA Virginia State...
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Rick Waugh Seeks PDA National Endorsement

Thursday, 05 August 2010 | Rick Waugh for Congress

article thumbnail Candidate Rick Waugh has requested National endorsement for his U.S. House of Representatives race against Republican incumbent Eric Cantor. On Sunday, August 2, 2010 Rick received the...
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Obama Administration Applies Stupak Amendment to High Risk Pools

Friday, 16 July 2010 | Jessica Arons

article thumbnail PCIPs are temporary health insurance pools that states or the federal government must establish or expand in every state to cover people who do not currently qualify for individual health insurance...
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Virginia pilot program adds Amtrak train to link Richmond and the District

Friday, 09 July 2010 | Jennifer Buske | Washington Post

article thumbnail Operated by Amtrak and funded by the commonwealth, the train will start July 20, leaving Richmond at 7 a.m. and stopping at Ashland, Fredericksburg, Quantico, Woodbridge and Alexandria before...
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IN DEFENSE OF HELEN THOMAS - on apologizing to apologists

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 | Paul Jay

article thumbnail Helen Thomas is the dean of the White House Press corp.  She has a fifty-year history of tough-minded journalism and is one of the very, very few journalists in the mainstream press who has had...
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ACLU Threatens Legal Challenge to Anti-Solicitation Ordinance Proposed by Herndon Town Council

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 | ACLU

article image Herndon, VA -- The ACLU of Virginia today informed members of Herndon's Town Council that the organization is prepared to mount a court challenge if the town passes a proposed anti-solicitation...
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New York Times Hails Webb Criminal Justice Commission

Tuesday, 11 May 2010 | Sen. James Webb (VA)

article thumbnail Introduced by Senator Webb in March 2009, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act creates a blue-ribbon bipartisan commission charged with undertaking an 18-month comprehensive review of...
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  • Healthcare Advocates Rally at Congressman's Office

    For the third day in a row, healthcare reform held the front page of the Petersburg Progress Index. Late yesterday Congressman J. Randy Forbes announced another telephone healthcare Town Hall. COLONIAL HEIGHTS - Chester resident Beth Kimbriel, a suppor...
  • Town hall focuses on health care system ills

    For the second day in a row the Health Reform side of Healthcare held the front page of the Petersburg Progress Index. PETERSBURG - Opponents of health care reform have been trying to scare the public with stories of death panels and government bureauc...
  • Moran Town Hall

    The town hall meeting last night (August 25) with Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th CD) and Howard Dean in Reston, Virginia was attended by over 3000 people. While Randall Terry and his right-to-life crew and other assorted health care reform opponents trie...
  • Weiner: Senate healthcare deal could cost 100 House votes

    A healthcare reform deal abandoning a public (or "government-run") option for consumers could cost as many as 100 Democratic votes in the House, one House Democratic lawmaker warned Monday. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) asserted that rumored c...
  • An Hour with Dr. Margaret Flowers

    On Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Dr. Margaret Flowers, MD Chair of Physicians for a National Health Plan and member of the Baucus 8, will appear "live" on back-to-back radio talk shows hosted by Rebecca Faris. Hear the simulcast from your comput...
  • August Healthcare Actions

    Visit your Congressman's office. Ask to speak with him or his health care aide. You will ask for 2 things 1) that he vote for the Weiner single payer amendment on the House floor. 2) that he contact Speaker Pelosi and Steny Hoyer to urge them to r...
  • Faint Praise

      Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect Posted: August 2, 2009 09:09 PM Huffington Post President Obama wanted health insurance reform in the worst way. And at the rate things are going, he is likely to get it. Let'...
  • Health Plan Opponents Make Voices Heard

    By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/health/policy/04townhalls.html?_r=1&th&emc=th Senator Arlen Specter and the health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, were heckled and booed in Phila...

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