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article thumbnail Consumer Voices Missing from VA Healthcare Panel
Tuesday, 24 August 2010 | Olympia Meola | Richmond Times Dispatch

The composition of Virginia's new health-care advisory panel is causing some consumer advocates heartburn. Gov. Bob McDonnell's council is tasked with helping the state prepare...

Afghanistan/Iraq/Iran

article thumbnail Norman Solomon - Progressives and Obama
Friday, 09 July 2010 | Real News Network

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Finance Reform

article thumbnail The New Finance Bill: A Mountain of Legislative Paper, a Molehill of Reform
Friday, 16 July 2010 | Robert Reich | Robert Reich's Blog

As if to prove him wrong, Goldman Sachs simultaneously announced it had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to pay $550 million to settle federal claims it misled investor — a sum...

Restore Our Vote

article thumbnail An End to Prison Gerrymandering
Tuesday, 24 August 2010 | NY Times Editorial

Gov. David Paterson of New York took a stand for electoral fairness earlier this month when he signed legislation that bans prison-based gerrymandering - the cynical practice of counting...

Citizens United

article thumbnail Citizens United against Citizens United
Friday, 16 April 2010 | Public Citizen

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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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Environment

article thumbnail Cuccinelli Loses Round 1 on Climate Change
Monday, 16 August 2010 | Glen Besa | VA Sierra Club

  By now you may have heard the US EPA has dismissed VA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's petition challenging the EPA's efforts to regulate greenhouse gases. ...

Accountability

article thumbnail Obama Nominee for Justice Withdraws
Friday, 09 April 2010 | Associated Press

The Senate Judiciary Committee had recommended Johnsen's confirmation on party-line votes. But several Republicans objected to her sharp criticisms of terrorist interrogation policies under...

 

Net Neutrality

article thumbnail Internet Freedom and Innovation at Risk
Sunday, 11 April 2010 | ACLU Newsletter

 
 
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article thumbnailBooks on Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
08 March 2010
To learn more about the history and societal problems of ex-felon disenfrancisement the following books are available from Amazon.com. The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felonsby Elizabeth HullIn fourteen states some or all former prisoners who have completed their sentences, their paroles, and the...

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article thumbnailDemocracy Restoration Act of 2009
24 February 2010
Democracy Restoration Act of 2009 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless, at the time of the election, such individual is serving a felony sentence...

In the General Assembly

article thumbnailElectronic Privacy Law in Need of Update
11 April 2010
In 1986, there was no World Wide Web, nobody carried a cell phone, and the president was a man born in 1911. That was the year that the statute that protects the privacy of your electronic life—email, search terms, cloud computing, cell phone location records, postings to Facebook—was passed...