by MCDC | Jan 23, 2014 | Civil Rights, Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia Office of the Attorney General ATTORNEY GENERAL HERRING CHANGES VIRGINIA’S LEGAL POSITION IN MARRIAGE EQUALITY CASE RICHMOND — Attorney General Mark R. Herring today changed Virginia’s legal position in Bostic v. Rainey, siding...
by MCDC | Jan 22, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Minimum Wage
With more than 46 million people living below the poverty line, struggling to survive on $19,530 or less for a family of three, and with more than one in three Americans living on less than twice that amount, scrimping to pay for basics, this country will require a...
by MCDC | Jan 22, 2014 | Environment
By day, Shamley is a consultant and natural resources coordinator for Arizona’s Apache County. But by night, he’s a conspiracy theorist who until recently hosted an online radio show called The Hour of the Time, during which he speculates that UFO...
by MCDC | Jan 21, 2014 | Ethics, Virginia
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were indicted today by a federal grand jury on 14 counts stemming from the first couple’s acceptance and solicitation of thousands in gifts and loans from a wealthy businessman during McDonnell’s term. The...
by MCDC | Jan 21, 2014 | Action Alerts, Citizens United, Employment, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Immigration Reform, Minimum Wage, Privacy
For decades, one shadowy right-wing group has helped powerful corporations introduce and pass legislation quietly in nearly every state. They write entire bills from start to finish in a massive coordinated effort to push their conservative agenda at the state level....
