by MCDC | Oct 16, 2013 | Ethics, GOP Shutdown, Issues, Virginia
A tip-of-the-hat to Jean K. for recommending this story to us Like most Americans, Sister Simone Campbell is feeling desperate about the current stand-off and shut down of the government. So Sister Simone along with an interfaith group of religious leaders decided to...
by MCDC | Oct 16, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, GOP Shutdown, Sequester, Virginia
by Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON — Two Virginia congressmen fumed Tuesday about the damage being done to their state by the ongoing government shutdown and laid the blame squarely on a fellow Virginian, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R), for preventing...
by MCDC | Oct 14, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
By Rosalind S. Helderman and Carol D. Leonnig A wealthy political donor has told federal prosecutors that he believed that Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell was helping his company get state research funding at the same time the executive was providing McDonnell’s...
by MCDC | Oct 13, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, GOP Shutdown, Sequester, Video
By Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company Even if the threat of terrorists went away, none of those bold projects Glenn Greenwald described as defining American greatness would happen today. Our government is paralyzed and dysfunctional, and it’s getting worse than ever....
by MCDC | Oct 12, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, GOP Shutdown, Issues, Video
by @alexandergmoore The United States is the only democracy in the world where the legislature debates whether it should pay the bills it has already incurred. Like the Affordable Care Act, the looming issue of the debt limit is pretty confusing. Though it soaks up...
