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The Biggest Problem With The Obamacare Rollout
The Biggest Problem With Obamacare’s Rollout Is Being Caused Intentionally by Republicans by Joshua Holland The media have been buzzing with stories — many of them wildly exaggerated — of people facing higher premiums as a result of Obamacare. But there’s a story...
Deeds’ Family Tragedy Highlights Virginia’s Warped Budget Priorities
via Blue Virginia The tragedy involving State Senator Creigh Deeds and his son Gus is horrible enough as it is. But then, we heard the infuriating news that Gus - who apparently had a history of struggling with mental illness - was "evaluated Monday at Bath...
How Twitter changed the Virginia AG election
By Corey Hutchins CHARLESTON, SC — A week and a half after Election Day, the outcome of Virginia’s race for attorney general remains not quite settled—despite a tug-of-war in the headlines that have declared, at various times, Republican Mark Obenshain and Democrat...
Sixth Senate District Democratic Nominating Caucus
RICHMOND -- DPVA Chair Charniele Herring released this statement following the results in today's Sixth Senate District Democratic nominating caucus: "I want to congratulate my colleague Delegate Lynwood Lewis on his victory in today's Sixth Senate District Democratic...
Medicare For All
We won’t go back. Republicans are opening new fronts in the war on healthcare, and rewriting their battle plans for the 2014 elections with a focus on opposition to the president’s reforms. But we won’t go back to letting insurance companies deny coverage to people...
Ethics, Schmethics
Virginians deserve an electoral process that they can have faith in, and, once again, Ken Cuccinelli and his pal Mark Obenshain undermine the integrity of our government.. [googleapps domain="docs" dir="a/localcause.net/file/d/0B2FFEYgvKWZYVTdPRDR4YUhGdFU/preview"...
Something Stinks in Virginia
SPN: The $83 Million Right-Wing Empire Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government The State Policy Network (SPN) is a web of so-called “think tanks” that push a right-wing agenda in every state across the country. Although many of SPN’s member organizations claim...
Obama to push administrative fix for insurance cancellations
(CNN) - President Barack Obama will lay out an administrative solution to address the problem of people getting cancellation notices from their health insurance providers due to the Affordable Care Act, a senior Democratic source familiar with the plan tells CNN's...
CBS: Journalistic Malpractice
Sorry, CBS, but that section B, page 6 apology tacked into the Andy Rooney position of last week's 60 Minutes? It doesn't even begin to address the problem. Let's review.. You paraded an absolute fabrication in front of the world and gave assurances that it was the...
Cartograms Reveal the Demographics Behind Democratic Sweep
From Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest Some comical conservative misunderstandings over the population density of Virginia counties have yielded a positive result: a new spate of attention to cartograms, a type of map that, by deliberately deforming geographic...
