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Mapping the Sequester’s Impact on Low-Income Housing
In April, Doug Rice, senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, released a paper that described some of the ways people would be affected by sequestration cuts to local housing agency budgets, including: up to 140,000 fewer…
BREAKING:
El Burro Sabe Más Que Tú
"If Republicans in the House of Representatives vote against the immigration reform legislation that was recently approved by the Senate — or if they prevent it from coming to a vote at all — they will lose the presidential election in 2016. It will not even matter...
Crossing the Ethical Plane
A prominent local Republican is calling for Governor Bob McDonnell to resign. Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, and the former spokesman for the Republican Party of Virginia. He says the ongoing gift scandal shows that the...
Jackson Again Fails To Properly Disclose Donations
For the second time since his May nomination as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, E.W. Jackson has failed to properly disclose donations to his campaign by the deadline set by state law, according to state election officials. By 5 p.m. Monday, the...
Mayors Against Illegal Guns Applauds Increase in Funding
Senate-Requested Funding Represents Substantial Increase Over Current Program, Fulfills Request of Hundreds of Mayors Nationwide to Help Reduce Gun Violence NEW YORK, July 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — After the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee…
Filibuster Fight About Core Values — And It’s Not Over
Filibuster Fight About Core Values — And It’s Not Over (via LA Progressive) A deal over the “filibuster” was tentatively reached in the Senate Tuesday, but forget all the insider talk about “nuclear options” and “recess appointments”: This isn't a story about process....
An Impertinent Question
By Robert Reich Permit me an impertinent question (or three). Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people sought to systematically destroy the U.S. government by (1) finding and bankrolling new candidates pledged to shrinking and dismembering it; (2)...
Trust
Shirley Keene, a landowner from Raven, VA, is fighting against Ken Cuccinelli and out-of-state energy companies over royalties owed her for gas extracted from her property. Recently, a federal judge said she was "shocked" by the help Attorney General Cuccinelli's...
Cuccinelli’s Cowardly Inaction
As attorney general, Cuccinelli last year declined to join a majority of his state counterparts in support of the Violence Against Women Act; he was among only three who didn't sign a letter imploring Congress to reauthorize the legislation first enacted in 1994. In a...
