Sandra Cook: End the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy
This weekend the Senate will finally be voting on the Bush tax cuts. This should not be a controversial vote for our leaders in the Senate. In fact, this is the first issue of the lame duck session where the public is overwhelming in agreement. A CBS poll this week found that only 26 percent of [...]
Virginia Organizing: Taking issues to action
You’re mad as hell, and you’re not going to take it anymore. What makes America America is how we take our frustrations to action. “The role that we play is helping citizens be able to know enough about what bothers them to be able to verbalize that to the power-brokers,” said Janice “Jay” Johnson, the [...]
Read my lips? Candidates debate taxes
Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Carl Tate looks at it as reinforcement. “It reinforces my promise to the citizens of Staunton not to vote to raise their taxes,” said Tate, a candidate for Staunton City Council, who made news in his upstart campaign with his April 8 announcement that he had signed the Taxpayer [...]
The better budget approach: Zero-based, or results-based?
Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Mike Harris has tried to seize the momentum in the marquee race in the upcoming May 4 local elections with a proposal that revolutionized government budgeting 40 years ago. It’s called the zero-based budget, and the idea is that budget writers start their work on fiscal plans with the [...]
What happened to tax reform?
Special Report by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net The push toward tax reform that caught up in its inner workings the sitting governor and a future governor among its bipartisan leaders fell surprisingly silent after 2004, much like the tree in the woods with no one there to witness if it actually makes a sound.
The AFP Show: Tuesday, March 30
Hosted by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Today’s AFP Show features an interview with AFP editor Chris Graham and economist David Shreve. Shreve joins the show to talk about a report released Tuesday by United for a Fair Economy and the Virginia Organizing Project looking at what states should do in terms of fiscal policy to [...]
Local officials back jobs program
Staff Report News tips: freepress2@ntelos.net As U.S. mayors gathered in Washington this week to meet with the Obama administration about unemployment and the economy, Virginia local government officials and community leaders are calling for the creation of a Community Jobs program. The jobs program would provide funding to localities across the country to create [...]
Vigil on health care Tuesday in Harrisonburg
Staff Report News Tips: freepress2@ntelos.net Local members of the Virginia Organizing Project are hosting a health-care vigil at Court Square in Harrisonburg Tuesday evening. The vigil is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on the east steps of the Rockingham County Courthouse in Downtown Harrisonburg. The vigil will shine a spotlight on the thousands of Americans [...]
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