Augusta County: Black and white, and read all over
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The Augusta County that I know and love is full of contradictions, good and bad, black and white, and for the time being, read all over.
Search Results for civil rights
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Creigh Deeds: Virginia General Assembly update
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The 46-day General Assembly session is moving rapidly. Subcommittees and committees are meeting around the clock, which leaves little time for reflection.
Herring creates nation’s first attorney general animal law unit
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Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced on Thursday the designation of the nation’s first Attorney General’s Animal Law unit.
Charlottesville activist in first large U.S. delegation to Cuba since opening of relations
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The activist group CODEPINK will be hosting a “super delegation” of 150 people to Cuba to mark the recent thawing in U.S.-Cuba relations, particularly the easing of travel restrictions.
Transcript: President Obama delivers the State of the Union
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Transcript of President Obama delivering the 2015 State of the Union address to Congress.
ACLU of Virginia applauds attorney general opinion on ICE detainer requests
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Attorney General Mark Herring issued an opinion today concluding that Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests seek voluntary action by sheriffs, corrections staff, and jail authorities, and, as such, cannot be used to deny someone their liberty.
U.S. sinking into lawlessness: And why might that be?
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Conservative commentators are telling us in the wake of the senseless murders of two New York City cops on Saturday that the U.S. is about to sink into lawlessness because of the poisoned atmosphere surrounding ongoing protests of police killings of civilians in Missouri, Staten Island, Cleveland and a growing list of American cities.
Herring and CFPB take action against retailer for abusive collections practices towards servicemembers
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Attorneys General of North Carolina and Virginia took action today to protect military servicemembers from illegal debt collection practices.
Warner, Kaine hail wins for Virginia in congressional defense bill
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U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced that the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015 has cleared a key Senate hurdle and will now advance to a vote on final passage.
Protests: A waste of time?
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People are gathering in cities across the country – New York City, Washington, Berkeley – to protest decisions by grand juries in Missouri and Staten Island against bringing back indictments in cases in which cops were responsible for the deaths of unarmed petty-crime suspects.
