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Earth Talk: Threats to air quality
The main threats to local air quality across the United States (as well as most everywhere else) remain smog and particulate pollution, which combined or acting alone trigger millions of hospital visits and health complications for citizens every year.

Bob Goodlatte: Audit the Fed?
We have seen just what can happen when government officials and agencies are not held accountable. The Federal Reserve, or Fed, should not be excluded from this accountability.

Ten-day village building convergence rocks small town Sebastopol
Participants in the ambitious ten-day Sebastopol Village Building Convergence (VBC) painted murals on streets in this small Northern California town and filled the Grange Hall, the Permaculture Skills Center.

Robert Hurt: The House continues to fight for jobs
Throughout the 113th Congress, the House of Representatives has maintained a laser focus on the policies that will create the conditions needed for more robust job growth.

Affirm the freedom to read during Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week, Sept, 21-27, reminds Americans about the importance of preventing censorship and ensuring everyone’s freedom to read any book they choose.

Bob Goodlatte: Confronting the ISIL threat
The rapid expansion of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) not only poses a serious threat to a region that is no stranger to turmoil, but also to every nation, including the United States, that rejects their brutality and extreme ideology.

National FFA president from Shenandoah County wrapping up term
The National FFA organization was founded at Virginia Tech in the 1920s, but it’s been 35 years since it was led by a Virginia youth.

Tim Kaine statement on Senate passage of interim spending bill
Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement after the Senate passed a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government through December 11, 2014 by a vote of 78-22.

JMU Time and Place: Sept. 19-24
Campus events and activities at James Madison University. From the JMU Office of Public Affairs.