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The 2012 Democratic and Republican Party platforms spell out what party leaders believe will address the needs of the American people. However, will they include a plank that acknowledges and addresses the fact that our nation spends more than all others on medical research and healthcare yet still has one of the highest infant mortality…
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I joined more than 100 other millionaires from more than 50 cities in signing a Voices for Progress letter to Congress strongly opposing prolonging these special tax breaks. We who have the most income need these breaks the least —and it’s just not right to ask others to pay for them.
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Super PACs that filed monthly reports with the Federal Election Commission spent $29.6 million in July, according to a report by MapLight, a nonpartisan research organization that tracks money’s influence on politics
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A new study released today by researchers at the Brookings Institution and Harvard University shows that African American participants in a private school choice program were 24 percent more likely to enroll in college as a result of receiving a voucher, reinforcing previously-released data showing improved graduation rates, parental satisfaction, and academic achievement among voucher students
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Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of a group of African American teenagers known as the “Little Rock Nine,” will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, in Cole Hall at Bridgewater College
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The Clann Mhor Organization’s presentation on the Claudius Crozet railroad tunnel through Afton Mountain will be held on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the WTA’s Gateway Theatre, 329 W. Main Street, Waynesboro
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The Wildlife Center of Virginia, the nation’s leading teaching and research hospital for native wildlife, has scheduled three open-house dates for Fall 2012
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“Politics Matters,” hosted by Jan Paynter, which began airing on Charlottesville Public Access Television, will now be available on PBS WVPT
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The U.S. trade deficit with China eliminated or displaced more than 2.7 million U.S. jobs between 2001 and 2011, a new Economic Policy Institute briefing paper finds.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation will begin the next phase of environmental work on I-81 improvements between Roanoke and Christiansburg, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced on Thursday
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