The Power of Community
As long as we care about each other and the place we live, every community has the ability to transform itself from being a simple aggregate of people to being a real community.(P ...
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Fredericksburg, September 10: Use Your Voice, Change Your World
Frustrated with elected officials?Why haven’t you told them so? Too shy?Too discouraged?Reluctant?Tongue tied? Learn the Tools — Practice the SkillsGather up ...
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Tea Party Downgrade
Conservatives in Washington are working around the clock to try to shift the blame for Standard and Poor's first-in-history downgrade of the United States' credit rating.B ...
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Dr. Lillis: Medicare, Our Deficit and Honesty
The following was originally posted on Progress Notes and was written by Dr. Chris Lillis, Fredericksburg Physician and Virginia Organizing Health Care Committee Member.By Dr. Chr ...
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Meet Alec
Have you ever wondered how corporations seem to get everything they want from much of the legislation passed at the state level? Well, one shortcut corporate America has been usin ...
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Mitchell: America shouldn’t be a country where livelihoods are bargained for.
With the average cost of a college education today being somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000 per year, imagine putting four children through college by yourself. Even for ...
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VIDEO: Spotsy Residents Call on GA to “Bake a Bigger Pie”
On March 24, the Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors held a public hearing to learn about the budget priorities of area residents. Virginia Organizing and partner groups in the area ...
Read More »Education Reform in Fredericksburg
Education reform continues to be the topic of many national policy conversations. Virginia Organizing's Fredericksburg members interested in the issue have been thinking about edu ...
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We Won! Victory on Fredericksburg CSX Campaign
We won. We don’t get to write those two simple words often enough at Virginia Organizing, but part of working on tough issues means that the struggle can take a while. That ...
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Edd Houck is playing hardball with CSX; it’s about time
The following editorial was published in the Fredericksburg Freelance Star on February 9, 2011.IT'S been over a year now since Mayfield residents acquired some disturbing new ...
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