This Thursday, March 23, the Affordable Care Act will celebrate its two-year anniversary.  To mark the occasion, advocates across the Commonwealth will host events to highlight how the ACA has worked for Virginia.  These activities include a tweet chat on Twitter, campus speak-outs, community conversations and others where Virginians will share their personal stories […]

This week is Sunshine week, where we celebrate the Freedom of Information Act and transparent government. But it began with the disturbing news that the study of uranium mining in Pittsylvania will not be subject to public scrutiny and “many of its papers [will be kept] secret”. This study will be used to determine how to regulate […]

Yesterday we lost a difficult fight. Late in the afternoon, Governor McDonnell signed HB 462, which forces women to undergo intrusive, medically unnecessary ultrasounds as a precursor to receiving legal medical care. In so doing, Governor McDonnell demonstrated his dedication to a right wing agenda and his personal political aspirations over the women of Virginia […]

  The media loves to make claims about the Affordable Care Act being unpopular. The latest USA/Gallup poll doesn’t tell the whole truth about Americans’ attitudes about the Affordable Care Act and in fact, shows the health care reform law is unpopular because its been politicized. In fact, when people learn the truth about the […]

Today for Valentine’s Day, the Young Invincibles, an organization focused on expanding health care coverage for younger Americans, launched their #FriendsWithBenefits campaign to help educate young people about their new health care options. The campaign includes incredibly detailed, state-specific health care toolkits that are available to download for free. Through the use of social networking […]

This morning the New York Times Editorial page profiled ProgressVA’s report on the influence of a “little-known conservative organization financed by millions of corporate dollars” on Virginia’s legislature. The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is responsible for over 50 bills introduced in the General Assembly in recent years. The editorial concluded, “ALEC’s work…further demonstrates […]

While appearing on a Sunday morning news show with Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, Governor Bob McDonnell stated, “I’m glad the economy is starting to recover, but I think it’s because of what Republican governors are doing in their states, not because of the president.” However, the Washington Examiner reports, “Maryland created eight times more private-sector jobs than Virginia […]

In direct conflict with his months of criticizing the stimulus, George Allen spent the last two weeks touring and touting the economic successes of two Virginia firms that received millions in stimulus grants. One of them, Ennis Electric Company, Allen visited last week and left out of his praise for the company was the fact […]

As the Virginia General Assembly discusses the budget for this year, it is clearer than ever that Governor McDonnell’s cuts-only approach to Virginia’s enormous budget shortfall is unrealistic and impossible. More than 90% of the proposed $880 million in cuts are to education and healthcare. We cannot rob the citizens of Virginia of such vital services because […]

Last night in his State of the Union address, the President spoke of a better America and better government.  Guided by the belief that government “should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more,” the President has led our government to govern better, implementing historic initiatives such as the Affordable […]