Apr 26, 2009The Obama Administration - 100 Days
The Democratic National Committee would like to provide you with
the historical first 100 days of the Obama Adminstration
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Nov 6, 2008November 4th - What a day!
For all those you volunteered and were engaged this election - Thank You! You came from near and far to be part of history. You walked our neighborhoods, you phoned our community and you ensured our votes were protected. I and the rest of the Mt. Vernon Democratic Committee thank you.
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Jul 18, 2008Senator Joe Gartlan
News came to us today, that a true friend and progressive stalworth of our community has passed away. Senator Joseph V. Gartlan, who represented the Virginia 36th senatorial seat from 1972 to 2000.
Many of our Mt. Vernon family has known and worked with Joe over the past...
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May 31, 2008Mt. Vernon Picnic & Politics 2008
Submitted by: Janet Myhre, Chair
Yes – I bet a lot of you thought that the picnic was cancelled yesterday – but it was held on time – just cut a little short. What are the odds that a major storm that pushed its way through the Washington DC metro area started @ 2:00 pm...
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Feb 12, 2008Mount Vernon Volunteers out Shine the Sun
No Wind,,,, No Rain,,,, Can Stop us,,,, from reaching the voters. (guess what song that is from?). There is just two many volunteers to list on the front page - click here to see all the stuff
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Jan 24, 2008MVDDC Elects New Chair
MVDDC Elects new Chair - Janet Myhre
See Chairs Welcome Note on MVDDC Blog
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Sep 4, 2007MV Democrats Drop 5,000 Pieces
On the first weekend of the MVDDC Lit Drop, 21 volunteers deliver 5,000 pieces to Mt. Vernon families.
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Sep 1, 2007MVDDC Lit Drop Kickoff
***THIS WEEKEND**** MV Democratic Bulletin Lit Drop!! 40,000 Pieces Starting Labor Day
Our own The 8-page MVDDC Vote 2007 Tabloid is IN!!! The MVDDC Communications Committee team led by Mary Paden has done...
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Working Families
Jul 19, 2007Dispatch - GOP disputes union order
Many of the state's 7,000 independent home health-care workers -- the ones who look after low-income elderly and disabled Ohioans -- say Strickland's order gives them a long-awaited opportunity to address concerns about pay, benefits and working conditions.
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Mar 15, 2010McDonnell claims an 80% success rate in assembly session
Gov. Bob McDonnell is claiming an 80 percent success rate in his first legislative session. With the budget crisis resolved, he now will turn to other substantial challenges facing his administration. The new Republican chief executive said the General Assembly session fulfilled his top...
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Mar 15, 2010McDonnell signs emergency legislation overhauling VITA
Gov. Bob McDonnell now is directly responsible for fixing a problem he inherited: Virginia’s troubled information-technology bureaucracy and its fractious dealings with contractor Northrop Grumman. McDonnell announced yesterday that he has signed into law legislation that immediately...
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Mar 15, 2010 Fairfax accuses housing nonprofit's leader of fraud
Fairfax County officials allege that the executive director of one of the Washington region's leading affordable-housing nonprofit companies forged a zoning document to secure more than $700,000 in public loans, a case that has led the county to ban the group from obtaining county contracts and...
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Mar 15, 2010 Jurors acquit Virginia dad in shaken baby syndrome case
After another battle of experts over the concept of "shaken baby syndrome," a Fairfax County jury found a man not guilty of murder on Monday in the death of his 8-month-old son.
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Mar 15, 2010 Montgomery, Prince George's slash budgets
Maryland's two largest counties outlined spending cuts Monday that would reach from children's health clinics to nursing homes, slice tens of millions of dollars in education spending and furlough thousands of public employees.
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Mar 15, 2010Cuccinelli denies he is a 'birther,' says audio blog post is 'hypothetical'
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli (R) denied accusations Monday that he is a birther, saying that audio posted online of him saying it is not "beyond the realm of possibility" President Obama was born in Kenya reflected "a hypothetical legal answer" to a question. "I absolutely...
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Mar 15, 2010School funding formula benefits Northern Virginia but not other areas
Here's a corner of the budget that's likely to get a good hard look next year, when lawmakers do revisions on the second year of their two-year spending plan: In the budget approved Sunday, General Assembly agreed to "hold harmless" localities that lose out from updating the formula that...
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Jan 10, 2010Farewell (For Now)
                            (HT: New Yorker)
This is our 400th and final post on 7 West. Since Kris and I started blogging here in July of 2006, two technologically challenged AARPsters have learned a lot about how to express ourselves through the marvelous series...
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Dec 7, 2009Anyone but me . . .
think that it’s, well, a little self-defeating to publish a Kindle edition of The Case for Books?
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Feb 15, 2010All Good Things...
This will be my last post on New Dominion Project. Our annual hosting bill is due, and I can't justify the expense to host a blog that I no longer have the time to maintain frequently. We'll be pulling out an archive soon and I will probably host it somewhere.
I've been at this for a few years...
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Jan 28, 2010State Senate Dems to Ban Individual Mandate, Poke Congress With Sticks
Virginia Democrats in the State Senate are about to pass as early as tomorrow on a bill banning an individual mandate from taking effect in Virginia. This move is little more than symbolic, as a federal mandate would override state petulance, but State Senators Chuck Colgan and Phil Pickett, at...
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