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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — More than 300 employees from five state agencies have resigned since Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia’s new telework policy in early May, according to records obtained by 8News. This includes 183 Virginia Department of Transportation employees, 28 of whom cited “telework options” as the reason for leaving. Two VDOT workers who listed telework as the reason did move to another state agency, records obtained by 8News after filing a Freedom of Information Act request show.On May 5, Youngkin ordered all state workers to begin working in-person full-time by July 5, a change the governor said would...

And then there were 50. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra launched another lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday, raising the state’s legal battles with the White House to more than four dozen filings... Monday’s lawsuit builds on a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ruling from earlier this month that removed a state’s authority to pay third parties for Medicaid provider costs, including health insurance, skills training and employee benefits. During a press conference to announce the new filing, Becerra said the latest lawsuit aims to preserve $6.5 billion in federal funding that helps support in-home services to...

Gold Star father Khizr Khan has canceled a scheduled speech in Toronto after being told his “travel privileges are being reviewed,” according to the event organizer. Khan, who has lived in the U.S. since 1980 and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, was scheduled to speak Tuesday at a luncheon hosted by the Toronto-based organization Ramsay Talks. The two-hour event was scheduled to include a presentation and question-and-answer session on “what we can do about the appalling turn of events in Washington – so that we don’t all end up sacrificing everything,” according to the organizer. In a statement posted on...

(Watch video at like.) \California Gov. Jerry Brown said Friday if he were Vice President Joe Biden, he'd give "very serious consideration" to running for president — and suggested a Biden bid could spell trouble for frontrunner Hillary Clinton's White House hopes. "All I can say is, if I were Hillary, I would say [to Biden], 'Don't jump in.' If I were Joe Biden, I'd probably give it very serious consideration," he said in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Brown's comments come as Clinton has seen her lead in polls of the Democratic field shrink...

http://www.citizenlink.org/Stoplight/A000009104.cfm Interesting video that recaps where Obama is today in his change and hope Hypocrisy 101 course for the American people.

Results of three legislative hearings on various anti-initiative bills: *Legislators ignorant about the contents of bills that they themselves are co-sponsoring; *Repeated, purposeful misrepresentation of the facts by the Secretary of State, misleading legislators, the press, and the public; *Committee hearings where microphones are cut off when citizens are speaking; *Legislators snickering and rolling their eyes during citizen testimony; *Far-reaching bills with an "analysis" that is a single paragraph; *Without discussion or debate, votes on bills with only two legislators present (we asked staffers "How can you vote without a quorum?" - they refused to answer); *Long lists of citizens...

.. Seen from afar, the congressional debate over the war and terrorism comes across as a Washington event designed to show that Democrats are wimps on national security and to boost Republicans as true defenders of the homeland. Or Republicans are portrayed as clueless warmongers hell-bent on sending other people's sons and daughters into battle... In reality, the struggle on Capitol Hill is not about terrorism. It's about gaining and holding power in the fall election. And it is a disgusting sight to behold... Self-regarding members of Congress, intent on keeping their jobs, have forgotten all about enemies who are...

"I hear the caribou are grazing this time of year..."So I am sitting here thinking about the price of gas. I hear people complain about it, and of course blame our president because of it. I am not going to go into an economics lesson about supply and demand because quite honestly, I don't think enough people would understand it, even if I did. markbureau 4/27/6

"I hear the caribou are grazing this time of year..." So I am sitting here thinking about the price of gas. I hear people complain about it, and of course blame our president because of it. I am not going to go into an economics lesson about supply and demand because quite honestly, I don't think enough people would understand it, even if I did. markbureau 4/27/6

Fred Friendly Seminars Presents IN THE BALANCE, a Provocative Look at the Social, Political, Economic, Legal and Health and Safety Implications of Terrorist Threats - Wednesday August 3, 12:42 pm ET Programs To Air During National Preparedness Month In September Presented on PBS by Thirteen/WNET New York NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2005-- A videotape claiming that a terrorist attack will happen at a shopping mall in the next few days is sent to a major national news organization. How does the organization respond? On the one hand, this is an exclusive news event; on the other, it's a potential national...

David Broder WP Writers Group WASHINGTON - .... The American news media have been clobbered. ...the news organizations on which people should be able to depend have been diverted into chasing sham-events... ...editors of ..., The New York Times and USA Today, were forced to resign because their organizations were duped by lying staff reporters, ... ...none of these damaging failures would have occurred had senior journalists not been blind to the fact that the standards in their organizations were being fatally compromised.... The first symptom ... began offering their most prestigious and visible jobs not to people deeply imbued...

I think we need to Kerrey and Hamilton a taste of FREEPER activism! Something like this: Dear Senator Kerrey and Hamilton: I think it shows total disrespect for the Office of the President to request his presence in front of the commission and then walk out on him and the vice-president. What it seems like is that the commission was set up with a politcal agenda to discredit the current administration and when you found out that the Presidents testimony was not going to serve your political ends, you walked out! Political manevoures like this is why the Republicans control...

<p>Kelly E. Miller didn't waiver.</p> <p>Despite the political implications, the Chesterfield County supervisor today called for a vote to name Iron Bridge Park after his friend and colleague, retired county Supervisor Harry G. Daniel.</p> <p>It passed. The decision ended a two-day debate that had at least one board member privately pushing for a deferral.</p>