State Lawmakers Field Questions from Alexandrians at City Hall
Public comment largely centered on voting rights and health care issues.
State legislators convened at Alexandria City Hall last week to hear public comment on hot topics for their constituents, which included health care and voting rights with various other topics peppered throughout the discussion. Senators Adam Ebbin, D-30; George Barker, D-39; and Dick Saslaw, D-35; along with Delegates Rob Krupicka, D-45, and Charniele Herring, D-46, answered audience questions during the event, hosted by the League of Women Voters. There seemed to be a rare general consensus among the lawmakers and the speakers — mostly senior citizens — on the topic of health care that Virginia should set up a health care exchange. Citizens said the state should establish its own set of regulated health care plans before the federal …
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Annabelle Fisher
6:51 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
Its too bad that your reporter left out one of the major legislative proposals that I spoke to at the meeting with our delegates to Richmond, i.e. that all nursing homes have a working generator when there is a power outage. After talking with Vice Mayor Donley, I was able to get attached to this bill that all mid-rise/high rise apartment buildings have one elevator that is operational when there… more ›