Latest Programs
3/11/09 - Mortgage Default Counseling
Sept. 7, 2009, 2:14 p.m.
Housing Opportunities Made Equal's Paula Sherman offers practical advice on what homeowners must do to save their home or home equity.
Sept. 7, 2009, 2:06 p.m.
The Taxpayer Advocate Service's Amy Durham & the Community Tax Law Project's Paul Harrison offer tax tips for the 2008 tax year and for the income tax filing due April 15, 2009.
2/25/09 - Budget & Fiscal Issues
Sept. 7, 2009, 1:56 p.m.
The Executive Director of the Commonwealth Institute, Michael Cassidy, explains how Virginiaâs three billion dollar budget hole could be closed without harmful spending cuts by carefully closing wasteful tax loopholes.
2/18/09 - Car Title Loans / Voting Rights Restoration
Sept. 7, 2009, 1:45 p.m.
Policy Analyst with the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, LaTonya Reed, discusses car title lending as well as restoration of voting rights, and why disallowing the vote to convicted felons is bad policy and a shameful remnant of Virginiaâs racist laws.
2/11/09 - Housing Issues / Immigrant Issues
Sept. 7, 2009, 1:36 p.m.
Policy Analyst with the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, Ali Faruk, highlights housing and immigration issues before the Virginia General Assembly, and why asking victims and witnesses of crime about their immigration status is bad policy and bad police work.
2/4/09 - Immigrant Law (Part 2 of 2)
Sept. 7, 2009, 1:28 p.m.
The Immigrant Advocacy Program's Tim Freilich speaks on how immigrants are treated and mistreated under current law, in the second part of a two-part presentation.
1/28/09 - Immigrant Law (Part 1 of 2)
Sept. 7, 2009, 1:20 p.m.
The Immigrant Advocacy Program's Tim Freilich speaks on how immigrants are treated and mistreated under current law, in the first part of a two-part presentation.
Sept. 7, 2009, 1:09 p.m.
General Counsel for the Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley Henry Woodward tells strange but true tales about Zombie debts that haunt the living from beyond the grave.
Labor Day with Blues and Jack Hirschman's Poetry for the People
Sept. 7, 2009, 12:18 p.m.
Jack Hirschman, San Francisco Poet Laureate, shares his work and the work of other poets for the people. Includes a first ever airing of his latest arcane to Amiri Baraka on Barak Obama and We, the People. Interspersed with Blues.
Sept. 7, 2009, 12:02 p.m.
State Legal Services Director of the Department for the Aging, Janet James, talks about Project 2025, and whatâs being done to prepare Virginia to meet the legal needs of Senior Citizens in the next 16 years.
12/31/08 - New Payday Lending Law (Part 2 of 2)
Sept. 7, 2009, 11:53 a.m.
Consumer Attorney Jay Speer explains the changes to Virginiaâs Payday Lending Law effective January 1, 2009 in the second part of a two-part presentation.
12/24/08 - New Payday Lending Law (Part 1 of 2)
Sept. 7, 2009, 11:46 a.m.
Consumer Attorney Jay Speer explains the changes to Virginiaâs Payday Lending Law effective January 1, 2009 in the first part of a two-part presentation.
12/17/08 - Rental Housing Repairs
Sept. 7, 2009, 11:36 a.m.
Legal Aid Justice Center Attorney Steve Dickinson guides us through what tenants must, and must not do, to get bad rental housing repaired by landlords.
Sept. 7, 2009, 11:26 a.m.
Housing Law Attorney Jim Naggles talks about Virginiaâs foreclosure process and possible alternatives.
12/3/08 - Emergency Unemployment Compensation
Sept. 7, 2009, 11:19 a.m.
Cheryl Crawford at the Virginia Employment Commission describes the complicated rules about who can get emergency unemployment compensation, and how.
Sept. 7, 2009, 11:10 a.m.
Consumer Attorney Tom Domonoske identifies the legal traps and pitfalls of buying a used car, and how to side step them.
11/19/08 - Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Sept. 7, 2009, 11:03 a.m.
Consumer Attorney Dale Pittman unmasks the despicable tactics of debt collectors, and what you can do to fight back under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Sept. 7, 2009, 10:55 a.m.
Director of the Pro Bono Services Programs at the University of Richmond Law School, Tara Casey, explains divorce in Virginia and how law students will be helping meet this need.
Sept. 7, 2009, 10:41 a.m.
Miriam Sincell, at the University of Richmond Law School, explains the Street Law program and how law students teach everyday practical legal concepts to high school students.
Sept. 7, 2009, 7:54 a.m.
Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, Kent Willis, talks about your legal rights as a voter, and what to do if confronted with a problem or challenge on Election Day.
Sept. 7, 2009, 7:45 a.m.
The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy's Patrick Getlein & LaTonya Reed outline the problem of car title lending, the legal loophole that allows car title lenders to reap obscene profits & what to do about it, and present victim testimony on how car title loans are financial quicksand.
10/15/08 - Child Neglect & Abuse and Foster Care
Sept. 7, 2009, 7:33 a.m.
Family Law Attorney Attorney Christie Marra speaks for children in foster care who are trapped in what a recent study by the Pew Charitable Trust has called the âWorst Foster Care System in the Nation.â
10/8/08 - Civil Consequences of Criminal Convictions
Sept. 7, 2009, 7:24 a.m.
Criminal defense lawyer Esther Windmueller, reveals the troubling civil consequences of a criminal conviction affecting your ability to get employment, public benefits, housing, education and even the right to keep your children.
10/1/08 - Medicaid (Families & Children)
Sept. 7, 2009, 7:14 a.m.
Health Law Attorney Jill Hanken explains the complicated rules to get Medicaid and other government health insurance in the second part of a two part interview.
09/24/08 - Medicaid (Aged, Blind & Disabled)
Sept. 7, 2009, 7:06 a.m.
Health Law Attorney Jill Hanken explains the complicated rules to get Medicaid and other government health insurance in the first part of a two part interview.
Sept. 7, 2009, 7:03 a.m.
Carlito is out of town tonight so I will be filling in for him. I'm Andrew Felty and I'm looking forward to playing all kinds of music from around the world in the universal language of groove. All vinyl - mostly originals.
Sept. 7, 2009, 6:58 a.m.
Roxanne Grossman and Paul Harrison, from the Community Tax Law Project, offer tax tips that could save low and moderate income taxpayers hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars.
Sept. 7, 2009, 6:48 a.m.
Private attorney Mary Burkey Owens explains child custody litigation and how these cases get decided.
9/3/08 - Workers' Compensation
Sept. 7, 2009, 6:40 a.m.
Private attorney John Oakey talks about workersâ compensation, whatâs compensable, whatâs not, and how you get benefits if youâre entitled to them.
8/27/08 - Motor Vehicle Lemon Law
Sept. 7, 2009, 6:32 a.m.
Consumer Activist Ralph Nader, famed author of âUnsafe at Any Speedâ is interviewed, along with private attorney John Gayle, at The Consumer Law Group, who informs us about Virginiaâs Motor Vehicle Lemon Law and carries on the vital advocacy against defective products and for safer cars.