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Emily Boissonneault has joined the James Madison women’s lacrosse coaching staff as an assistant coach, Head Coach Shelley Klaes-Bawcombe announced earlier this week.
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine today welcomed Senate passage of the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA), bipartisan education legislation that includes key provisions he authored to help prevent sexual assault and strengthen career and technical education (CTE) in schools across the country.
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Four months ago the Washington Post published an op-ed headlined ‘War With Iran Is Probably Our Best Option.’ It wasn’t. Defenders of war present war as a last resort, but when other options are tried the result is never war. We should carry this lesson over to several other parts of the world.
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Washington and Lee University has received project grants totaling $950,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — one to develop new methods of teaching the humanities using technology and another to study how the lessons of history help us interpret contemporary issues.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe spoke at today’s opening session of the Walmart Manufacturing Summit to an audience that included suppliers who do business with the retailer.
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The clock is ticking down on a key law that protects Internet freedom. On October 1, 2015, a temporary moratorium on state taxation of Internet access will expire.
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Cynthia Pritchard, the CEO of United Way of Greater Augusta, joined 60 other United Way leaders on Capitol Hill today to push Congress — including Senator Mark Warner, Senator Tim Kaine, and Congressman Bob Goodlatte to help working American families turn their financial tightropes into solid financial pathways.
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GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program, Inc. (GRASP), a non-profit, education organization, headquartered in Glen Allen, recently awarded 124 Last Dollar scholarships totaling $125,000 to Virginia high school students graduating in 2015.
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Cynthia Pritchard, CEO of the United Way of Greater Augusta, will travel to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, to speak to local members of Congress to help working American families who may be struggling in the Greater Augusta community. Cynthia Pritchard will be meeting with the offices of Senator Mark Warner, Senator Tim Kaine, and Congressman Bob Goodlatte.
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Learn English and Reading Now (LEARN) will have one of its four tutor trainings on Saturday, July 25.
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