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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced this week that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center Applied Sciences’ DEVELOP Program has completed two projects in Virginia designed to support the Commonwealth’s wine industry and improve the efficiency of water consumption for agricultural purposes.
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today praised the committee’s Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes amendments introduced by Kaine condemning sequestration cuts and strengthening credentialing programs, as well as a number of other provisions supported by Kaine that benefit Virginia’s shipbuilding industry and defense community.
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Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, will invest $6.015 million to expand and consolidate its manufacturing and assembly operations at its facility in the Town of Christiansburg in Montgomery County. The project will create 100 new jobs.
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The Virginia Environmental Endowment today announced awards of more than $240,000 to protect and improve the region’s natural resources and environment.
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A group of Indigenous women are leading a 340-mile, 12-day Nibi Water Walk along the James River on Monday to honor the river and pray for its health.
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Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced this week that law firms, legal departments, government offices, and law schools across Virginia joined together to raise the equivalent of more than 1.3 million pounds of food for Virginia’s hungry during this year’s statewide Legal Food Frenzy.
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As many as 140 protesters from across Virginia and Maryland greeted Dominion Resources executives and board members arriving for the company’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday morning, in a sign of the growing citizen backlash over the company’s dirty energy investments and dirty politics.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Wednesday that Target Corporation will invest approximately $50 million to expand its distribution operation in the City of Suffolk, creating hundreds of new jobs.
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U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) along with U.S. Reps. Scott Rigell (R-VA-2), Bobby Scott (D-VA-3), Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11), Rob Wittman (R-VA-1), and Randy Forbes (R-VA-4), requested that the Air Force Space Command strongly consider locating a Cyber Operations Squadron (COS) at Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE).
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Virginia Tech home football games draw an influx of out-of-town fans – a boon to many businesses in the region. The visiting maroon-and-orange contingent now has a dollar value: $69 million.
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