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U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) read messages on the Senate floor on Thurday from several Virginia constituents impacted by sequester cuts and federal employee furloughs, and urged his colleagues to work together to resolve a budget impasse before the fiscal year ends on September 30th.
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Old Dominion University has announced today the kick off times for the 2013 football schedule, as well as the Monarchs 2014 non-conference schedule.
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Clemson, seeking its 15th Atlantic Coast Conference football title and its second in three years, is the preseason choice to win the Atlantic Division and defeat Miami in the ninth annual Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game, according to a poll of media members attending this week’s ACC Football Kickoff at the Grandover Resort.
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Since sea level measurements were first recorded, in 1870, global averages have risen almost eight inches. The annual rate of rise has been 0.13 inches over the past 20 years, which is close to twice the average from the previous 80 years. Future estimates for sea levels vary according to region but most Earth scientists agree that sea levels are expected to rise at a greater pace than during the last 50 years.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced that Atomized Products Group, Inc. (APG), a global provider in the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of metal powders and TEXEX® brand battery expanders, will invest $4.3 million to establish an operation in the City of Chesapeake.
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Virginia’s leading nonpartisan pro-business organization, Virginia FREE, gave Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nominee Ralph Northam a 100% rating for the 2013 and 2012 legislative sessions.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) applauded the TRICARE military health insurance program for clarifying a controversial change in behavioral health care coverage for families with children who have developmental disabilities, including autism.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced three judicial appointments to fill vacant circuit court positions that were not filled during the 2013 General Assembly session. Robert R. Sandwich, Jr., will fill the 5th Judicial Circuit, Stephen E. Sincavage will serve in the 20th Judicial Circuit, and Charles L. Ricketts, III, will serve in the 25th Judicial Circuit.
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Today Democratic Party lieutenant governor nominee Ralph Northam raised issue with Gov. Bob McDonnell’s wasteful “Road for Nobody” pet project.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today released the Office of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships’ (“OTP3”) Draft 2013 Virginia PPTA Pipeline. The pipeline – which contains both long identified public-private transportation projects and new conceptual projects – follows on the heels of a year in which the value of the deals closed exceeded almost all other transportation markets across the globe, and Virginia’s P3 program was recognized as an international leader in public-private partnerships.
