Department of Health hires new OEMS director; looking to move forward after scandal
The Virginia Department of Health has hired an EMS and fire professional to lead the Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services.
The Virginia Department of Health has hired an EMS and fire professional to lead the Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services.

Costco – market cap: $438.4 billion – is outperforming Wall Street earnings estimates, but the company has a problem on its hands with its workers.
Terry Short is working to move some “big rocks” in his final four years serving on Waynesboro City Council.
We knew, as a promising UVA Basketball season fizzled out down the stretch last year, with a string of games in which the ‘Hoos didn’t get out of the 40s, that Tony Bennett Basketball needed to be a thing of the past.
AttainX, a federal cybersecurity contractor, announced this week that it is investing $175,000 to expand its Fairfax County operations.
Once again we find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms.
The Shenandoah Valley Animal Services Center is in urgent need of fosters and adopters for 30 dogs rescued from animal control cases.
A Floyd County Circuit Court judge ruled Wednesday that Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s effort to remove Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was “unlawful and without effect.”
Virginia has added 247,400 jobs since Glenn Youngkin took office in 2022, which we can thank the outgoing president, Joe Biden, and congressional Democrats for – see: Inflation Reduction Act.
We got ourselves a 2025 Virginia politics cycle shocker on Monday: Jason Miyares is going to run for a second term as attorney general, ceding the Republican Party gubernatorial nomination to Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears.
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