Towuanna Porter Brannon hired to lead Thomas Nelson Community College
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Dr. Towuanna Porter Brannon will become the next president of Thomas Nelson Community College.
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Virginia Tech, Cornell researchers team up to solve America’s hard cider identity crisis
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Despite having spent most of the last decade in a period of rapid expansion, the U.S. hard cider market’s growth has begun to slow.
John W. Whitehead: The election has already been hijacked
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By John W. Whitehead “Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.” ― Herbert Marcuse Republicans and Democrats alike fear that the other party will attempt to hijack this election. President Trump is convinced that mail-in ballots are a scam except in Florida, where it’s safe to vote by mail because of its “great Republican…
State announces $1.7M for COVID-19 relief on Virginia peninsula
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Gov. Ralph Northam today announced more than $1.7 million in Community Development Block Grants for three COVID-19 relief projects in James City and York counties and the city of Williamsburg.
As cases, hospitalizations decline, VDH rolls out yet another COVID-19 dashboard
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The Virginia Department of Health has launched a new Pandemic Metrics Dashboard, which VDH says will provide a visualization of COVID-19 community transmission by region.
How Daniel Snyder became an NFL owner
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In May 1999, the Washington Football Team and the Jack Kent Cooke Stadium were sold in a blind auction to an investment group led by Daniel Snyder.
Too little too late? For most states, Chesapeake Bay cleanup goals are a long shot
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It’s been 10 years since the Chesapeake Bay watershed was put on a “pollution diet.” And while there’s been some belt tightening since then, the regional effort to reduce nutrient pollution in order to restore a healthy Bay has fared about as well as many other diets: It is far from meeting its 2025 goal.
States exhausting $300 LWA payments: FEMA clarifies program will cover six weeks of benefits
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Nearly seven weeks after the $600-per-week enhanced federal unemployment benefit enacted under the CARES Act expired, 34 states still have not initiated the $300 payments under the Lost Wages Assistance program.
Northam announces easing of public health restrictions in Hampton Roads
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Gov. Ralph Northam today announced that localities in Hampton Roads will join the rest of the Commonwealth in Phase Three of the “Forward Virginia” plan to ease public health restrictions put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Herring joins in amicus brief defending ability of states to enact gun safety laws
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Attorney General Mark R. Herring has joined a group of 18 state attorneys general to defend the ability of states to enact gun safety laws that protect public safety and reduce the prevalence and lethality of gun violence.
