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The Royals snapped a three-game losing skid Saturday, taking a walk-off win from Emory & Henry in the first game of an ODAC doubleheader in Harrisonburg. The men had to settle for a split, however, as EHC stole the decision in the nightcap. EMU 5, Emory & Henry 4 Game one was all about…
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Corporations pay a lower effective tax rate than Warren Buffett and Mitt Romney, but you wouldn’t know it from all the complaints that our corporate tax rate puts our country at a competitive disadvantage. Last year, U.S. corporations paid just 12.1 percent of their earnings in federal corporate income taxes. Buffett’s tax rate is 17.4…
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Solar companies that use products made in China have a huge advantage over competitors that try to go American. The difference in price on a large project, said Shawn Cooke, the chief technology officer at Sigora Solar in Waynesboro, could be in the thousands of dollars. “It can be harder to compete, but we try…
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Staunton/Augusta/Waynesboro’s economy ranks among the country’s strongest micropolitan areas, reports the March issue of Site Selection Magazine. Staunton/Augusta/Waynesboro is tied at #13 in the national ranking and is top-ranked for Virginia. The only other Virginia locality to make the list, Martinsville, comes in at #32. The US Census Bureau defines a micropolitan region as an…
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Mark Warner had just said that Congress won’t be able to come up with a solution to federal-budget and national-debt issues until both Republicans and Democrats put some “skin in the game” to work toward a compromise solution. A member of the audience at the Waynesboro YMCA put those words back at the centrist Democrat,…
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Some politicians are still calling contraception a social evil. This is an astonishing claim in the 21st Century when all the evidence is that contraception is key to a more successful economy and a better quality of life – not only for individual women and their families, but for us all. Because contraception makes it…
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Steele Stanwick dished out a career-high seven assists and Chris Bocklet and Rob Emery scored four goals each to pace the No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers (6-0) to a 16-10 triumph over the Vermont Catamounts (0-4) Tuesday night, inside Klöckner Stadium. With the seven assists, Stanwick moved past Mike Caravana and Danny Glading into fifth place…
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After 10 days off, the VMI lacrosse team made some key adjustments, which helped the Keydets hang tough with No. 16 Lehigh University on Tuesday afternoon. The Keydets fell 6-2 to the newly-ranked Mountain Hawks, backed by a 13 save effort from VMI’s netminder, J Rice. “What a difference 10 days makes,” said VMI head…
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Harvard withstood a late rally by the No. 13 James Madison women’s lacrosse team, and the Crimson came away with a 9-8 double-overtime victory over the visiting Dukes Tuesday afternoon. JMU lost for only the second time this season, and both defeats were on the road and by a single goal. The Dukes’ record stands…
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Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, is considering a new advanced manufacturing facility at its Crosspointe location near Richmond. The new factory would be an advanced blade manufacturing capability involving high-precision turbine blades for some of the world’s most sophisticated aircraft engines built by the company. Significant growth in the company’s aero engine order book…
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