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The Governor’s 2011 Conference on Energy has been announced for October 17-19 at the Richmond Convention Center. Once again the logo for the conference proclaims “Virginia: Energy Capital of the East Coast.” For a state that imports nearly 20 percent of its electricity and virtually all its petroleum products and is in the lower half…
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Virginia has been named the most pro-business state in the country by the Pollina Corporate Real Estate study: “Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States for 2011: The Rise of the West.” Virginia won the 2011 top-ranking by the largest margin in the history of the study. This marks the third straight year that Virginia has…
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Dee Gully and Destinee Karim, both 17, said they had little interest in history or the civil rights movement before being chosen for an unprecedented tour of 1960s-era sites in the South, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders changed the course of history. “Knowing what I do now makes me…
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Finish what you start. That’s the goal – simple, but maybe not so simple – for JMU football in 2011. “We’re expecting to finish. That’s our main goal. We’re trying to be CAA champs and then national champions. That’s always our goal,” said Dae’Quan Scott, a redshirt sophomore tailback from Staunton. “We have a bad…
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The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced today that Virginia’s winter wheat yield is forecast at 72 bushels per acre compared with 51 bushels per acre a year earlier. Production is expected to total 18.7 million bushels which is up 129 percent from the previous year. Harvested acreage is up 100,000 acres from…
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As the financial and commodity markets continue to reel and roil from Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the government’s long-term sovereign credit rating, there may be a silver lining for financially beleaguered consumers, some energy analysts are predicting. Crude oil futures fell to their lowest level in eight months, dropping nearly five percent in early…
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Awesome Wrestling Entertainment has opened its East Coast corporate headquarters in a location in Downtown Waynesboro. The company, which stages live-event pro-wrestling shows across the United States, has set up its East Coast office at 421 W. Main St., Waynesboro. “This is a big step for us as a company,” said CEO Marvin Ward, who…
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Over the past several weeks Washington has been seized with the issue regarding the President’s request to raise the nation’s debt ceiling. The dynamics of the potential economic ramifications, my commitment to cutting government spending, and the political realities of a divided government in Washington underlined this debate. After listening to and communicating with many…
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In a massive coordinated information-seeking campaign, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and 33 other affiliates across the nation today are sending requests to more than 375 local law enforcement agencies large and small demanding to know when, why and how they are using cell phone location data to track Americans. The Virginia affiliate…
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The ACLU of Virginia today sent an email to local and regional jail officials reminding them that they must allow Muslim inmates to take their meals between sundown and sunrise during the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan begins on August 1 and ends with the celebration of Eid ul-Fitr on August 30. The ACLU’s warning…
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