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It’s a big pile of dirt now. In 8-10 months, it will be a LEED Platinum-certified long-term care pharmacy. And The Augusta Free Press and The New Dominion Magazine will be there every step of the way. “The more I looked into building a green building, we came to realize that you can build a…
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THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody doing today? (Applause.) How about Tim Spicer? (Applause.) I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten…
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Attorney-general candidate Steve Shannon today launched a website providing parents with tips to protect their children from sexual predators, including learning the secret codes that kids use when speaking to those predators on the Internet. The website, www.ProtectVAKids.com, follows his announcement last month of a comprehensive plan to keep Virginia’s children safe online.
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Thursday that Virginia teleworkers saved approximately $113,000, avoided driving 140,000 miles and removed 75.89 tons of pollutants from the air through participation in Telework Day on Aug. 3, 2009. The “What We Saved; What We Learned” report, compiled by the public-private partnership Telework Exchange, also reveals an increase in productivity…
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The room was lovely, the bed inviting, the architecture interesting, and the philosophy appealing. That was my impression as we checked into a newly minted green-hotel in a resort town where we were eager to spend time relaxing. But when we checked out, lovely wasn’t on my mind. Protective glass on the combined soaking tub/shower…
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Steve Shannon gets it that the attorney general’s office in Virginia is about public safety first and foremost. Ken Cuccinelli, on the other hand, seems more focused on the political end of things. “He’s not talking in any meaningful way about public safety. He’s talking about the same things that you would talk about if…
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Oh, what a miserable month! Even in paradise. There is little good we can say when we think of August. It is a month that is too darn hot and 31 days too long. It has only one purpose – a better appreciation of September which is now upon us.
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Like any organization created by humans, health care in any form can be done well or badly. Some universal systems are done well. Others are done badly.
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Too often, as a pastor, I’ve seen the scene: Called to a hospital waiting room, I meet a family in terrible distress. Someone they love lies in critical care, at death’s door. Prognoses are grim. Tests give little hope or, worse, reveal that the brain has ceased to function.
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It was hot. Very hot. And not a cold beer within sight. All that was near were acres of tall grass and the two small planes that were moved out of the hanger so you could sit in the shade. Of course there were plenty of cold drinks on hand. But none to massage the…
