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Gov. Bob McDonnell joined Del. Kirk Cox and former Secretary of Education Jim Dyke, leaders from the Virginia School Boards Association, Virginia Association of School Superintendents, Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals, Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals and key business leaders on Thursday to announce part one of his 2013 K-12 education reform legislative agenda.
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“Never say never” is an old admonition that suggests we do not know what the future holds that might predict our future actions. In the political arena especially there are so many changing currents that it is most difficult to predict one’s future action.
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The U.S. Senate last night passed the National Defense Authorization Actfor Fiscal Year 2013, which includes numerous defense and national-security initiatives long advocated by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). The bill, approved by a vote of 98-0, will now be conferenced with the House Armed Services Committee.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell on Monday announced a leadership contribution of $100,000 to the Virginia Public Safety Foundation from Motorola Solutions Foundation, benefiting construction of the Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial. The memorial will be Virginia’s monument to nearly 750 public safety heroes killed in the line of duty and the 165,000 public safety officers serving Virginians every day.
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The Equestrian Club of Bridgewater College will host the 11th annual “Horses’ Christmas” at the Bridgewater College Equestrian Center in Weyers Cave, on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 1 p.m.
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Growing Republican defections from Grover Norquist’s extreme pledge never to raise taxes under any circumstances means it’s now possible to reach a bipartisan deal to raise revenues from the wealthy to prevent major cuts to education, Medicare and other services, and to reduce the deficit.
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Small businesses with big entrepreneurial plans sometimes can’t reach their goals due to limited creative manpower. That’s where a special service-learning project at Bridgewater College hopes to make a difference.
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It’s the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and Waynesboro Public Library will be hosting a program about art from the front lines thanks to a grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Library of America.
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As every good businessman knows–including Governor Romney with whom I had been associated as a limited partner at Bain Capital Ventures–the soundness of a company and its ability to create jobs does not rest on lower taxes or tax avoidance–for the company or its senior management.
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Eighty-eight percent of the students who entered the ninth grade in the fall of 2008 earned a diploma within four years and of those, more than 55 percent earned an Advanced Studies Diploma, the Virginia Department of Education reported this week.
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