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Virginia tourism revenues reached $25 billion in 2017, a 4.4 percent increase over 2016. In 2017, tourism in Virginia supported 232,000 jobs-an increase of 1.1 percent compared to 2016.
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DACA and border security are priorities for fixing in any immigration legislation that may soon move, but the broader immigration system also needs significant and substantial reform.
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It all started when a young man moved to Staunton from the Winchester area. David Drake had played in a band in Newtown—a sliver of a village between Stephens City and Kernstown, just south of Winchester.
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Average retail gasoline prices in Virginia have risen 3.9 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.72/g yesterday, according to the GasBuddy daily survey of 4,081 gas outlets in Virginia.
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At Stewart, four immigration judges heard around 4,522 cases in 2016, only 7 percent of which were granted asylum—the national average for the year was 43 percent. The judge in front of Robel had a 97.7 percent denial rate; in fact, he had denied Robel asylum before.
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American chestnuts were once found in forests from Ontario to Alabama. This “redwood of the East” was often described as a towering giant, dominating forests throughout the East Coast. That all changed, however, with the introduction of chestnut blight.
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Scientists at two of Virginia’s largest universities, working with clinicians from the two major health systems and a growing Virginia-based biotechnology company, have teamed up to address an important medical challenge.
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Offering training opportunities to employees not only benefits them individually, but it could also be a way for a business to improve the quality of its workforce.
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), the Committee’s Vice Chairman, voiced concern that rolling back trade restrictions on Chinese telecom company ZTE would pose significant national security risks to the United States.
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Average retail gasoline prices in Virginia have risen 4.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.67/g yesterday, according to the GasBuddy daily survey of 4,081 gas outlets in Virginia.
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