Notebook: What’s making news today in the climate, environmental circles
Virginia has one chance to critically assess NextEra Energy’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy.
Virginia has one chance to critically assess NextEra Energy’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy.
Tori Jankoska ended her college basketball career as the all-time leading scorer at Michigan State and was taken in the first round of the WNBA Draft by Chicago.
Dominion Energy and Florida-based NextEra Energy plan to merge to form the largest utility in the U.S. Clean Virginia, a nonprofit advocacy organization, urges extreme caution that this mega-merger does not put corporate profits ahead of customers.
After two years on the baseball team at Charlottesville High School, Dom Cafferillo transferred to the Miller School. Not only did Cafferillo get to face better competition, but he was able to play for a coach that was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
As a hitting coach in the minor leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system, Gregg Ritchie got to first work in 2005 with future All-Star outfielder Andrew McCutchen.
After a four-year varsity baseball career at Waynesboro High School, Jackson Sherman wanted to stay in-state to play college ball.
The congressional district that gave us Marjorie Taylor Greene, famous for her belief in Jewish space lasers, replaced MTG with a guy, Clay Fuller, who thinks Maryland is in the SEC, and that Georgia is named for George Washington.
UVA Football has hired an NFL scouting veteran to take over its college scouting department.
We had world-renowned climate scientist Michael Mann at the University of Virginia for a while, before he left for Penn State, then Penn – then Ken Cuccinelli, doing the bidding of the climate deniers, tried to play legal footsie with him.
Not many people can say they played in high school for two coaches who are in the Virginia High School League Hall of Fame. But that is what Staunton native Larry Sheets accomplished in the late 1970s.
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