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The Virginia Department of Health has awarded James Madison University a $3.4 million grant to produce content and design for an interactive website full of nutrition information for children and their families. The future “Health Bites” site is primarily designed to assure success of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)…
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Efforts to protect the environment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed should take into account the needs of the many diverse farmers in the area and the work they are now doing to reduce soil erosion and other impacts, a Virginia grower-leader told a congressional subcommittee last week. In her testimony last week before the United…
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The transcript from UVa. football coach Al Groh’s weekly press conference on Monday. COACH GROH: I had a very interesting college football weekend. I got a chance to get a much broader perspective on things, obviously, than when you’re not playing, you have the remote in your hands, you can kind of see what college…
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The 2009 state elections are going to be about the economy, for obvious reasons. Steve Landes thinks this is to his benefit. “The NFIB, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, who represent small businesses, they’re supporting me, they’re not supporting you,” said Landes, who works in the marketing and public-relations department at the DuPont Community…
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Nine years ago, when my family lost our radio business, our community lost the voice it had known for 46 years. On May 15, 2000, WABN’s broadcast was silenced. When Congress and the Federal Communications Commission deregulated ownership of stations nationally and locally, Bristol Broadcasting Inc., a group that already owned 15 radio stations across…
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Story by Chris Graham It didn’t use to be the case that we could consider Alzheimer’s a pervasive senior health issue, if only because it didn’t use to be the case that many people lived long enough for it to be an issue. Which might be why the Alzheimer’s Association is such a relative newcomer…
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Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds delivered an address today at George Mason University outlining his vision for the future of Virginia and delineating key policy differences between himself and Republican candidate Bob McDonnell.
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Story by Chris Graham They’re about as big as a 6-foot tall male, a tad bit thicker – up to 600 pounds – and when stressed, you don’t want to find yourself sitting on top of a wildebeest. Which is precisely where second-year Virginia Tech graduate veterinary student Becky Davis found herself one day in…
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Eastern Mennonite University will have five new full-time teaching faculty when fall semester of the 2009-10 academic year begins Sept. 1.
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Friday, July 17 – Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researchers present systems biology as a clinical approach to cancer Thursday, July 16 – eVA passes $20B purchase mark – ACLU praises Newport News for action allowing tea party Thursday, July 16 – eVA passes $20B purchase mark – ACLU praises Newport News for action allowing tea party…
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