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A new program involving state government and a group of Virginia banks and credit unions aims at protecting consumers and financial institutions from fake-check scams. Sixty-one banks and credit unions participating in this effort will hand out a brochure created by Consumer Federation of America about fake-check scams and similar frauds to every consumer who…
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At first glance, Virginia has flipped, big time. The Old Dominion was blue in 2008, and has been bright red since, with Republicans sweeping the 2009 state races and taking three of the six seats held by incumbent Democrats in the 2010 congressional midterms. Not so fast, says Quentin Kidd, a political-science professor at Christopher…
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Virginia’s wind energy industry received a “shot in the arm” this week when Google announced it will invest $200 million in a project to harvest electricity from wind farms off the Mid-Atlantic coast. Dr. Jonathan Miles, director of the Virginia Center for Wind Energy at James Madison University, said Google’s 37.5 percent stake in the…
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Virginia is one of seven states without laws on the books regulating athlete agents. What we do have here – the ability to tell student-athletes who are considered pro prospects to, you know, stay away from big, bad agents who try to steer them down the wrong path. “What they tell us as far as…
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Party releases video on education issue Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has “done serious harm to the integrity of our system of higher education,” Democratic Party of Virginia Chairman Richard Cranwell said Friday, with his request for information relating to research conducted by former UVa. professor Michael Mann, a noted…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] There’s only a “slim chance” that oil from the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana will end up washing ashore on beaches in Virginia, according to a James Madison University professor who is a Gulf Stream expert. “The Gulf Stream, as it travels eastward, reaches its closest proximity…
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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Gov. Bob McDonnell is to be commended for appointing a Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring to “make government simpler and easier to use, more efficient and more effective.” The 30-person commission made up of businesspersons and legislators has an ambitious schedule of completing its initial report in two…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The office of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli today released a statement on the civil investigative demand made by the office of the University of Virginia for information for an investigation of former UVa. researcher Michael Mann’s work on climate change.
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] The rate of population growth in Virginia is increasing again for the first time since the beginning of the recession, according to the latest estimates from the Demographics and Workforce Group of the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The Cooper Center’s population estimates are the…
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Item by Robert Brickhouse UVa. news: www.virginia.edu Virginia is headed toward a transportation “catastrophe” if state political leaders don’t act, according to a former state transportation commissioner. Ray Pethel made that assessment in a column in the latest issue of The Virginia News Letter published by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at…
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