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Darden School of Business launches resilience competition

Published date: April 30, 2012 | 10:39 am

Updated: April 30, 2012 | 10:42 am

The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is launching its third annual Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards competition. Darden is accepting applications and recommendations from qualifying Virginia businesses at www.resilienceawards.org through 2 July. To assist businesses and communities nationwide, this year’s competition emphasizes how Virginia’s most resilient businesses adapted to—and are helping their communities recover…

Creigh Deeds: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Creigh Deeds

Published date: April 26, 2012 | 6:55 pm

Updated: July 30, 2025 | 12:18 pm

On the 18th day of April, about six weeks after the procedural resolution called for the passage of a budget, Virginia’s General Assembly, together for a Veto Session, finally passed a budget. There is much in the budget to like, some items not to like, and signs for the future that are very worrisome.

Webb joins senators in letter on Asia-Pacific basing

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Published date: April 24, 2012 | 10:03 pm

Updated: April 24, 2012 | 10:04 pm

U.S. Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) today sent the following letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta regarding a new agreement with the Government of Japan on U.S. force posture in the Asia-Pacific region.

EMU falls on Senior Day

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Published date: April 19, 2012 | 11:44 pm

Thursday’s Senior Recognition was perfect on many levels, all except for the final outcome. After getting rained out on Wednesday, Eastern Mennonite’s baseball men honored their five seniors under beautiful skies, but then visiting Washington and Lee stole the show by handing the Royals a 9-3 loss. Senior starter Andy Richter (Perkasie, PA/Christopher Dock) was…

Finally! Legislators agree on state budget

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Published date: April 18, 2012 | 8:12 pm

A day after deadlocking once again on the $85 billion spending plan for the 2012-2014 biennium, a sudden break by Democratic State Sen. Chuck Colgan from what had been unified Democratic Party opposition to the state budget led to its passage on Wednesday. Colgan, D-Prince William, told reporters after the 21-19 vote in the Senate…

Whitfield speaks at White House forum

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Published date: April 18, 2012 | 7:56 pm

Blue Ridge Legal Services Executive Director John Whitfield was a panelist Tuesday at a White House forum examining the state of civil legal assistance for low-income Americans. The forum was co-hosted by the Legal Services Corporation. Whitfield said that the “double whammy” of severe cuts in both federal and IOLTA funding has forced the program…

Kaine: Senate needs to make ‘hard decisions’

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Published date: April 17, 2012 | 10:35 pm

Updated: May 13, 2025 | 4:13 pm

Second in a series Tim Kaine had thought, like a lot of us did, that his political career was over. In January 2010, Kaine finished up his term as governor of Virginia, and looked out a landscape in Virginia politics that featured two Democrats, Jim Webb and Mark Warner, representing the Commonwealth in the United…

Chris Graham: A new look at Tebow Time

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Published date: April 17, 2012 | 1:02 pm

He’s such an athlete. So physical. Look at the guy. OK, he might not make a good NFL quarterback, but you’ve got to figure a way to get him on the field. How many black college quarterbacks have we heard that said about over the years? Except that now we’re saying it about good ol’…

Virginians overwhelmingly support ban on gas drilling in national forests

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Published date: April 16, 2012 | 9:32 pm

Updated: May 2, 2012 | 10:24 am

Seventy percent of Virginians who sent comments to the U.S. Forest Service support a ban on horizontal drilling for natural gas on the George Washington National Forest, according to an analysis released Monday by the Shenandoah Valley Network and the Bergton-based Land, Air, Water Stewardship Action group. The report documenting broad public support for the…

Blue Ridge Legal Services director to participate in White House forum on legal aid

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Published date: April 15, 2012 | 10:52 am

Blue Ridge Legal Services Executive Director John Whitfield is one of six legal services program directors selected to participate in a White House forum examining the state of civil legal assistance for low-income Americans. The forum, co-hosted by the Legal Services Corporation, will take place on Tuesday, April 17.

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Darden School of Business launches resilience competition

Creigh Deeds: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Webb joins senators in letter on Asia-Pacific basing

EMU falls on Senior Day

Finally! Legislators agree on state budget

Whitfield speaks at White House forum

Kaine: Senate needs to make ‘hard decisions’

Chris Graham: A new look at Tebow Time

Virginians overwhelmingly support ban on gas drilling in national forests

Blue Ridge Legal Services director to participate in White House forum on legal aid

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