Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell statement on Obama State of the Union address
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Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell (R-Stafford) responded Tuesday to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address.
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Keystone Pipeline: Foreign profits, American risk
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Media coverage of the Keystone pipeline is coalescing around a single narrative: environmentalists oppose the pipeline because of climate change concerns, and U.S. construction companies support the pipeline because it creates jobs.
Transcript: President Obama delivers the State of the Union
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Transcript of President Obama delivering the 2015 State of the Union address to Congress.
Robert Hurt: The House continues to work for Fifth District priorities
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This week, we in the House continued to address two of the most urgent priorities I hear about from Fifth District Virginians.
Martin Luther King, 1963, and me
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On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his impassioned “I Have a Dream Speech at the Lincoln Memorial. Two weeks earlier, a young girl played in the first integrated tennis match on the public courts of Richmond, Va.
Farm organization supports normalized relations with Cuba
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The nation’s largest agricultural organization has voiced support for President Obama’s move toward normalized relations between the United States and Cuba.
What is being done to protect grizzly bears?
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Before European colonization of North America, upwards of 50,000 grizzly bears—also known as brown bears—roamed free across what is now the continental United States.
Richmond sets records in rout of Davidson, 89-63
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Just 48 hours after a tough road loss in double overtime, the Richmond Spiders played 40 minutes of dominant basketball in an 89-63 win over Davidson.
W&L professor Jeffrey Barnett publishes The Memory of Silence
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In November, Jeffrey Barnett, professor of Spanish and director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Washington and Lee University, flew to Miami for the launch of his new book, a translation of Uva de Aragón’s The Memory of Silence.
Augusta County Historical Society offers Library of Congress tour
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The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library and the repository of a remarkable collection of photos, maps, recordings and historical items.
