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The economic news on Wednesday wasn’t what anybody expected. The U.S. economy actually contracted by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter, off from the sluggish growth that economists had been forecasting for the retail-focused quarter.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine are joining bipartisan efforts to push immigration reform in a Congress that has been reluctant at best to move on the issue.
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Virginia head football coach Mike London announced today that offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Bill Lazor has resigned his position with the Virginia football program to accept a coaching position in the National Football League.
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CAPSAW’s Valley VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) Program will open Tuesday, Feb. 5. IRS-certified volunteers will provide free tax preparation services to qualifying taxpayers with a taxable income of $51,000 or less.
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James Madison (12-7, 6) won its fifth straight game as the Dukes downed Hofstra (8-9, 4-2) 85-62 in a regionally-televised Colonial Athletic Association women’s basketball game Sunday night at the JMU Convocation Center.
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The only thing predictable about a “short” session is that the days will be full and pass by quickly. We are more than a third of the way through the 46 day session and had real fireworks this past week. On Monday, the nation celebrated Martin Luther King Day and the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. Nevertheless, since the Virginia Constitution calls for the General Assembly to be in session, we were hard at work considering bills and resolutions. All legislation has importance to someone, but overshadowing those bills was a tactic involving redistricting that was sprung on the Senate at the close of business on Monday afternoon.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell’s comprehensive, long term transportation funding proposal, “Virginia’s Road to the Future,” would provide the Virginia Department of Transportation with approximately $1.28 billion in new state funding that could be used for 158 highway projects providing a significant investment in improving interstate pavement, secondary system bridges, mass-transit, unpaved roads and other high priority projects.
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The Augusta County Historical Society will continue its popular Stuart Series Talks with a special presentation on the Emancipation Proclamation by Dr. Holt Merchant, a professor of history at Washington & Lee University, on Thursday at 7 p.m.
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AAA Mid-Atlantic has announced the 10 hotels and three restaurants in central and western Virginia that earned the Five or Four Diamond Rating during the past 12 months. The AAA/CAA Four and Five Diamond Ratings are the travel authority’s highest designations for hotels and restaurants.
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The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee, led by Chairman State Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg), voted on Friday to defeat legislation offered by State Sen. Mark Herring (Loudoun & Fairfax) to improve voter access to the polls in Virginia.
