
Eric Payne: Don’t make credit more expensive for struggling Americans
Distressingly, some in DC are floating the idea of making access to credit more expensive for low-income consumers.

Distressingly, some in DC are floating the idea of making access to credit more expensive for low-income consumers.

Gov. Ralph Northam this week announced new grants that will advance Virginia 90 percent to the goal of achieving universal access to broadband and high-speed internet.

Virginia Tech’s College Access Collaborative welcomed more than 100 students from Virginia and North Carolina to the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte over two weekends in October.

UVision USA Corporation, a developer of unmanned military systems, will invest $2.2 million to establish a production and training center in Stafford County.

Congressman A. Donald McEachin announced the winners of the 2021 Congressional App Challenge: 11th graders Reagan Duffy and Michael Beauchamp from Chesapeake.

The Virginia High School League adopted a policy in 2018 requiring players who use racial slurs to be ejected from the contest immediately and serve a one-game suspension.

The USDA has approved the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services plan to regulate hemp production in the Commonwealth.

Three properties in Charlottesville and Albemarle County owned by the University or the University of Virginia Foundation have been selected as the sites proposed for a new housing development initiative.

Gov. Ralph Northam is proposing a slew of tax cuts in next year’s state budget, trying to get ahead of Gov.-elect Youngkin by targeting the tax cuts at working folks, probably correctly assuming that Republicans will want the windfall to go to the already wealthy.

All Points Broadband has received a grant award of $95.3 million through the Virginia Telecommunication Initiative program.
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