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Do the data on growth back up conclusions of school redistricting committee? Column by Terry Short Submit guest columns: [email protected] Purpose Statement: “To address increasing enrollment in Westwood Hills Elementary School and changing student/teacher ratios in all elementary school.” – from Recommendation for Redistricting Elementary Schools for the 2010-2011 School Year, Waynesboro Public Schools (12/11/09)…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Most turnaround professionals predict a hard slog toward economic recovery in 2010 as businesses weighed down by debt hit rough patches and credit markets shun them. Nearly half (49 percent) the respondents to the Turnaround Management Association’s distressed industries forecast think durable economic improvement is unlikely until at least…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.perriello.house.gov As we close out 2009, here is a summary of all that we have accomplished during my first year in office. When I was sworn in almost a year ago, our economy was on the brink of collapse. While we still have a long way to go toward complete…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Industrial employment in Virginia fell 7.1 percent over the past 12 months according to the 2010 Virginia Manufacturers Directory, an industrial directory published annually by the Evanston, Ill.,-based Manufacturers’ News Inc. MNI reports Virginia lost 26,531 industrial jobs and 377 manufacturers between October 2008 and October 2009.
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Waynesboro still in limbo on economic-development position Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Sixteen months and counting. That’s how long it has been since the city government in Waynesboro had its economic-development director post filled. Things seemed to be winding down on that until the news started circulating in City Hall late last week that the…
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Augusta Health Foundation monies help agencies help those most in need Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Running a food pantry isn’t easy even when times are supposedly good. Try getting enough food in to help those who are in need when things aren’t so good. “These organizations didn’t see a commensurate increase in donations to…
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Column by Greg LeRoy Submit guest columns, letters: [email protected] Aside from health-care reform, probably the most divisive issue in Washington today is the $787 billion economic stimulus program. One camp argues that the Recovery Act has done a good job in preventing the country from plunging into a more serious crisis than the one…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte www.goodlatte.house.gov The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released November unemployment numbers. For the second month in a row, the unemployment rate is at 10 percent – the highest rate in 26 years. Equally sobering is the fact that last month the national debt surpassed $12 trillion. Earlier this year,…
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Speech at The Brookings Institution www.whitehouse.gov Almost exactly one year ago, on a frigid winter’s day, I met with my new economic team at the headquarters of my presidential transition offices in Chicago. And over the course of four hours, my advisors presented an analysis of where the economy at that time stood, accompanied…
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Video Essay by Chris Graham [email protected] What about those White House party crashers? We haven’t had something this salacious to talk about since, well, the balloon boy. With unemployment at 10 percent, with the health-care system in bad need of reform, with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seemingly at no end, does it really…
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