
Legislators encourage DOE to extend public service loan forgiveness deadline
On Oct. 31, 2022, public service workers have a deadline for review by the U.S. Department of Education to possibly receive loan forgiveness.

On Oct. 31, 2022, public service workers have a deadline for review by the U.S. Department of Education to possibly receive loan forgiveness.

More than three in 10 Americans are considering coming out of retirement and returning to the workforce.
Mary Baldwin University President Pamela R. Fox will retire as the university’s ninth president on June 30, 2023, after two decades at the Staunton-based liberal-arts school.

The office of Gov. Glenn Youngkin tried to put a positive spin on jobs numbers this week, touting a 100,000 more people working since January milestone, but inside the numbers, job growth appears to have stalled.

Cancer patients who live in rural areas experience higher mortality rates than nonrural cancer patients, according to recently published research from the VCU Massey Cancer Center.
Virginia’s Community Colleges are gearing up to train thousands of workers to help rebuild the commonwealth’s aging roads and bridges and bring much needed upgrades to airports, ports and utilities statewide.

The U.S. House, in a 220-207 party-line vote, passed the Inflation Reduction Act, signature legislation pushed by President Biden that will lower healthcare costs, combat climate change and tackle the root causes of record-breaking inflation.

A year after his last embarrassing appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline was back again on Saturday with another awful speech.

In the train station at the entrance to James Madison’s Montpelier, The Montpelier Station Post Office in Orange County opened for business in 1912.
The members of Virginia’s largest private industry will gather at the 2022 Virginia Ag Expo on August 4 to examine the latest trends, technologies, and research in agriculture that will help shape the agricultural future.
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