Morgan Griffith: Priorities for the new Congress
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On Jan. 20, Joe Biden will be sworn in as president of the United States.
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City of Harrisonburg names Angela Clem new director of human resources
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Angela Clem, who currently serves as the town manager in Woodstock, will join the Harrisonburg Executive Leadership Team starting March 1.
Destruction and displacement: Virginia Tech professor earns grant to explore effects of interstate highway system
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The interstate highway system launched in the 1950s as the most ambitious public works project in the world. Spanning 48,000 miles, the system aimed to connect cities and towns throughout the nation.
NRCS to honor top volunteer at Virtual Forage Conference
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The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service will recognize Virginia’s top Earth Team volunteer Keith Thomas at the Virginia Forage and Grassland Council Winter Forage Conference.
Chesapeake’s health gets a D+ amid mixed progress, assessment finds
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The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has stagnated the last two years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation reports, with upticks in water quality offset by a worrisome decline in striped bass, the popular finfish also known regionally as rockfish.
Lawsuit: Stop Trump administration’s parting shot at national forests
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A lawsuit filed Friday seeks to reverse the Trump administration’s elimination of safeguards that have protected national forests from unneeded, ill-conceived and destructive logging, road building, and utility right-of-way projects.
Pathways for Future Engineers, VDOT team up for first-generation college students
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In spring, when 17-year-old John R. Lewis High School student Kadija Ismail, of Springfield, learned she’d been accepted into the Virginia Tech Pathways for Future Engineers program, she wasn’t sure she fit the bill as a future engineer.
Beyer, Wexton lead inquiry into DHS, FBI handling of threats ahead of Capitol attack
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Virginia Democrats Don Beyer and Jennifer Wexton led 35 members of Congress in seeking answers from the Department of Homeland Security and FBI regarding the departments’ digital threat monitoring prior to the deadly insurrection at the United States Capitol.
Researchers: Removal of dairy cows would have minimal impact on greenhouse emissions
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The dairy industry in the United States contributes approximately 1.58 percent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions.
Staunton businesses affected by August flood rise above devastation
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A summer night in early August brought too much rain in too brief of an amount of time. The night of Aug. 8 will never be forgotten by downtown business owners and the Staunton community.
