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Business leaders endorse Terry McAuliffe for governor

Published date: June 10, 2013 | 10:37 pm

Updated: May 27, 2025 | 8:30 pm

Prominent Virginia business leaders Jimmy Hazel, S. Buford Scott and David Addison announced their support for Terry McAuliffe on Monday. Hazel is the current chairman of Virginia FREE (Virginia Foundation for Research and Economic Education), a nonpartisan organization which provides information to Virginia’s business community in order to advance responsible, pro-business government. Scott is a former Chairman of Virginia FREE and Addison is currently a member of their Board of Directors.

Norm Dicks and Lynn Scarlett: Loss of open space can affect rural economies

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Published date: June 10, 2013 | 1:26 pm

Each year, an estimated 2 million acres of America’s farms, ranches, forests, wildlife habitat, and other open spaces are fragmented into smaller parcels or lost to development, according to the President’s Annual Economic Report to Congress.

Sean Moulton and Sofia Plagakis: Are dangerous chemicals stored near you?

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Published date: June 10, 2013 | 1:22 pm

Updated: June 10, 2013 | 1:23 pm

Federal investigators from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board and other agencies are still sifting through the debris in West, Texas to determine why a fire in a fertilizer plant ignited an explosion of ammonium nitrate that killed at least 14 people, injured more than 200, and destroyed two schools, a nursing home, and dozens of homes.

Earth Talk: Monarch butterflies in sharp decline

Roddy Scheer

Published date: June 10, 2013 | 1:18 pm

Updated: July 19, 2025 | 6:38 pm

The monarch butterfly, royally adorned in black, white and reddish-orange and able to migrate as far as 2,800 miles, is a true wonder of nature. Each year monarchs travel from Canada and the U.S. to hibernate in the forests of central Mexico. But in recent years the monarchs have been in sharp population decline due to habitat loss, eradication of the plants it depends upon and other environmental factors.

Waynesboro YMCA, Augusta Health partnering in cancer study

Chris Graham

Published date: June 6, 2013 | 5:14 pm

Updated: May 29, 2025 | 8:42 pm

The Waynesboro Family YMCA is proudly partnering with Augusta Health and the American Cancer Society to participate in ACS’s upcoming Cancer Prevention Study-3.

Bill Bolling’s Virginia Mainstream Project announces GOP primary picks

Chris Graham

Published date: June 6, 2013 | 10:08 am

Updated: August 21, 2025 | 3:38 pm

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling today announced the Virginia Mainstream Project’s support of candidates in several contested Republican primaries this month. Bolling recently created the VMP in part to focus on electing mainstream, conservative Republicans to public office.

Terry McAuliffe touts more GOP support

Chris Graham

Published date: June 5, 2013 | 11:22 pm

Updated: May 27, 2025 | 8:30 pm

Republicans Milt Peterson and Jan Schar endorsed Terry McAuliffe for Governor of Virginia on Tuesday, the second announcement this week that major Republicans in Virginia are backing McAuliffe instead of GOP candidate Ken Cuccinelli.

McDonnell signs school, campus safety legislation

Chris Graham

Published date: June 5, 2013 | 11:19 pm

Updated: May 6, 2025 | 7:46 pm

At an event at Robious Elementary School in Midlothian, Gov. Bob McDonnell today signed 12 pieces of legislation designed to make Virginia’s schools and campuses safer.

Sen. Tim Kaine presses Pentagon brass on sexual assaults

Chris Graham

Published date: June 5, 2013 | 12:55 am

Updated: May 13, 2025 | 4:12 pm

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the Armed Services Committee, today pressed top military officials on the escalating crisis of sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact in the military.

Waynesboro Brownfield Redevelopment Planning Project kickoff meeting

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Published date: June 3, 2013 | 3:52 pm

Updated: June 4, 2013 | 10:04 am

The City of Waynesboro announces the first of numerous events related to the U.S. Environmental Protected Agency funded Brownfields Redevelopment Planning Project for targeted revitalization areas in the City.

Search Results for environment

Business leaders endorse Terry McAuliffe for governor

Norm Dicks and Lynn Scarlett: Loss of open space can affect rural economies

Sean Moulton and Sofia Plagakis: Are dangerous chemicals stored near you?

Earth Talk: Monarch butterflies in sharp decline

Waynesboro YMCA, Augusta Health partnering in cancer study

Bill Bolling’s Virginia Mainstream Project announces GOP primary picks

Terry McAuliffe touts more GOP support

McDonnell signs school, campus safety legislation

Sen. Tim Kaine presses Pentagon brass on sexual assaults

Waynesboro Brownfield Redevelopment Planning Project kickoff meeting

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