Holton leads small-business talk in Chesterfield
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Anne Holton campaigned on behalf of her husband, U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine, in Chesterfield County, on Thursday
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MedExpress opens new location in Staunton
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MedExpress Urgent Care, the leader in providing full-service, walk-in urgent care, opened its fourth center in Virginia today at 1209 Richmond Ave. in Staunton. MedExpress also operates centers in Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Deborah Conner: What’s the matter with making a profit?
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Had interesting conversation at the Darjeeling Café last week. Was a sort of grilling by a stranger, really. “What’s wrong with making a profit?” he kept repeating. I’d mentioned that multinational companies like Exxon Mobil’s XTO are selling U.S. liquid natural gas overseas, reaping five to six times the domestic price doing it
Award-winning quartet at WTA’s Gateway
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The award winning Andrew McKnight and Beyond Borders will bring their exciting fusion of musical genres to WTA’s Gateway on Saturday, July 14. The performance, supported by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, begins at 8 pm at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro
Earth Talk: Natural gas as automotive fuel?
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It is difficult to say which of the growing number of fuel options will power the cars of the future. But natural gas, given its domestic abundance, low price and lesser carbon footprint, is certainly a contender, at least as far as researchers at the federally funded Argonne National Laboratory are concerned
Capital One to invest $150M in Chesterfield County facility
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Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) will invest more than $150 million to establish a new data center in Chesterfield County
Earth Talk: Making renewable energies competitive
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Given the importance of abundant amounts of energy for Americans, the federal government tends to subsidize all forms of energy development, including fossil fuels and renewables. A recently released report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that in 2011 the federal government spent $16 billion of our tax dollars in subsidies for the development of renewable energy and increased energy efficiency, and only $2.5 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry in the form of tax breaks
Earth Talk: Sustainable communities
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Sustainable communities take a long-term perspective, focusing on “both the present and future, well beyond the next budget or election cycle” so that the needs of the current as well as future generations are met with adequate resources
U.S. Chamber commends Virginia as ‘Most Livable State’
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce commended Virginia as America’s “Most Livable State” in its annual “Enterprising States: Policies that Produce” ranking. The report noted that Virginia ranks #1 nationally in median family income, STEM job concentration and in the high-tech share of all businesses
Virginia launches V3 Initiative to increase veteran employment
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Representing companies ranging in size from 20 employees up to corporations such as Anthem, Dominion Resources and Amazon.com, hiring managers and senior executives in attendance all had two essential qualifications in common: they are all hiring in Virginia and are committed to hiring military veterans
