Harrisonburg marks National Bike Month
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Harrisonburg and the national League of American Bicyclists announce that May is National Bike Month, May 9 is Bike to School Day, and Friday, May 18 is Bike to Work Day
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McDonnell signs economic-development legislation
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today ceremonially signed job creation and economic development legislation, including measures from his 2012 jobs and economic development agenda
McDonnell offers up budget amendments
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Gov. Bob McDonnell submitted his amendments to the budget passed by the General Assembly during the 2012 special session
Earth Talk: Drilling in the Arctic
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The oil industry is planning what some call a dangerous strategy of drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Arctic Ocean
Webb: Lift all economic sanctions against Burma
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Sen. Jim Webb, whose historic trip to Burma in 2009 set the stage for a new direction in U.S. policy toward that country, today called for the Administration “to facilitate reforms in Burma (Myanmar) through the lifting of economic sanctions.” Sen. Webb, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, was…
Lumos Networks introduces Colocation as first Data Center Services product
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Lumos Networks (NASDAQ: LMOS), a leading provider of fiber-based services across the Mid-Atlantic region, today introduced Colocation as the first product in the Lumos Networks Data Center Services portfolio. Colocation services provide a secure environment for customers’ servers and data storage, enabling them to reduce risks such as security breaches, fire and flood. “Through Colocation…
JMU’s first engineers getting job, grad-school offers
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It has been four years since they entered a program unlike any other in Virginia, and the results indicate they made a good choice. Of the 45 students who make up the inaugural class of the JMU School of Engineering, 24 already have secured full-time engineering jobs. Another 12 will be heading off to graduate…
Farmers pleased about withdrawn youth labor regs
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Farm families and their relatives across Virginia are welcoming the recent decision to withdraw proposed federal restrictions on underage farm employees. “Agriculture is something that is learned” at the side of an older farmer, said Jonathan Cavin, a Lee County beef, produce and tobacco grower who recalled helping his father plow fields when he was…
Bridgewater College approves strategic plan through 2020
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A strategic plan to guide Bridgewater College through 2020 has been approved by the college’s board of trustees. “BC 2020: The Strategic Plan for Bridgewater College” identifies key areas that are critical to the success of Bridgewater in the next eight years and presents strategies for achieving goals within those areas. Areas addressed in the…
Karen Kwiatkowski: A happy marriage between democratic socialism and corporate capitalism
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Complaints are rampant about the draft 2012 federal Farm Bill. Farm subsidy recipients are enraged about proposed cuts, even as the same benefits would flow to them through direct payments and insurance offsets. Sustainable small farm and local food efforts complain that they are getting short shrift, and corporate agriculture is busily lobbying for its…
