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Tuesday, Sept. 8 Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. Let me — since I neglected to do this Friday when we met in my office, and then neglected to do it yesterday on the plane, let me give you a dwindling week ahead, since if I forget it one more…
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You’ve seen the placards at health-care town halls depicting Barack Obama with a Hitler mustache. Pretty extreme, right? Not to Steve Landes. “When you’ve got a White House that’s keeping names of people that don’t agree with them, that reminds me of what went on the Soviet Union and in Nazi Germany,” Landes told a…
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today announced that $13.9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds will pay for additional improvements to wastewater treatment plants and collection systems in Norton, Lexington, Richlands, Pulaski, Wise County and Tazewell County. ARRA funding for these projects has become available after bids for previously announced projects came in…
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Thursday that Virginia teleworkers saved approximately $113,000, avoided driving 140,000 miles and removed 75.89 tons of pollutants from the air through participation in Telework Day on Aug. 3, 2009. The “What We Saved; What We Learned” report, compiled by the public-private partnership Telework Exchange, also reveals an increase in productivity…
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Ringing in a handbell choir requires teamwork and commitment over a long period of time to prepare for performances. In essence, it’s a fellowship of ringing. How appropriate, then, that this activity which requires the determination and dedication of a fellowship of ringers would finally play music from the movie which epitomizes this noble concept:…
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Dear EarthTalk: Has China been making any progress reducing its output of global warming gases, and/or in tackling other environmental problems? –Bill W., Saugus, Mass. Decades of rapid-fire development and lack of government oversight has meant that China now faces some serious environmental challenges. According to research by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, China surpassed…
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“Businesses are often born out of frustration—frustration with the economy, the state of the environment, or from an unmet need in the community,” says TiCo Colada of Passion-Knit Living Studios. “But as business owners, we are all committed to being the change we want to see, and to supporting each other along the way.”
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Oh, what a miserable month! Even in paradise. There is little good we can say when we think of August. It is a month that is too darn hot and 31 days too long. It has only one purpose – a better appreciation of September which is now upon us.
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine this week announced the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has appropriated significant funding for the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy’s Paving the Way with Propane: The AutoGas Corridor Development Program. The AutoGas Corridor Development Program is a unique, progressive project aimed at building the infrastructure for public…
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The CARS program came to a close Tuesday night with nearly 700,000 clunkers taken off the roads, replaced by far more fuel efficient vehicles. Rebate applications worth $2.877 billion were submitted by the 8 p.m. Monday deadline, under the $3 billion provided by Congress to run the program.
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