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Featured: Jim McKelvey, Bill Bolling, Creigh Deeds Jim McKelvey: Senate Bill 481 www.mckelveyforcongress.com Once again politicians at every level of government do not get it. State Sen. Robert Hurt introduced SB 481; this bill essentially lowers the number of new employees a business must hire to be eligible for a tax credit. We need to…
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Column by Scott Rogers www.harrisonburghousingreport.com January 2010 sales (45) topped January 2009 sales (38). Furthermore, each of the preceding three months (Oct ’09, Nov ’09 and Dec ’09) showed equal or greater home sales than the same month in 2008. Could it be that the pace of our local real estate market is finally picking…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] The rate of population growth in Virginia is increasing again for the first time since the beginning of the recession, according to the latest estimates from the Demographics and Workforce Group of the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The Cooper Center’s population estimates are the…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Everything you wanted to know about the State of the Union, but were afraid to ask. We have the full texts and videos of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s Republican response. We also have reactions from Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, congressmen…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] A Virginia Tech-led team of almost 20 partners has won $3.8 million in federal stimulus money to train workers for new, green jobs in the construction industry. The grant is expected to train some 400 workers over two years. “Faculty from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering and College…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] As U.S. mayors gathered in Washington this week to meet with the Obama administration about unemployment and the economy, Virginia local government officials and community leaders are calling for the creation of a Community Jobs program. The jobs program would provide funding to localities across the country to create…
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Staff Report EMU news: www.emu.edu When asked a number of times in the past to speak about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Luke A. Hartman declined. But he accepted an invitation to speak in a chapel service Friday, Jan. 15, at Eastern Mennonite University to open several days of activities to recognize and pay…
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Column by Scott Rogers www.harrisonburghousingmarket.com With 2009 having come to a close, I have published my first market report of 2010. Home sales finished out at a respectable level in 2009, showing only a 13 percent decline from 2008 as compared to the 25 percent decline in sales pace seen between 2007 and 2008….
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] The Staunton Office of Economic Development in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development’s Enterprise Zone Program Office will host two enterprise zone workshops – one at 3 p.m. and one at 5:30 p.m. – on Tuesday in City Council Chambers on the first floor of…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.perriello.house.gov Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” In…
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