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Gov. Bob McDonnell is pushing a bipartisan higher-education initiative that he says will help Virginia colleges and universities issue an additional 100,000 degrees over the next 15 years. “Every student in Virginia deserves the opportunity to get a high-quality education at an affordable price. Virginia’s higher education institutions are among the best in the nation….
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As a business owner who has created hundreds of jobs over the past two decades, I understand economic policies that build sustainable growth. Yet the billions in tax cuts for the wealthy just signed into law compromise our shared future. The promise of “trickle down” economics has failed. When recent studies suggest that 1 in…
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“Conversations on Attachment: Integrating the Science of Love and Spirituality,” will be held March 31-April 1, 2011, at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg. The conference, a first of its kind, will bring together nationally-recognized experts from a variety of disciplines to apply key insights from attachment theory to current research and practice. Program planner Tara…
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Have you thought about your New Year’s resolutions for 2011? According to researchers at the University of Scranton, Americans who make New Year’s resolutions are 11 times more likely to succeed in meeting a goal or tackling a problem than individuals that do not. So this year, while you are mulling over meaningful resolutions to…
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I spent several Tuesdays with a man named Karl Baumann back in 1998 learning about the World War II prisoner of war camp out near Sherando Lake. I’d considered myself a student of history, but I’d never known about Stateside POW camps until visiting the Waynesboro Heritage Museum one summer day and asking an innocent…
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Access to justice for victims of civil and human rights violations has been severely curbed over the last decade in Virginia and across the nation, according to a report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union. The report shows how indigent capital defendants, victims of torture, immigrants, and abused domestic workers, among others, are…
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Interest in collecting payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) from charitable nonprofit organizations is likely to grow as cash-strapped municipalities seek additional revenue, according to a new report by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. But cities and towns should collaborate with colleges, universities, medical facilities and other nonprofits that are exempt from paying property…
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The Waynesboro-based DuPont Community Credit Union won a pair of first-place honors among three awards given recently by the Virginia Credit Union League and the Credit Union National Association. DCCU won first place in the Desjardins Youth Financial Education Awards for credit unions. The Desjardins Awards honor credit unions for their commitment to teaching personal…
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Natural disasters, traumatic events, crises to families and terrorist threats are on the rise in the world. James Madison University’s graduate psychology department is ready to respond. Beginning January 2011, JMU will offer a Ph.D. in Counseling and Supervision. The innovative program will address urgent national needs to train and supervise more master’s-level counselors. Its…
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In past issues, we have been leading on my yellow (no pun) brick road to ascertain why I had hematuria (blood in the urine). A urologist commented on the previous article, and please listen to his note. I shall add that a man after the age of 40 should get his prostate checked every year….
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