
Ken Plum: Inconvenient, but still true
Former Vice President Al Gore entitled his book on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. Climate change is even more true today than when Gore first focused public attention on it and its causes.

Former Vice President Al Gore entitled his book on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. Climate change is even more true today than when Gore first focused public attention on it and its causes.

Toucans, tarantulas, hoatzins, scarlet macaws, and caiman. Those are just a few of the species observed by Virginia Tech students this past summer while studying abroad in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.

As millions of Americans, including those in the small business community, consider their 2019 healthcare options, the National Association for the Self-Employed warns of the approaching deadline to enroll in a healthcare plan or change current plans.

People more recently diagnosed with cancer are more likely to drink alcohol, use tobacco, and frequent tanning beds than people in later stages of recovery.

Fans of the Star Wars franchise will have to wait more than a year from now to get their fix of Jedi-laden telekinetic spectacles on the big screen.

New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville will host a book talk and signing with Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, on Wednesday, Dec. 5.

If $2 billion of crucially needed highway improvements are made to Virginia’s Interstate 81, the surrounding region could benefit from more than $4.3 billion in business output, wages and tax revenues, according to a study released this week.

Investment Adviser Registration Depository system fees for state-registered investment adviser firms (“IAFs”) are now waived, the State Corporation Commission announced.

A powerful voice offering a woman’s point of view on politics is joining the airwaves on Virginia’s new home for state and national political news talk in Virginia – WJFN 100.5 FM on the radio dial, and www.WJFNRadio.com online.

A recent national poll released by The Pew Charitable Trusts shows the vast majority of Americans believe Congress should pass bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) to address the $12 billion maintenance backlog at the National Park Service (NPS).
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