Elon University to join CAA in 2014
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Elon University has accepted an invitation of membership to join the Colonial Athletic Association in 2014, CAA Commissioner Tom Yeager announced today.
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Game times set for UVa. football games with BYU, Oregon
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As part of the announcement of early-season football television selections, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced today Virginia’s first two games of the 2013 season will be broadcast and the game times are now set for those contests.
ACC announces championship, early-season football schedules
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A fourth straight appearance in prime time for the Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game and 11 national exposures in the first three weeks of the season, including six national TV appearances on the opening weekend of the year, headline the Atlantic Coast Conference early season TV football schedule announced Thursday by the ACC.
McAuliffe campaign: Anti-gay rhetoric has no place in political discourse
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Terry McAuliffe’s campaign denounced the extreme anti-gay rhetoric of Ken Cuccinelli and E.W. Jackson on Wednesday, saying the attacks “do not represent Virginia values and have no place in political discourse.”
Terry McAuliffe releases new ad highlighting bipartisan transportation bill
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Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe released his campaign’s second advertisement today, which recounts his involvement in the February passage of Virginia’s bipartisan transportation bill–the first transportation funding measure that had been approved in the state in 27 years.
New web video highlights differences between Mark Herring, Mark Obenshain
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Today State Sen. Mark Herring released a web video comparing his record against State Sen. Mark Obenshain’s.
Sens. Warner, Kaine submit legislation to expand offshore energy leases
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) today cosponsored the introduction of The Virginia Outer Continental Shelf Energy Production Act of 2013. The legislation would expand American offshore energy production with a revised five-year leasing plan, and provide revenue sharing.
From Idea to Market workshop offered
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A workshop for area businesses interested in learning more about increasing their customer base through innovation commercialization is being offered 8:30 – 11:30am Thursday May 30 at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona. Those who attend will learn the steps to Innovation Excellence, from encouraging idea generation to taking a product or process innovation to the marketplace.
UVa. demographers’ new poverty measure finds rate in NoVa high
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Researchers at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service today unveiled a new poverty measure designed to more accurately reflect the economic distress among residents of the commonwealth.
UVa. finds possible ‘master switch’ for deadly brain cancer
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Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified a promising target for treating glioblastoma, one that appears to appears to avoid many of the obstacles that typically frustrate efforts to develop effective treatments for this deadliest of cancers.
