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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today a new initiative to help raise funds for Virginians recovering from April’s devastating tornadoes while supporting the University of Virginia baseball team as it competes for a national title in the College World Series in Omaha. Starting tomorrow, and continuing every weekday in which the UVa team plays in the…
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A year ago, in the midst of over nine percent unemployment and a quickly escalating 13 trillion dollar national debt, the White House launched its “Recovery Summer” tour in an effort to gain support for its failed trillion dollar stimulus plan. Since the stimulus was signed into law, what we have seen is anything but…
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Some older adults living in Staunton, Augusta County, and Waynesboro will be able to receive free cooling devices this summer, thanks to the FAN CARE Program jointly sponsored by Valley Program for Aging Services (VPAS), Virginia Department for the Aging and Dominion Virginia Power Company. This program starts June 15 and ends September 30. The…
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The Virginia baseball team started the 2011 College World Series strong with a 4-1 victory over California on Sunday afternoon in front of 21,275 spectators at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha. Virginia (55-10) advances into the winners’ bracket to play the winner of the Sunday evening South Carolina-Texas A&M game at 7 p.m. Tuesday (ET) on…
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When Jared King made the last out of the sixth inning, it was more significant than snuffing out another Virginia rally. The King out meant that light-hitting Keith Weman would lead off the seventh. You’d much rather have Werman, hitting .207 at the time, up with a runner on base that he could move over…
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It wasn’t a surprise that Danny Hultzen was going to have to give the ball up earlier than Brian O’Connor would have liked given how many pitches he had thrown – 113 in six and a third innings. The surprise to me was who O’Connor gave the ball to next: Tyler Wilson, who I’d presumed…
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The Virginia baseball team started the 2011 College World Series strong with a 4-1 victory over California on Sunday afternoon in front of 21,275 spectators at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha. Virginia (55-10) advances into the winners’ bracket to play the winner of the Sunday evening South Carolina-Texas A&M game at 7 p.m. Tuesday (ET) on…
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CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals with operations in the Charlottesville area, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Brussels, will invest $24.5 million to establish its operations center in the City of Charlottesville, creating 45 new jobs. The organization plans to redevelop the former Martha Jefferson Hospital facility. “The adaptive reuse of the…
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Virginia’s Danny Hultzen (Jr., Bethesda, Md.), Branden Kline (So., Frederick, Md.) and Will Roberts (Jr., Richmond, Va.) each were named All-Americans Wednesday. Hultzen was named a first-team All-American at the utility position on the Baseball America and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) All-America teams. Kline was selected as a First-Team NCBWA All-American as a…
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May state-revenue collections increased by 17.9 percent over the prior year. This is the 14th month out of the last 15 in which state-revenue collections exceeded the previous year’s amount. It is the sixth out of the last seven in which year-over-year revenue growth was greater than 9 percent. The revenue increase was primarily driven…
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