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Streamlining effort could raise revenues, but at the cost of jobs Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] The state of Virginia is losing as much as $400 million a year to uncollected taxes from Internet retailers. Streamlining a process for collecting them isn’t as easy as some would like to make it out to…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Two homers by Cody Reine helped fuel an offensive explosion that lifted Oklahoma to a deciding third game with Virginia in their Super Regional matchup. Reine drove in five OU runs as the Sooners got to UVa. sfarter Robert Morey early in a 10-7 win on Sunday. The teams…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello will hold a telephone town hall meeting with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on Thursday, June 17, from 6:50 p.m. -7:50 p.m. to address issues of importance to rural communities. To join the call, participants can dial toll-free 877.229.8493 and enter access code…
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Win another weekend series. That’s all Brian O’Connor’s UVa. baseball has to do to get back to the College World Series. “We’ve won every series we’ve played in this season except one, and it comes down this weekend to a three-game series. We’ve got to approach it the same way, and if we do, hopefully…
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Letter from Ward Scull Submit letters: [email protected] Some Virginians know, but many don’t know, that car title, payday, and open ended lenders charge interest rates of 300 percent, 400 percent APR or more on their loans. By any definition, this is usury. But usury is legal in Virginia under laws passed and reaffirmed every…
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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com We did not have a television in our home until I was 16 years old. When Dad finally made some extra money raising broiler chickens in addition to his full-time job doing maintenance work on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, he took the extra hundred dollars and bought us…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Virginia General Assembly’s Joint Rules Committee, consisting of seven members of the Virginia House of Delegates and seven members of the Senate of Virginia and chaired by William J. Howell, speaker of the House of Delegates, met yesterday and approved $3.3 million in legislative branch savings for the…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge is pleased to announce a new partnership with Great Aspirations Scholarship Program Inc., a Virginia-based nonprofit charitable organization funded by school systems, foundations, businesses and individual donors that assists students and families obtain funding for post-secondary education. GRASP strives to provide every…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Six Virginia baseball players were selected Tuesday in the second day of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. The six selections matches a program-best, equaling the six picks in 2007 and 2008. Jarrett Parker (Stafford, Va.) was a second-round pick (74th overall) of the San Francisco Giants. Phil…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] James Madison junior closer Kevin Munson (Roanoke, Va./Cave Spring) was selected in the fourth round, number 121 overall, of the 2010 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday afternoon. “It seemed like forever. honestly,” said Munson of waiting for the selection. “I didn’t see it pop up. I…
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