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Attorney-general candidate Steve Shannon today released a new plan to protect consumers against exorbitant loan rates. The plan calls for tightening restrictions on the rates charged by payday lenders, increasing penalties for lenders who break the law, and providing financial literacy education for consumers. “It is the attorney general’s responsibility to protect Virginians,” said Shannon….
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Representatives from the statewide Democratic Party campaigns and Democratic candidates for local seats in the Virginia House of Delegates will address women’s issues at a forum being sponsored by the Shenandoah Valley Democratic Coalition for Professional Women next week.
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This is just a wild guess on my part. But I believe that Ben Cline was an outstanding wrestler in college. How else can you explain that no one has ever been able to pin him down? I know I have not. Following Bates College, Virginia’s 24th District delegate earned a law degree from the…
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We’re going to have some Division I-quality basketball going on across the street from the AFP office this fall and this winter. “We’ll have 10, 11 guys from this team play D1,” said Ed Huckaby, the coach of the new postgrad basketball program at Fishburne Military School, which is getting its 2009-2010 season started on…
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Dirk Robertson has a home away from home in the UK – in Waynesboro. “I have always believed in the positive effect writing, as an art, can have on the community, in general. That’s what made me want to come,” said Robertson, an author and novelist who makes an annual trek across the pond for…
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The largest coalition of educational agencies and services in Virginia history is supporting the continued development of the innovative Virginia Education Wizard (www.VaWizard.org) – with a goal of making the online college and career planning tool available to all middle-school students in 2010. Virginia’s Community Colleges launched the Wizard in March as a one-stop resource…
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Yep, I’m doing it. I’m sticking up for Rush Limbaugh. (I’ve got a can of Lysol handy. OK, it’s across the hall with the folks at the Artisans Center of Virginia. One of the staff has swine flu.) Ahem. I don’t like the way the NFL treated the Boss when word started getting around that…
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Single-game tickets for all of the Virginia men’s basketball team’s non-conference home games during the 2009-10 season and Family Packages for four home games, including the Cavaliers’ Atlantic Coast Conference game with Miami, go on sale Friday, Oct. 16, at 9 a.m. exclusively on VirginiaSports.com. Telephone and ticket window sales of the non-conference home game…
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Before leaving, former UVa. basketball coach Dave Leitao did the program a big favor. He convinced four-star recruit Tristan Spurlock to stay in the fold. “I was to the point where I didn’t know what I was going to do. I didn’t know if I was going to stay, I didn’t know if I was…
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Sen. Jim Webb today called on the Senate to pass a comprehensive proposal, which he cosponsored, to extend unemployment insurance by up to 14 additional weeks for jobless workers in all 50 states. Nearly two million out-of-work Americans face expiring benefits by the end of the year. The critical measure was stalled last week by…
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