
Elon University to join CAA in 2014
Elon University has accepted an invitation of membership to join the Colonial Athletic Association in 2014, CAA Commissioner Tom Yeager announced today.

Elon University has accepted an invitation of membership to join the Colonial Athletic Association in 2014, CAA Commissioner Tom Yeager announced today.

Today State Sen. Mark Herring released a web video comparing his record against State Sen. Mark Obenshain’s.

The Harrisonburg Community Health Center (HCHC) received a $12,500 check from Emmett Toms, Manager, Dominion Resources, to support its Telemedicine Program for high-risk pregnant women.

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia gave State Sen. Ralph Northam a 100 percent rating today.

The SWAG Writers (Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writers Club) Reading Series continues with a reading by novelists Betsy Ashton (Smith Mountain Lake, VA), Mollie Cox Bryan (Waynesboro, VA), and Sarah Kennedy (Lexington, VA).

Virginia Republicans formally nominated Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to run for governor in 2013, and added as his ticketmates Mark Obenshain, a Harrisonburg state senator, as the attorney-general nominee, and E.W. Jackson, a Chesapeake-based Baptist minister, as the nominee for lieutenant governor.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) today urged Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to reconsider his decision to furlough almost 11,000 teachers at Defense Department-operated schools for up to five days as part of the Pentagon’s plan to comply with budget cuts required due to the sequester.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe has opened up a slight 43-38 percent lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the race to become Virginia’s next governor, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Democracy for America (DFA) today announced the hiring of Kyran McCann as the State Director of its Purple to Blue Project in Virginia. McCann was most recently the District Director of CREDO SuperPAC’s successful 2012 campaign to defeat Tea Party extremist Joe Walsh in Illinois 8th Congressional District.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the Armed Services Committee, joined two measures today to combat sexual assault in the military in the wake of continuing reports of increased anecdotal and systemic failures to adequately address unwanted sexual contact within the military.
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