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Via expects Hanover board to maintain its focus
Richmond Times-Dispatch Local News
Feb 06The Hanover Board of Supervisors elected Ashland District Supervisor G.E. "Ed" Via III as its chairman last month. »
‘Personal Safety in the 21st Century’ to be addressed Tuesday
Mechanicsville
Jan 25Ashland Police Department hosting educational event at Ashland Church of God »
Moving Day: Home sales over $500,000
Richmond Bizsense
Jan 24The monthly run-down of home sales over $500,000 from data provided by the Realtor's Association. This month, all sorts of high-end homes including farm houses in Goochland, a Georgian house in Ashland and a cabin-like home in Chesterfield. »
Butylfuel merges with company in U.K.
Richmond Times-Dispatch Local News
Jan 20A renewable-chemicals and biofuels company with offices in the Dominion Resources GreenTech Incubator in Ashland has merged with a United Kingdom-based industrial biotechnology company. »
New Richmond-Norfolk rail service to begin by year's end
Richmond Times-Dispatch Breaking News
Jan 18The train will stop in Petersburg, Richmond's Staples Mill station and Ashland before traveling to Washington and on to New York and Boston. »
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Moving Day: Home sales over $500,000
Richmond Bizsense
Jan 24The monthly run-down of home sales over $500,000 from data provided by the Realtor's Association. This month, all sorts of high-end homes including farm houses in Goochland, a Georgian house in Ashland and a cabin-like home in Chesterfield. »
The R&D Dept.: Local Patents for 1.18.12
Richmond Bizsense
Jan 18Loads of patents this week including inventions from MeadWestvaco, Afton Chemical and a high-tech defense contractor in Ashland »
Why Do We Subsidize Roads But Expect Profits From Amtrak?
Blue Virginia
Jan 10Federal, state & local governments spent nearly $193 billion on highways in 2008, recouping only about $30 billion of that in toll revenue. That means highways lost $160 billion, money we spent with no expectation of ever getting it back. Yet when Cong... »
Why Do We Subsidize Roads But Expect Profits From Amtrak?
The Green Miles
Jan 10Last year, America's highways lost more than $40 billion, federal transportation dollars we spent with no expectation of ever getting it back. Yet when Congress spends a little over $1 billion on Amtrak, why do Republicans expect it to turn a profit? I... »
Christmas Newsletter
Caroline Virginia BlogJennifer Rathbun
Dec 21Another year has gone and I’m left wondering if it’s just me or was it only a few weeks ago that we started saying 2011? As I’m reflecting back on 2011, I’m trying to remember all that we did. Did we make a difference? What lessons did we learn that we... »