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Feb 28, 2024

Shenandoah Valley Year-in-Review: Green valley

Just a couple years later, an $821,000 site development grant awarded to the Shenandoah Valley Partnership by the state’s GO Virginia economic development initiative has already been paying off, says Jay Langston, the partnership’s executive director. The grant, which paid for work including site evaluation and related environmental reviews and surveys, was focused on improving [&helli[...]

This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan. 7 in Portland, Oregon.
Feb 28, 2024

Va.’s Largest Companies: Emergency landing

As the U.S. economy showed signs of unexpected strength and inflation slowed throughout 2023, most of Virginia’s largest publicly traded companies held their own, with some riding high. Reston-based General Dynamics saw its highest-ever quarterly revenue, while Performance Food Group, headquartered in Goochland County, made the Fortune 100 for the first time. Arlington County-based Fortune [[...]

Feb 28, 2024

2024 Big Book intro: Invasion of the bots!

If it feels like robots took over our lives this past year, that’s because they have. Many of us have used ChatGPT to write an email, created an idealized self-portrait with Midjourney or seen a deepfake on X. Everyone has at least read marketing texts or emails created by a generative AI tool. To different […]

Feb 27, 2023

A library of business intelligence

Admittedly, many of my personal business memories start from more than just a short while ago — pre-internet days to say the least. Now that everything is online, we don’t hear much about libraries anymore, except maybe in the case of public schools. Politics aside, I’m delighted people are still interested in reading words on […]

Feb 27, 2023

It’s complicated

Going by media coverage alone, you’d be forgiven for thinking that 2021’s Great Resignation turned into “quiet quitting” in 2022, but as always, the national mood is more complicated than any two-word phrase could convey. There are still significant labor shortages in certain sectors — notably health care, education and skilled trades. And yes, a lot […]

Photo by James Lee
Feb 27, 2022

The bigger picture

Welcome to the 10th edition of The Big Book. Virginia Business Publisher Bernie Niemeier had the inspiration for this annual issue more than a decade ago when he was retrieving his mail and noted the heft of Vanity Fair’s jam-packed annual Hollywood issue. “Why can’t we have a big book like this?” he thought to […]

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