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Apr 30, 2020

Leveraging the past

Vernon Green served 20 years, five months and 18 days in the Army, retiring in 2014 as a chief warrant officer after three deployments to Iraq and one to Kuwait. Today he heads his own information technology and cybersecurity business responsible for 10 major government projects. And he hires veterans like himself. During his ti[...]

Apr 30, 2020

On deck

There’s massive work underway in the Hampton Roads maritime industry, with much more on the horizon. The region is hiring, big-time. But are there enough qualified candidates to fill the jobs? Regional leaders want to get ahead of the question, they say, considering the window of opportunity and what’s at stake for the area�[...]

Apr 30, 2020

Highway projects around Virginia

HAMPTON ROADS Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion The $3.3 billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion is the largest construction project in the history of the Virginia Department of Transportation. In February 2019, Hampton Roads Connector Partners, a joint venture led by New York-based Dragados USA, won the design-build c[...]

Virginia’s diverse terrain is well-suited for golf courses, says Jonathan Ireland, general manager of Kinloch Golf Club in Goochland County. Photo by Caroline Martin
Mar 29, 2020

A good walk improved

The course at Kinloch Golf Club unfolds and reveals itself like an epic novel. Over the course of 19 holes — yes, 19 — its spectacular, elevated terrain clashes dramatically with its diabolical sporting challenges. “Kinloch is wonderful,” says noted course designer Rees Jones, who has designed or restored more than 260 c[...]

Contrasting its bucolic setting amid the Appalachian Mountains, the U.Va. Wise campus features contemporary, streamlined architecture.
Mar 29, 2020

Hometown college

On the town of Wise’s website, information about the University of Virginia’s College at Wise sits behind an appropriately labeled tab: “Our College.” When U.Va. Wise was founded in 1954, it was called Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, and it was the commonwealth’s first public college west of Radfor[...]

“Over the last 10 to 15 years, you’ve seen a great transformation in Bristol,” says Beth Rhinehart, president and CEO of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Earl Niekirk
Mar 29, 2020

Crossing the line

A city famous for birthing country music and straddling the Virginia-Tennessee state line, Bristol, Virginia, has spent the last decade struggling to recover from the Great Recession and the coal industry’s steep decline. However, a new surge of economic life is reenergizing Bristol as it enters the 2020s. More visitors are fl[...]

This 20-megawatt Dominion-owned solar farm in Sussex County’s Stony Creek area is one of six Virginia solar farms producing renewable energy purchased by Amazon Web Services to offset its environmental impact. Drone photography by Rick DeBerry
Mar 29, 2020

Positive energy

By 2026, as many as 220 massive wind turbines — each taller than the Washington Monument — may be churning away less than 30 miles off the Virginia Beach coast, powering up to 650,000 homes with renewable energy. The $7.8 billion proposed offshore wind farm would be the nation’s largest such project, but it’s just [&hell[...]

Smithfield Foods Inc. has announced $300,000 in new STEM committments.
Mar 29, 2020

Pig-powered

Along with emitting a potent odor, manure produced by the nearly  75 million hogs in the U.S. generates methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more harmful to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. However, Virginia’s largest electric utility and the world’s largest pork producer have teamed up to combat the latter problem by tran[...]

Mar 29, 2020

Top 50 golf courses in Virginia for 2020

Read more from the golf package: Cascades isn’t par for the course A good walk improved  

Photo courtesy Omni Hotels & Resorts
Mar 29, 2020

Cascades isn’t par for the course

For the fourth consecutive year, the Virginia Golf Ratings Panel’s rankings of the commonwealth’s top 50 golf courses is led by the Omni Homestead Resort’s timeless Cascades course. William Flynn’s classic 1923 design in Hot Springs — nestled in the Allegheny Mountains — has both mesmerized and bedeviled golfers from[...]

The next generation of CPAs will need to be able to use information, not just memorize the tax code, says Richard Groover, former chairman of the Virginia Society of CPAs. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Mar 29, 2020

They say they want an evolution

Forget the CPA number nerds of the past with pencil marks on their starched white shirts. Tomorrow’s CPAs will be better versed in information technology, analysis and problem-solving techniques. An evolution is taking place in the accounting industry to enhance analytical and critical thinking skills among future certified pu[...]

Dec 30, 2019

Approaching equality

Women may make up more than half of Virginia’s population, but their presence in the statehouse has always fallen far short of parity. This year’s election brought a seismic change, however. Rachel Bitecofer, assistant director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, says that women now hold [...]

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