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Nov 14, 2024

Youngkin announces plan to grow workforce housing

At the Governor’s Housing Conference in Virginia Beach Thursday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin unveiled the Workforce Housing Investment Program, an initiative at Virginia Housing that will invest $75 million over five years to spur the creation of workforce-priced housing. The funding holds the potential, according to a news release fr[...]

Hard Rock executives and partners participate in the company's "guitar smash" during the grand opening of the permanent Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol on Nov. 14. Photo courtesy Hard Rock
Nov 14, 2024

Permanent Hard Rock Bristol casino opens

The bright lights of Bristol shine considerably brighter now following the opening of Virginia’s second full-fledged casino. Thursday heralded the grand opening of the $515 million-plus Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol, Virginia’s first hotel/casino combo. Symphonies of sounds, from music to slot machines, indicated the [...]

Nov 12, 2024

American Diabetes Assoc. chair tackles disease’s workforce impact

More than 780,000 adults in Virginia have diabetes. The indirect cost from lost productivity due to the disease in 2017 in this state alone was a whopping $2.3 billion, according to the American Diabetes Association. That’s why Rhodes Ritenour, national chairman of the ADA’s board and vice president for external and [...]

Dr. Marlon Levy
Nov 11, 2024

After two years, VCU Health makes Levy permanent CEO

Two years after he first became interim CEO, Dr. Marlon F. Levy has been named VCU Health System’s permanent head. Virginia Commonwealth University announced Monday that Levy’s interim roles as the Richmond-based health system’s CEO and senior vice president for VCU Health Sciences were made permanent in appoin[...]

Nov 11, 2024

MicroStrategy holdings surge in value as bitcoin breaches $87,000

Bitcoin whale Michael Saylor, the executive chairman of Tysons-based tech company MicroStrategy, has reason to gloat today.  Under Saylor’s laser-eyed guidance, MicroStrategy has pursued bitcoin as an investment strategy since 2020. The company announced its first bitcoin purchase in August 2020, making it one of the first pu[...]

The Senate chamber in the Thomas Jefferson-designed Virginia State Capitol will remain empty during the 2021 regular session. Senators will meet at the Science of Museum of Virginia, which provides greater social distancing.
Nov 8, 2024

Va. will hold 2 special elections to fill empty state Senate seats

Updated Nov. 10 Two Virginia State Senate seats are now open, with the election of state Sens. John McGuire, R-Goochland, and Suhas Subramanyam, D-Loudoun, to the U.S. House of Representatives this week, so the state will hold special elections to fill those seats in districts 10 and 32 ahead of the Virginia General AssemblyR[...]

Nov 7, 2024

If Trump cuts federal workforce, Warner predicts ‘disaster’ for Va.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said Thursday he hopes President-elect Donald Trump won’t pursue massive cuts and relocations in the federal workforce — because if he does, it would be a “disaster for Virginia’s economy,” particularly in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. “We would get hit worse than any [...]

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Nov 7, 2024

Navy Federal ordered to refund customers $80M, pay $15M civil penalty

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordering Navy Federal Credit Union to refund more than $80 million to customers and pay a $15 million civil penalty for allegedly charging illegal overdraft fees. CFPB announced the actions against the nation’s largest credit union on Thursday. CFPB alleges that from 2017 to 2022, Vi[...]

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Nov 7, 2024

Developer downscales plans for Pittsylvania power plant/data center campus

The developer planning a natural gas power plant and data center campus on 2,233 acres in the Banister and Callands-Gretna districts of Pittsylvania County withdrew its rezoning application Monday, after facing vocal opposition from residents at public meetings held last week.  Instead, Herndon-based Balico, the development com[...]

Nov 7, 2024

Caesars Virginia casino sets opening date

The Caesars Virginia resort casino in Danville will open Dec. 12, Nevada’s Caesars Entertainment announced Thursday. A $750 million, 587,000-square-foot casino and resort hotel in Danville’s Schoolfield neighborhood, the permanent casino will replace the temporary Caesars casino that opened nearby in May 2023. Accord[...]

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Nov 6, 2024

Accenture Federal Services wins $1.6B task order

Accenture Federal Services has been awarded a task order of up to $1.6 billion to scale and enhance Cloud One, the cloud computing platforms available to the U.S. Department of Defense that are managed by the Air Force, the Arlington County federal contractor announced last week.  “Accenture Federal Services will help the U.S[...]

Nov 6, 2024

Virginians wager $622M on sports in September

Virginians bet $622 million on sports in September, up 19.6% from September 2023, according to Virginia Lottery data released Friday. Virginia bettors won $550.5 million in September. About $618.3 million of September’s gross sports gaming revenues came from mobile operators, and the remaining $3.7 million came from casino ret[...]

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