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Feb 24, 2022

Fed still likely to raise rates, despite Russia-Ukraine conflict

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President and CEO Thomas Barkin said Thursday that he hopes to bring interest rates up to pre-pandemic levels “relatively quickly,” while noting that it’s hard to predict the future effect of the geopolitical conflict between Russia and Ukraine on the nation’s economy. Spe[...]

COVID-19 vaccination shot Photo credit Art Writ, Capital News Service
Feb 17, 2022

GOP lawmakers push to protect workers who decline COVID vaccines

RICHMOND, Va. – Lawmakers narrowly passed a bill this month that would allow people fired for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine to receive unemployment benefits if no other misconduct took place. The measure advanced from the House of Delegates on a 51-48 party line vote and was assigned to a Senate committee on Feb. 10. The [&helli[...]

Feb 17, 2022

DHG to merge with BKD, forming top 10 accounting firm

The fifth-largest accounting firm operating in Virginia, Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP, is merging with Springfield, Missouri-based BKD CPAs & Advisors to form a combined top 10 accounting firm with $1.4 billion in revenue, the two firms announced Thursday. The “merger of equals” will be effective June 1, a company sp[...]

Feb 15, 2022

Dan Snyder owns Va.’s most expensive house

Virginia’s most expensive mansion now belongs to one of the most famous men in the commonwealth. River View, once part of George Washington’s Mount Vernon, in Alexandria, was sold on Oct. 29, 2021, for $48 million, according to TTR Sotheby’s International Realty. The agency brokered the sale of the 7-bedroom ho[...]

Workers broke ground in January 2022 on the planned $714 million Blue Star NBR medical glove manufacturing complex in Wythe County's Progress Park. Photo by Earl Neikirk.
Feb 10, 2022

$714M Wythe medical glove plant is solo venture now

Developers broke ground in January on the $714 million medical glove manufacturing complex planned for Wythe County’s Progress Park. Only now it may be a solo project, not a joint venture. In October 2021, then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced that Alexandria-based Blue Star NBR LLC was building manufacturing facilities t[...]

Christopher D. Kastner will become president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries on March 1. Photo courtesy HII.
Jan 28, 2022

HII names new president and CEO

Christopher D. Kastner will become president and CEO of Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries, the nation’s largest military shipbuilder, on March 1. Mike Petters, who has served as the Fortune 500 company’s president and CEO since Northrop Grumman Corp. spun off its shipbuilding division in 2011, will bec[...]

Republican Glenn Youngkin was sworn in as Virginia's 74th governor on Jan. 15, 2022. Photo by governor's office.
Jan 16, 2022

Youngkin sworn in as Virginia’s 74th governor

RICHMOND, Va. — Republican Glenn Youngkin was sworn in Saturday as Virginia’s 74th governor on the steps of the state Capitol. The political newcomer and former private equity executive is the commonwealth’s first Republican governor since Bob McDonnell, who took office in 2010. The commonwealth also made history in el[...]

Dec 29, 2021

Consumer Technology Association: “CES will and must go on”

The Arlington-based Consumer Technology Association (CTA) is moving forward with its CES consumer technology trade show in Las Vegas in January, despite cancelations from big exhibitors and the surge of COVID-19 cases fueled by the omicron variant. Formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, CES typically draws thousands of[...]

Bret S. Danilowicz
Dec 9, 2021

Radford University chooses new president

Radford University’s eighth president will be Bret S. Danilowicz, who’s currently serving as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Danilowicz, who starts his tenure at Radford on July 1, 2022, succeeds Brian O. Hemphill, who left in June to become p[...]

Nov 9, 2021

Brown Edwards acquires Mitchell Wiggins

Roanoke-based accounting firm Brown Edwards LLP acquired tax, audit and business consulting firm Mitchell Wiggins on Nov. 1. With offices in metro Richmond and the Petersburg/Tri-Cities areas, Mitchell Wiggins will bring six partners and 47 team members to Brown Edwards. Brown Edwards will have an office in the former Mitchell Wiggins space in Richmond, with […]

Oct 25, 2021

Siemens Gamesa to build first U.S. offshore wind blade factory in Portsmouth

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy S.A., a Spanish wind turbine company, will invest $200 million to build the first U.S. offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing facility in Portsmouth, creating 310 jobs, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday from the Port of Virginia’s Portsmouth Marine Terminal. Siemens Gamesa is a par[...]

Oct 25, 2021

Amentum to acquire PAE for $1.9B

Falls Church-based government contractor PAE Inc. (Pacific Architects and Engineers) has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Germantown, Maryland, aerospace defense contractor Amentum in a $1.9 billion all-cash deal. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2022, at which time PAE will become a wholly owned […]

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