For the Record – Eastern Virginia, June 2013
For the Record - Eastern Virginia, June 2013
Launch is a milestone for Wallops, Orbital
Dulles-based Orbital Sciences successfully launched its 133-foot Antares rocket into orbit in mid-April from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Gaming for business
ThinkFun in Alexandria designs and manufactures games for children and adults that “inspire learning, spark creativity and build problem solving through play."
Remember the ‘Crying Indian’?
As part of its relaunch, Keep Virginia Beautiful adopted a new strategic plan and hired Mike Baum to guide its efforts.
Charity begins at home
Recent major gifts show that, although prominent Virginia philanthropists donate to a variety of causes, they make common cause with a desire to have their donations benefit individual communities, often the ones in which they have built businesses and prospered.
‘Doing well by doing good’
Reston-based BetterWorld Telecom LLC was born in 2002 when Matt Bauer’s telecommunications career was at a crossroads.
A taxing question
The tax treatment of donations involving naming rights is a bit complicated.
Riverside Health System and Aetna form accountable care organization alliance
Deal is Aetna’s third ACO in Virginia.
CSC to sell business unit to Arlington-based PAE for $175 million
Applied Technology Division had been acquired in the 2003 purchase of DynCorp.
Jobless rates fall in nine of 11 Virginia metro areas
Northern Virginia unemployment dips below 4 percent in April.
Chick-fil-A opens its newest restaurant in Ashland on Thursday
About 180 people line up for a chance to win a year’s worth of free meals.