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Nov 20, 2024

UPDATE: Botanical garden workers vote to unionize

Updated Nov. 22 RICHMOND, Va. – Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden workers voted 37-13 in favor of unionization on Nov. 21. The workers filed for union representation last month amid employee-voiced workplace concerns, which ranged from lack of equipment to safety policies. This is the first group of botanical garden workers to be [...]

A bronze statute of Lady Justice holding scales
Nov 20, 2024

Ex-Richmond Fed examiner pleads guilty to insider trading

A former Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond examiner on Tuesday pleaded guilty to committing insider trading and making false statements about his trading to the Richmond Fed. Robert Brian Thompson, 43, of Chesterfield County’s Moseley area, was an examiner and senior manager with supervisory duties for the Richmond Fed, wh[...]

Richard Luck. Photo courtesy Luck Cos.
Nov 20, 2024

Luck Cos. names president

Richard Luck is now president of Luck Cos., the Goochland-based construction aggregates and decorative stone producer announced Nov. 12 along with several other leadership changes. Richard Luck is the fourth generation of the Luck family to take a leadership role at the company, which has three business units: Luck Stone, Luck E[...]

Chris Cosby. Photo courtesy Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
Nov 18, 2024

ODEC announces next president and CEO

Chris Cosby will become president and CEO of Glen Allen’s Old Dominion Electric Cooperative on Feb. 1, 2025. Cosby succeeds John C. Lee, who has been ODEC’s president and CEO since Sept. 8, 2023, initially serving in an interim capacity. ODEC announced Lee’s retirement, effective Feb. 1, on Monday. He will serve as a senio[...]

Nov 15, 2024

Va. casinos report $57M in October revenue

Gaming revenues for Virginia’s three casinos totaled $57.04 million in October, according to data the Virginia Lottery released Friday. Last month, the temporary Bristol Casino: Future Home of Hard Rock reported about $13.41 million in adjusted gaming revenues (wagers minus winnings), of which about $11.16 million came from it[...]

An aerial view of Super Radiator Coils' Chesterfield County facility. Photo courtesy Super Radiator Coils
Nov 15, 2024

Specialty coils manufacturer to expand in Chesterfield

Super Radiator Coils, an engineering and manufacturing company based in Minnesota, will invest $22 million to expand in Chesterfield County, creating an estimated 160 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s office announced Friday. The company will upgrade machinery and add about 80,000 square feet to its existing approximately 160,000-sq[...]

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[...]

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 5, 2024

Petersburg casino passes with 81% of unofficial vote

Updated Nov. 6 More than 80% of Petersburg voters said yes to the city’s casino referendum, according to unofficial Election Day results from the Virginia Department of Elections, as of 9:45 p.m. Tuesday. The vote gives a green light to Cordish Cos.’ $1.4 billion Live! Casino & Hotel, set to be built on an undeve[...]

A photo of a bed centered in a room. The bedding is pulled back from the bottom right corner to show the Casper logo
Nov 1, 2024

Carpenter notches acquisition No. 3 with Casper buy

Richmond-based international foam producer Carpenter has acquired omnichannel bedding brand Casper Sleep. Under the agreement, Casper will operate as a subsidiary of Carpenter. This marks the third acquisition Carpenter has made in the past 16 months. In November 2023, Carpenter acquired North Carolina-based NCFI Polyurethanes.[...]

Nov 1, 2024

LL Flooring CEO resigns, effective immediately

LL Flooring President and CEO Charles E. Tyson has resigned effective immediately, the Henrico County flooring company formerly known as Lumber Liquidators announced in a Securities and Exchange Commission document released Friday. The move is not exactly a surprise, coming several weeks after Thomas Sullivan, Lumber Liquidators[...]

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