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Virginia Transportation Conference in Norfolk
From December 7 to 9, 2011, the Norfolk Waterside Marriott will host the annual Governor’s Transportation Conference. This event will truly be a “who’s who” of the Virginia transportation industry...
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Retired admiral: Defense cuts will affect region
Retired Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, director of the Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance, outlined specific military operations that might be in jeopardy. By Bill Bartel for The...
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U.S. Transportation Secretary to Keynote Virginia Economic Summit
“The Federal Government’s Role in Virginia’s Economic Prosperity” is the theme of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce‘s 2nd Annual Economic Summit slated for Thursday, December 1, 2011, at the...
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Darden Award for Regional Leadership 2011
Joshua P. Darden, Jr., is the Founder Emeritus of the CIVIC Leadership Institute. It would be hard to find someone who has done more to change the face of Hampton Roads in the last 50 years than Josh...
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Hampton Roads Nonprofit Excellence
Now is a great time to get a head start on a New Year’s resolution to do something good for you and your nonprofit organization. One suggestion? Sign up for an Academy for Nonprofit Excellence class....
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Virginia leaders learn about Hampton Roads
By Matt Isner, LEAD VIRGINIA Class of 2011. Matt is a vice president at Charles Ryan Associates, an integrated marketing communications firm located in Shockoe Bottom in Richmond. The 2011 class of...
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Inc. 500 in Hampton Roads
Inc. Magazine, written for those who start and grow private companies, named two Hampton Roads businesses in their list of 500 fasting growing companies in the country. (The other was Cetan Corp.)...
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ODU Means Business for Hampton Roads
From the ODU Business Gateway Professional Development Center’s October 2011 newsletter: ODU Means Business for Hampton Roads – Hampton Roads Partnership’s Dana Dickens Explains… Dana is helping to...
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Glass Studio brings Art Museum’s collection to life
The Chrysler Museum of Art opened the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio on November 2nd to complement the world-class glass collection in the Museum. The addition of the Glass Studio enhances the Museum’s...
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Williamsburg Launches Smartphone App for Citizens
Want to report a missed trash pickup? Need a recycling bin? The City of Williamsburg now has an app for that. As part of its ongoing effort to improve performance and accessibility, the City of...
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Daily Press Editorial: Economic diversity needed
NORFOLK (July 7, 2011) The guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) pulls into Naval Station Norfolk, the largest navy base in the world. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class...
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Sen. Mark Warner, Technology Hampton Roads and Hampton University: Show Me...
On Monday, December 12, Technology Hampton Roads, alongside the National Institute of Aerospace and Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, will host a luncheon with the Honorable Senator Mark R. Warner....
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Confessions of a Messy Regionalist: Addressing regional challenges is urgent
By Bill Barnes Posted Friday, November 25, 2011, on Citiwire.net Among the congenial regional sages at the October Citistates convening at Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Pocantico Conference Center, I...
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VDOT signs contract for Second Midtown Tunnel in Hampton Roads
Governor Bob McDonnell today announced that the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has entered into a comprehensive agreement with Elizabeth River Crossings (ERC) to build a new Midtown...
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Hampton Roads CEOs team up with three cities to explore pilot shared services...
The chief executive officers of the region’s Fortune 500 companies and the mayors of the three largest South Hampton Roads cities are teaming up to explore how the region could benefit from potentially...
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NASA’s Women in Science aspire2inspire
Young girls should be empowered, because they are valuable and and make significant contributions to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The fact is, women are already making incredible impacts...
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HRPDC Special Report on military spending decline
The failure of the Congressional “super committee” to come up with a plan to reduce the U.S. deficit has triggered $1.2 trillion in across-the-board spending cuts beginning in January of 2013, and...
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Hampton Roads cities teaming up with industry leaders
THE PLAN: Officials from Chesapeake, Norfolk and Virginia Beach and executives from Amerigroup, Dollar Tree, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Norfolk Southern and Smithfield Foods have begun discussing...
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Governor McDonnell Outlines 2012 Transportation Plan in Norfolk
Speaking to more than 700 hundred industry and transportation agency professionals during the 2011 Governor’s Transportation Conference in Norfolk, Governor Bob McDonnell outlined his transportation...
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Full steam ahead on school plans
By Danielle Walker for Inside Business, originally posted on November 4, 2011 Leaders in the region are shifting into go-mode to create science, technology, engineering and math-related educational...
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