Shentel to Acquire W. Va. Cable Company, Colane Cable TV, Inc.
Deal includes the purchase of all assets and transition of Colane customers, employees Edinburg, VA. – January 4, 2015 – Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) (NASDAQ: SHEN) today announced an agreement to purchase Colane Cable TV for $2.4 million. Colane Cable TV is a video, Internet and home phone provider located in southwestern West Virginia. Colane […]
Roanoke Times editorial: Why workforce training money is a “game-changer”
In his proposed budget that the legislature will vote on this session, Gov. Terry McAuliffe ramps up spending on workforce development programs from $5 million to $24.6 million — a figure state community college officials have called “a game-changer.” When political candidates talk about the need for more education funding, this isn’t what they usually […]
PBMARES NAMES THREE NEW PARTNERS
NEWPORT NEWS, VA (1/4/16) – PBMares, LLP – a leading accounting and business-consulting firm serving clients nationally and internationally – has named three new partners. Jennifer French, CPA, a Tax Manager in the Williamsburg, VA office; Todd Swisher, CPA, CGMA, a Senior Assurance Manager in the firm’s Richmond, VA office; and Dan Chenoweth, CPA, a Tax Manager in […]
Chamber Briefings Newsletter – December 18, 2015
On December 4th, we hosted over 700 business leaders in Williamsburg for the 6th Annual Virginia Economic Summit, where we released the inaugural State of the Commonwealth Report. Also that day, we were pleased to hear from a panel of Virginia executives on prospects and challenges to growing a business in Virginia; a policy briefing on […]
News & Advance: Lynchburg-area economy still shaking off recession
“[Virginia’s] lagging the U.S. overall,” partly a result of the decrease in federal funds to the state, Filer said. Lynchburg has been the worst of the metropolitan areas in the state. Its GDP has an average annual decrease of .5 percent between 2009 and 2014. But, “it isn’t necessarily the case that Lynchburg has been […]
Congress Needs to Hear from You Today
U.S. economic growth and job creation depend on our ability to sell American goods and services to the 95% of the world’s customers living outside our borders. Yet there are restrictions and tariffs, often in the double digits, that create an uneven playing field for U.S. companies and workers operating in a global marketplace. We […]
Culpeper Star-Exponent: Germanna pleased with governor’s proposed budget
Speaking at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond on Tuesday, McAuliffe said his planned budget will make “significant investments in Virginia’s higher education system and steer those institutions toward preparing students to lead in the 21st Century economy. “We will also continue to reinvent the workforce system to be more effective and more in […]
DuBois and DuVal: More credentials essential to individual and business prospects in Virginia
Over the next decade as many as two-thirds of the 1.5 million jobs that Virginia must fill will require more than a high school diploma but less than a bachelor’s degree, according to leading economic analysis. Those jobs will demand an associate’s degree and industry-recognized certifications that Virginia’s Community Colleges help people obtain. Virginia’s Community […]
Ryan Fierst Joins Virginia Chamber Staff as Public Policy Director
RICHMOND – The Virginia Chamber of Commerce announced today that Ryan Fierst has joined the Chamber staff as Public Policy Director. In this role, Ryan will develop the Chamber’s public policy agenda at both the federal and state levels. Her primary areas of focus will be education, workforce development, and the Virginia state budget. “Ryan […]
Sun Gazette: Report: Va.’s economy sluggish, but bright spots emerge
Despite the monster recession in the late 2000s and subsequent federal budget sequestration, Virginia’s economy is slowly but surely improving, economists told local business leaders Dec. 10. “The leading economic indices are turning up,” said James Koch, an economics professor and president emeritus of Old Dominion University’s Strome College of Business. Virginia Chamber Foundation officials […]
