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2015 Virginia Health Care Conference – Presentations and Panels and Videos

June 10th, 2015

Please click on the name of the speaker to download his or her presentation! Click on the title of the presentation to watch the video! Thank you.  EXPLORING A NEW REALM OF POSSIBILITIES FOR THE FUTURES OF HEALTH CARE Jeff Bauer, PhD, Health Futurist & Medical Economist HEALTHCARE IN HIGH GEAR (PANEL #1) INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS […]

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PBMARES' STEELE-WARD JOINS INTACCT ACCOUNTANTS PROGRAM ADVISORY COUNCIL

June 9th, 2015

NEWPORT NEWS, VA (6/9/15) – PBMares, a leading accounting and business consulting firm focused on broad range of accounting business services, announced today that Susan Steele-Ward, CPA, a Manager at the firm, has joined the Intacct Accountants Program Advisory Council (IAPAC).  The council is comprised of executives from Intacct, CPA.com, and Intacct partner firms.  The […]

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Quality Early Education Key To Building Strong Future Workforce (The Free Lance-Star) By Cathy Jett

May 21st, 2015

The workforce pipeline begins as early as kindergarten. Yet one in seven children in the Fredericksburg area arrives there without the basic skills to succeed in school. Those who can’t read well by the third grade are four times more likely to drop out before graduating from high school. And high school dropouts are eight […]

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Chamber Briefings Newsletter – 5.20.15

May 20th, 2015

On May 7th, we hosted our 2015 Legislative Awards Recognition and 91st Anniversary Celebration Dinner in conjunction with our spring Board of Directors meeting in Arlington, where we released our 2015 Legislative Report Card. We were pleased to host over 250 guests as we saluted Virginia’s pro-business legislators for their work during the 2015 General […]

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VA Chamber urges Virginia’s Congressional delegation to support Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)

May 20th, 2015

TPA is vital because economic growth and job creation at home depend on our ability to sell American goods and services to the 95% of the world’s customers living outside the U.S. Congress must approve TPA in order to make growth-driving trade agreements a reality. TPA letter to Congress -May 2015 -VA

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May 2015 Public Policy Briefing

May 20th, 2015

At the Virginia Chamber, we are constantly working on your behalf on both the state and federal levels to ensure that Virginia is the best state in which to do business. This document provides you with a comprehensive update on all of those efforts and is divided into two main sections. The first is an […]

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2015 Bills We Watched

May 19th, 2015

This document provides a comprehensive list of all of the bills we tracked during the 2015 General Assembly session, outlined by topic area, and also reports whether the bill passed or failed. 2015 Bills We Watched

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Mortensen and Jones: Building real-world skills

May 19th, 2015

Education in economics and personal finance provides a strong workforce giving Virginia a competitive advantage. Virginia’s Standards of Learning contain elements of economics and personal finance in public elementary, middle, and high school, including a requirement that in order to graduate, students must complete a full credit (full-year) course in economics and personal finance.  The […]

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KEVIN REILLY OF PBMARES BECOMES TREASURER OF NATIONAL CLUB ASSOCIATION

May 18th, 2015

BALTIMORE, MD (5/18/15) – Kevin Reilly, J.D., CPA, CGMA, Partner at PBMares, LLP, has been elected as the Treasurer of the National Club Association (NCA). He will serve as Treasurer for a three-year term.  The NCA recently held its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., where it elected new board members and officers. For many years the NCA has served as […]

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Vandeventer Black LLP Attorneys Selected as 2015 Super Lawyers Rising Stars

May 13th, 2015

Norfolk, VA. (May 13, 2015) – Seven attorneys from the law offices of Vandeventer Black LLP were selected as 2015 Super Lawyers Rising Stars. Eligibility for inclusion requires candidates either be 40 years old or younger or in practice for 10 years or less. Annually, less than five percent of lawyers in each state are […]

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