Business Briefs – Week of March 27-31
Chamber Virginia Chamber gets local input for its blueprint for state’s future Free Lance-Star Mecklenburg County included on Blueprint Virginia 2025 tour News Progress Barry DuVal, Correspondent of the Day: Virginia’s electricity rates are low RTD What’s on Our Minds? Shaping Virginia’s Economic Policy VA CEOs Old Dominion disruption VA Business Virginia Policy McAuliffe’s […]
Business Briefs – Week of March 20-24
Virginia Chamber Cable Reports: Interview with Virginia Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Barry DuVal VCTA (video) Interview with Tim Hulbert and Barry DuVal at Charlottesville Blueprint event WCHV (audio) Economic development leader tours major employers in area Winchester Star Economic growth opportunities touted on Va. Shore Delmarva Now Richmond arts community fears Trump’s budget […]
Business Briefs – Week of March 13-17
Chamber Virginia Slips In National Business Rankings Daily News Record Blueprint Virginia regional rollout in Harrisonburg (video) WHSV Group of 25 who will vet requests for GO Virginia money includes Richmond region’s most influential RTD GO Virginia’s regional councils named Daily Press Bills we’re watching Mark Webb column: Dominion still offers the best deal […]
Business Briefs – Week of March 6-10
Chamber State Chamber seeks input Bedford Bulletin GO Virginia to create Roanoke-Blacksburg-Lynchburg economic council Roanoke Times Martin-Lawson named chamber volunteer of the year Daily Progress Twelve of 20 local legislators reported gifts in the period RTD Long-serving leader of Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce to retire Virginia Business Bills we’re watching Virginia’s Rainy Day […]
Business Briefs – Week of February 27-March 3
Chamber FERC gets pipeline comments The Inter-Mountain Virginia Becomes Latest State to Pass Rare Coin Sales Tax Exemption Coin Week Mike Petters speaks at NGA Winter meeting (video) Most Influential Virginians 2017 Virginia Business Magazine Bills we’re watching Deal reached on state economic development reform RTD Va. legislators send governor bill to encourage charters […]
Sama Bilbao y León column: Little nuclear reactors could be a big boon for Virginia
The following op-ed appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch. Click here to view the full article on their website. by Sama Bilbao y León Virginia would be the perfect place to develop pint-size nuclear reactors for use around the world. These very small modular reactors — known as vSMRs — would avoid the kinds of problems […]
Sama Bilbao y León column: Little nuclear reactors could be a big boon for Virginia
Read the full column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch at http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/sama-bilbao-y-le-n-column-little-nuclear-reactors-could/article_463df37d-1970-533e-b6e7-0d6ed93d7fac.html …With our large nuclear infrastructure and know-how, Virginia would be ideal for the development of very small nuclear reactors, for both military and commercial use. AREVA and BWX Technologies, both among the world’s leading nuclear suppliers, have key facilities in Virginia. Newport News Shipbuilding, the builder […]
Chamber Briefings Newsletter – February 24, 2017
The 2017 General Assembly session is scheduled to adjourn sine die tomorrow, Saturday, February 25th. Both chambers are scheduled to vote on the $107 billion budget bill, HB 1500, today. Below, you’ll find a recap of some of the items that were included in the final budget conference report that may impact your business. We were […]
Business Briefs – Week of February 20-24, 2017
Chamber News Video: Chairman Dennis Treacy encourages businesses to get involved in Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week VA Chamber blog Peninsula residents honored for humanitarian work Daily Press Barry DuVal interview on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (audio) WSVA GOP Hopeful For Lt. Governor Stumps In County Daily News Record Bills we’re watching Virginia Becomes Latest […]
Vandeventer Black Attorneys Named Virginia Super Lawyers “Rising Stars”
Norfolk, VA (February 23, 2017) – Six Vandeventer Black attorneys have been named Virginia Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” for 2017. “Rising Stars” recognizes top up-and-coming lawyers who are 40-years-old or younger, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. The six attorneys selected are: Megan B. Caramore Jennifer L. Eaton Sean Golden Jeremy […]
