DHG Financial Services Welcomes Regulatory Compliance Leaders Michelle Nuckols and Ann Barrar
DHG Financial Services Welcomes Regulatory Compliance Leaders Michelle Nuckols and Ann Barrar Richmond, Va. – DHG is pleased to announce Michelle Nuckols, Senior Manager, and Ann Barrar, Senior Consultant, joined the DHG Financial Services practice. Based in Richmond, Va., Nuckols and Barrar bring significant credentials in regulatory compliance to assist financial services companies with evolving […]
2015 State of the Commonwealth Report
This is the 1st State of the Commonwealth Report. It is jointly sponsored by the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University and the Virginia Chamber Foundation. While the report represents the work of many people connected in various ways to the university, it does not constitute an of cial viewpoint of Old Dominion or its […]
Vandeventer Black LLP names new Partners
Vandeventer Black LLP is pleased to announce that Norfolk-based attorneys Anthony J. Mazzeo, and Dustin M. Paul have been made Partner. Mazzeo predominantly concentrates in government contracts, ship repair, international business, and maritime law. He is a former Navy Judge Advocate attorney and is licensed in Virginia, Washington D.C. and Florida. Paul focuses his practice […]
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 […]
