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Youngkin Announces Record-Setting Tourism Spending, $35.1B in Virginia in 2024

Governor Glenn Youngkin and Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) announced that Virginia’s tourism industry generated a record high $35.1 billion in visitor spending in 2024, marking a 5.4% increase from...

Youngkin Highlights Strong Growth in Virginia Job Openings and Hiring

Yesterday, Governor Youngkin announced that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) May 2025 Job...

Youngkin Announces AstraZeneca Selects Virginia for Multi-Billion Dollar Manufacturing Center

Governor Glenn Youngkin announced AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development, and...

Youngkin Announces June Jobs Surveys

Governor Glenn Youngkin announced last Friday that according to BLS CES data, nonfarm employment decreased...

Virginia Tourism Corporation Announces Catherine Marshburn as Vice President of Marketing

Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) yesterday announced that Catherine “Cat” Marshburn has been named Vice President...

VA Tech Approves Real Estate Degree / Extended Campus in Roanoke

Beginning in the fall of 2013 Virginia Tech will offer a Bachelor of Science Degree program in real estate, becoming the nation’s first...

Bingham to Present Webinar Ahead of Book Release

Former Roanoke School Board member and Trane North America Vice President Jason Bingham will present a Webinar at Virginia Western Community College's Whitman Theater...

R. T. Smith’s Deli – Bringing A Little New York to Downtown

Tracey Horacek, a Long Island, New York native, and her husband Robert initially came to the Roanoke area seven years ago to work...

Duct Tape My Software And Hope For The Best?

The clients are different, but the question is always basically the same. Can you redesign my website?  It doesn't matter how the question...

Gifts and Their Tax Consequences

Nontax motivations are, or should be, the main impetus to make gifts.  These can include: Providing donees with the resources to use, to learn from,...

Virginia Reports Workplace Fatality Figures for 2011

The Virginia Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) reported a preliminary total of 127 occupational fatalities in the Commonwealth in 2011, an increase...
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