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Virginia's jobless rate remains the same in April
Richmond Times Dispatch
| Virginia's unemployment rate held steady at 5.6 percent in April as job growth slowed during the month, the Virginia Employment Commission reported Friday. | The jobless rate was unchanged from March, when it hit a three-year low. It was down from the year-ago April rate of 6.2 percent. | The stat...
Tax-Haven Tales: Kooks, Crooks and Con Men in the Offshore World by Charles Adam
The Examiner
| Tax-haven tales, the latest book by tax attorney, journalist, and financial historian Charles Adams is subtitled “tales of kooks, crooks, and con men in the offshore world”.  Adam’s book proves that while you can’t pick a book by its cover...
Becker's Hospital Review Names 100 Great Hospitals
Houston Chronicle
PRWeb Published 09:00 a.m., Sunday, May 20, 2012 Larger | Smaller | Georgia (default) | Verdana | Times New Roman | ArialFont Printable Version Email This | Becker's Hospital Review is pleased to recognize 100 great hospitals from across the...
Brooklyn HS band’s trial by fire
New York Post Online
| The show must go on. | A group of Brooklyn high-school students managed to compete in a Virginia music competition even after their bus burst into flames on I-95 and their instruments were destroyed, thanks to an amazing outpouring of generosity. |...
Buffett a believer in good old newspapers
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
| Who would have thought we'd see Warren Buffett buying newspapers? | Imagine, that old business. | Traditionalists will recall (perhaps fondly) a medium of information that got stuffed in a curbside box or landed with a clunk on a doorstep, where th...
Notable Gifts for May 20
Richmond Times Dispatch
| The Rotary Club of Richmond awarded the Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center a $5,000 signature grant to support diagnostic and therapeutic speech, language, and hearing services for children from families receiving financial assistance. The cen...
Consumer Reports: Cut your telecom bill
Richmond Times Dispatch
| Many of us love to hate our home telecom provider, according to Consumer Reports. | In CR's survey, its readers ranked telecom services as less satisfying than most other services it rates. | Yet there were a few companies that managed to please su...
Chris Speron shared a dignified memory: Artomatic 2012
The Examiner
| Chris Speron is Development Director at Human Rights Campaign and he is an artist. He calls it an “obsessive photographic installation,” though it just might be therapy. | How many people have gone back to the place where they were first raised...
Mortgage Fraud Ring Busted - Five Plead Guilty and One Man Indicted
The Examiner
| Clearly, the amount of money to be made in real estate – both residential and commercial – lends itself to abuse. | Five individuals have pled guilty to conspiring together to secure more than $1.5 million in a mortgage fraud scheme involving a...
Virginia business briefs for May 19
Richmond Times Dispatch
| HCA Virginia names CEO of two hospitals | Tim McManus has been named chief executive officer of CJW Medical Center's Chippenham and Johnston-Willis hospitals, HCA Virginia said. | McManus, currently the CEO and president of Reston Hospital Center a...
Virginia's jobless rate remains the same in April
Richmond Times Dispatch
| Virginia's unemployment rate held steady at 5.6 percent in April as job growth slowed during the month, the Virginia Employment Commission reported Friday. | The jobless rate was unchanged from March, when it hit a three-year low. It was down from ...



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