[Virginia] Governor McDonnell Announces School Safety Task Force and Initiatives
Commonwealth of Virginia Office of Governor Bob McDonnell ~Will Establish a Task Force to Review School Safety Best Practices, Needs and Funding Challenges to Assist Localities, School Divisions,...
View ArticlePresident Obama Demands “Concrete Proposals” On Gun Violence By January
President Obama held a press conference today to announce that he has appointed Vice President Joe Biden to lead a task panel to develop comprehensive proposals to address gun violence by the end of...
View ArticleVirginia’s Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.6% in November
RICHMOND – Virginia’s unemployment rate fell to 5.6% in the month of November according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is tied with March, April and May of this...
View ArticleIs Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett’s Lawsuit Against NCAA Really The Right Thing...
I get it. I really do. I understand a state’s unwavering support of its flagship university, but is the lawsuit against the NCAA from the state on behalf of Penn State really the right thing to do?...
View ArticleVirginia Gun Sales Appear To Reach Record Number In 2012
In a report by the Associated press, Virginia gun sales leaped to apparent record high levels in 2012. State police statistics on gun buyers’ mandatory criminal background checks shows that there were...
View ArticleDaily Beast Ranks Norfolk As 2nd Drunkest City In America In 2012
The Daily Beast released it’s report of the “Top 25 Drunkest Cities In 2012” and Norfolk, VA ranked in at #2. They based their rankings on factors such as average number of alcoholic drinks per month...
View ArticleVirginia Beach Arena Deal With Sacramento Kings Is Dead – Time Ran Out...
Yesterday, Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms and Comcast Spectacor President Peter Lukko acknowledged that they are no longer hopeful that a deal can be made within the time frame necessary to go...
View ArticleDrive Thru Invisible Driver Prank Goes Viral
Rahat Hossain, or MagicofRahat as he is better known on his YouTube channel, is a Newport News native. He practices magic and has several videos of some pretty clever pranks. On Tuesday, January 8th he...
View ArticlePresident Obama Set To Present Gun Control Plan: Weighing 19 Executive...
Today President Obama will announce his gun control plan based on the results of the committee headed by Vice President Joe Biden. The package of gun control proposals, including a ban on assault...
View ArticleNaked X-Ray Scanners Removed From Airports
The TSA will remove aiport body scanners that produced naked x-ray images of passengers because the production company, OSI Systems, could not write software for the scanners to make the images less...
View ArticleNRA Supported By Majority Of Americans According To Recent Gallup Poll
A Gallup poll that was take during the week of Dec. 19-22, after the NRA’s press conference on the Sandy Hook tragedy, shows that 58% of Americans still support the NRA. Only 38% of those polled have...
View ArticleWhich States Have The Highest Tax Rates? Which States Have The Lowest Tax Rates?
According to The Tax Foundation, during the 2010 tax season, Americans paid 9.9% of their income on state and local taxes. That tax percentage is up from 9.3% in 2000 but is basically unchanged from...
View ArticleUS Marine Kills Two Marines And Then Himself At Quantico Marine Corp Base
A marine killed two of his fellow marines before turning the gun on himself Thursday night at the Marine Corp Base in Quantico, VA. A relationship dispute was believed to the reason behind the...
View ArticleBureau Of Labor Statistics Reports 500,000 Workers Left Job Force In March
The unemployment rate actually dipped to 7.6 from 7.7 in March, but that is little reason to celebrate. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics we added 88,000 jobs in March but we saw 500,000...
View ArticleWhen Not to be Social
I normally write about youth sports but today I want to share something that I hope will help to drive some change that could very well save lives, at the very least save needless expenses and...
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