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In Brief
Levitating
in Norfolk
Old Dominion University’s Maglev train is waiting
on a $2 million federal check. The train’s scheduled
November launch was stalled by glitches and ODU needs
the money — part of the pending federal transportation-funding
bill — to fix the problems. “It levitates,
it runs, it’s just noisy as all get out,”
says ODU spokeswoman Jennifer Mullen. The $14 million
project is part of ODU’s plan to be a transit research
center.
Slave
museum in 2007
The planned opening of former governor L. Douglas Wilder’s
national slavery museum in Fredericksburg is now set
for 2007 — in time for Jamestown’s 400th anniversary
but three years later than Wilder announced a year ago.
Since then he’s hired a director and organized
a museum board. There’s also a new Web site —
www.usnationalslaverymuseum.org.
Virginia
Business - January 2003
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