| Followups
An update on companies and trends
featured in recent issues
Virginia Business
February 2006
Zapata
Corp. of Rochester, N.Y., wants
to sell its 58 percent interest in Omega
Protein Corp.,
a Houston-based company that owns a menhaden processing
plant in Reedsville. The plant has become a major Northern
Neck employer. The revitalized menhaden processing industry
was profiled in the magazine’s November
2004 issue.
New York-based Verizon
Communications has completed its acquisition of Asburn-based MCI
Inc. MCI once was part of Mississippi-based
WorldCom, whose former CEO Bernard Ebbers, has been
sentenced to 25
years in prison for his part in a massive accounting
scandal. The Verizon-MCI merger was reported in the
magazine’s March
2005 issue.
Richmond Mayor L.
Douglas Wilder has proposed a five-year plan that he expects to finance
with a $250 million
line of credit. The plan calls for creating citywide
math and arts high schools, expanding the Carpenter
Center for the Performing Arts and creating a downtown
law school. The magazine previewed Wilder’s plans
for the city in its April
2005 issue.
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