Cover Story
Single-minded
Hampden-Sydney, Hollins, Mary Baldwin and Sweet Briar bypass the coed trend
Hampden-Sydney, Hollins, Mary Baldwin and Sweet Briar bypass the coed trend.
Opinion
From This Issue
Mosaics make the old new
Ravenna-inspired company now exports to Italy
Published
New Ravenna Mosaics imports most of its rough-cut marble from Italy.
Top CPAs offer insights on their accounting fields
Published
Introduction to a special report of
the 2013 Super CPAs as well as
twelve Super CPAs profiles and lists by category
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Helping young men become heroes
Published
Hampden-Sydney president defines the mission of a men’s college
Keeping the game going
Will use of gas pumps, smartphones and ATMs generate higher sales for the 25-year-old Virginia Lottery?
Published
Paula Otto and her team at the 25-year-old Virginia Lottery are waging a new, multimillion-dollar annual marketing campaign and eyeing a host of high-tech tools to attract 200,000 new monthly players by December 2015.
Firing Fannie and Freddie
Is the Warner-Corker bill the right path for the mortgage industry?
Published
Five years ago, the U.S. government took over the Federal National Mortgage Association and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. in a $175 billion bailout during the height of the financial crisis. Now, “Fannie Mae” and “Freddie Mac,” as they’re known, respectively, are back in the black.
Vying for dollars
Virginia health systems compete for federal grants aimed at improving care
Published
Some of Virginia’s biggest health systems are competing for a share of a big pot of money designed to improve health care and cut costs.
Glitchy start on the exchange
Dec. 15 is the deadline for signing up on for insurance coverage starting Jan. 1
Published
For people signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act in early October, it wasn’t a smooth launch.
Copper-line networks disappear as customers rely on wireless phones
Published
Like the telegram, movie rental stores and phone books, the landline phone is fast heading for technological extinction.
Cybersecurity is the most in-demand IT skill set
Published
The state’s servers contain a lot of confidential information about Virginia residents and taxpayers, and they’re hit by cyber attacks of one form or another about 120 million times each year.
Sequestration and government slow NoVa’s market
Published
Northern Virginia is experiencing the highest total vacancy rates — 18.7 percent for the third quarter — that the region has seen in years.
