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It’s time to thrive
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Here we are in December, approaching the end of 2021. Most business leaders would say with some certainty that this year was better than 2020 — and thankfully so. Yet,
Higher values
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About 30 years ago, I was a volunteer for a local group of marketing professionals that was launching its Marketer of the Year awards. Publicity was needed. Working in marketing
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Magical thinking
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Listening can be difficult; that’s often an early lesson learned and hopefully one paid better attention to as life goes on. I’ll admit that’s been the case for me. Listening
Political Kool-Aid
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Depending on who’s in charge in Dee Cee, plans alternate on what is best for the U.S. economy. The choices are seemingly reduced to tax cuts versus government spending, but
Virginia Business 3.0
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Welcome to the second annual edition of the Virginia 500. Last year’s inaugural publication, published in the depths of a pandemic-constrained economy, was quite a surprise — in fact, it
Aiming for the max score
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As we assembled this second annual edition of the Virginia 500, I found myself visualizing a dartboard — with 500 darts. In choosing the top 500 Virginia executives and power
Closing the digital divide: It’s not optional
America is at a critical, high-stakes inflection point
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With the Senate’s passage of a massive infrastructure bill, there is rare and refreshing bipartisan consensus on the need to close the digital divide, which came into sharp focus during
The Mailroom August 2021
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More energy alternatives The “Rolling out the red carpet” article in your June issue outlined how economic development officials foresee the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project “becoming an East Coast
Hot time, summer in Virginia
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Thus far, we’ve been spared from the heat wave that gripped Oregon, as well as the drought hitting California, not to mention western wildfires. But summer is still always a
What’s good for HBCUs is good for Virginia business
It's time to increase state support for historically Black colleges and universities, former Gov. Wilder writes
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Earlier this year, I issued a call for the commonwealth to confront and reassess its disproportionate support of its historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). I wrote a letter to