Don’t hate the player, hate the game
Excitement surges through the auditorium as men and women clad in red hats and supportive t-shirts chant wildly at the announcement of their idol’s entrance onstage. The crowd claps and hollers as the man saunters to the podium, signs thrashing in the air in overwhelming support. Despite resembling a rowdy herd awaiting a famous musician, […]
CoStar picks Richmond for new research center
A powerhouse in the commercial real estate industry tapped Richmond for its new operations and global research center last week. It is slated to bring 732 jobs to the region along with it. Andrew C. Florance, founder and CEO of CoStar Group, a Washington, D.C.-based research and analytics firm and owner of Apartments.com, joined Gov. […]
Unemployment rates on the rise in Richmond
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the unemployment rate has risen slightly since August from 3.9 percent to four percent in Richmond as of September. Unemployment rates have slowly increased since April, which had a rate of 3.5 percent, and May at 3.7 percent. In comparison to last year, the number of people […]
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Know what you’re checking off: Virginia amendment up for vote
Virginia residents will vote on a proposed amendment that would put the provisions of Virginia’s right-to-work law into the state constitution on Nov. 8. The right-to-work law gives employees the right to work without being required or compelled to join a union. Virginia has had a right-to-work law since 1947; however it is not listed […]