After CoStar Group, a provider of real estate market intelligence, announced last fall its intention to move its research division headquarters to downtown Richmond, the company offered employees from Washington, D.C., Atlanta, San Diego, and Columbia, Md., an opportunity to move to Virginia. A big concern of Senior Vice President...
What jobs will be in hot demand in the Richmond region during the next decade? Jobs in the health care and social assistance sector and in the retail industry top the list. For instance, the health care and social assistance sector is expected to need nearly 40,000 workers in the...
President Trump’s proposal to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency’s $8.1-billion budget by $1.6 billion was cut to an $80-million trim in the omnibus spending bill. However, the EPA funding and staff controversy will undoubtedly resume during the next budgetary battles in September. That’s fueling consternation and con jobs in the...
In another life, I founded and built a direct marketing company. We contacted folks using names acquired from “list companies” that offered to rent to us the names of those people with similar backgrounds. These lists were developed by companies and organizations that allowed their customer names to be used...
Rebecca McEvoy, a retired school teacher coping with multiple sclerosis, borrowed $84,000 under the federal Parent Plus program to help her oldest son through art and design school. When he graduated, the government expunged the debt under a law that forgives balances for borrowers deemed permanently disabled. Three years later,...
Manufacturing often gets a bad rap. That’s probably because the sector has declined by more than 4.9 million jobs since January 2000. The industry also has perception issues. Who wants to work in a dirty old factory with oil on the floor and dust in the air? But the manufacturing...
Senior Judge Stephen Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, wrote on April 11, 2017, that an EPA rule governing air releases of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide from animal waste storage must be reported to state and local authorities. (This rule was finalized in December, 2008.) The...
My in-box these days is flooded by commentaries and studies dealing with our autonomous vehicles (AV) future. It’s hard to keep up, but three recent items struck me as particularly interesting. The first was from Scientific American, “How Pedestrians Will Defeat Autonomous Vehicles,” by Karinna Hurley. She summarizes a recent...
Jefferson Journal: Internet Privacy — Careful How We Ask For It
We all want to ensure our privacy is maintained on the Internet. But how we ask for it, and who ensures it can make a difference.
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