Virginia Senate Acts On Unemployment Boost Plan
The Virginia Senate Finance Committee opened a look at Gov Godwins plan to raise unemployment benefits from 36 to 42 dollars weekly and 15 to 16 dollars in minimum benefits with no duration change. The measure from Senator Garland Gray was part of a broader push as Assembly nears a weekend recess.
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Virginia General Assembly
Godwin
Senate Finance Committee
J. D. Hagood
Halifax
Sen
Garland Gray
Waverly
Senate
Assembly
Hampton Roads
Edward L. Breeden Jr
Norfolk
Diamond cutting blades weighed by precision scale in Portland
Omark Industries Inc in Portland uses a scale capable of weighing a pencil dot to measure industrial diamonds used in their diamond impregnated blades and drills for cutting concrete masonry and stone.
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Portland
Ore
Omark Industries Inc
Man of Stature Davis Links Height to Authority in Virginia Senate
Richmond AP. Jim Davis, Virginia's tallest senator at 6 feet 6, jokes that true stature comes from the eyes up. The Amherst County rancher and real estate broker runs Shout It From the Mountain Inc. with partner James Woods Davis, plans 4000-foot mountain transmitter sites, and aims to expand his political reach after serving in the House and now the Senate.
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Richmond
Jim Davis
Virginia Senate
Amherst County
Shout It From the Mountain, Inc
Davis
Inc
James Woods Davis
Agricola
James W. Davis
Amherst
Senate
Eldred Hillill
Bon Air
Court Visitor Pays Fine in Amherst County
Ralph Fitzgerald of Alexandria, visiting Amherst County Court, paid a stranger’s fine after Lipscomb failed to cover a $25.75 improper passing charge. Fitzgerald, in court for his son and daughter’s car crash witnesses, pressed a $20 bill into Lipscomb’s hand and asked the judge to apply it to the fine.
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Amherst (Ap
Ralph Fitzgerald
Alexandria
Amherst County Court
Fitzgerald
Talmadge Lipscomb
Lipscomb
Rustburg
Rose
Study Approved for Industry Focused Curriculum
The State Board of Technical Education approved a detailed study of curriculum plans tailored to the needs of skilled industries. Authorized Tuesday, the study targets Northern Virginia Technical College and is expected to have significance beyond the college.
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Richmond AP
State Board of Technical Education
Northern Virginia Technical College
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