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Vol 1, Issue 9: September 2009
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"Out & About in Hampton Roads"
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Hampton Roads Partnership launches new Website: Features include regional news stories, new media sources including Twitter and YouTube, links to regional organizations, spotlights on regional success stories. Read more...
Defining Regional Expectations: How do you create a roadmap to diversify and strengthen a region's economy? Hampton Roads leaders are working together to develop a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) to address that question, called Vision Hampton Roads. Read more...
Hampton Roads Community Blogs: Maurice Jones, Publisher of The Virginian-Pilot, We hear you: From time to time, someone will plead with me, "Can't you just publish some good news for a change?" Read more...
HamptonRoadsInforms.com: A 21st Century online social media experience to provide more regionally focused discussion of issues important to the residents of Hampton Roads. Read more...
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"Arts & Culture"
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Virginia Stage Company's AMERICAN SOIL, multi-year play project digs into Hampton Roads: Part of a wide range of plays that explore the rich layers of "earth" this community is built upon; layers that act as markers of our progress - spanning race and religion, commerce, democracy and beyond. Read more...
Cultural Alliance builds partnerships uniting arts and culture in Hampton Roads: Working together for the good of the industry and to assure the health of individual organizations was never more true than it is today. Read more...
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"Business Community"
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Norfolk: Jacksonville's Twin? An economy based off shipbuilding and the Navy. A riverfront downtown. Sounds like Jacksonville, however it's Norfolk, Virginia. Read more...
Grow your own in Hampton Roads: Farming in Hampton Roads involves the entire family. Read more...
Open Source for Business Development: From the City of Norfolk's Department of Development, a free, one-day educational event is aimed to help attendees better understand the fast-growing phenomenon of open source software. Read more...
Hampton Roads MSA in Top 5 Best Places to Buy a Home: The struggling housing market has sellers and buyers searching for the best regions to get a great deal, and Hampton Roads is it. Read more...
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"Hampton Roads: Economy"
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More Inroads with the Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance: News and events about external marketing efforts on behalf of the region. Dollar Tree joins regionally headquartered Norfolk Southern and Smithfield Foods in earning the coveted Fortune 500 status. Read more...
In Hampton Roads, 1 in 3 homes with mortgages are underwater: More than 110,000 homeowners in Hampton Roads owed more on their mortgages than their homes were worth at the end of June as home prices continued to fall. Read more...
HRPDC-HRTPO Summer 2009 Publications: And, now electronic newsletters are available, too! Read more...
Personal bankruptcy filings soar 42% in Hampton Roads: The number of businesses attempting to restructure their debt under the court protection of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy fell by 38%. Read more...
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"Education & Workforce"
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eXcel, Youth Leadership in Hampton Roads: New development and community education program for rising high school juniors and seniors from both public and private schools serves to identify, educate and prepare future leaders of Hampton Roads. Read more...
STEM focus transforming the camp experience for high schoolers in Hampton Roads: Southeastern Virginia Partnership for Regional Transformation (SEVA-PORT), in collaboration with ODU and Virginia Beach Public Schools, offered Science, Technology, Engineering and Math camps this summer. Read more...
South Hampton Roads kindergartners are ready to read: In 2008, the proportion of "school ready" South Hampton Roads kindergartners rose above the Virginia average. Read more...
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"Government & Citizens"
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Civic Engagement Movement afoot in Hampton Roads to breathe life into a sustainable, deliberative local democracy: Virginia Municipal League's monthly magazine Virginia Town & City featured Hampton Roads Center for Civic Engagement's Jim Oliver, HRCCE Board Chair and Acting City Manager in Hampton. Read more...
If I were your Gubernatorial Candidate: E. Dana Dickens, III, President and CEO of the Hampton Roads Partnership, spoke at the Virginia Planning District Commission Summer Conference. Read more...
Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy: Nonpartisan research and education "solutions tank" includes Hampton Roads-specific indicators in their 2009-2010 Forecast. Read more...
Virginia Named Infrastructure State of the Year, Hampton Roads Rail and Port Featured: Part of the upcoming North America Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum, held September 22-24, in Washington, DC. Read more...
Will Hampton Roads Lead the Way with Civil Health Care Discussion? by Danae Jones Aicher ...here in Hampton Roads, it's the pride of being "the first", the beginning of that great experiment which turned into this democracy known as the United States of America. Read more... |
"Hampton Roads: History"
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Do you remember when... in Hampton Roads? Do you remember when steamboats departed from piers all over this region, for Baltimore, Richmond, New York? When trains pulled into the station on East Main Street? When electric trains left daily for the Oceanfront, and trolleys for Ocean View? Read more...
Hampton Roads, Virginia History 101: Who remembers Henry Frederick? He was the Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I of England, the monarch who was on the throne in 1607 when the first permanent English settlement was established in Virginia, at Jamestown. Read more...
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"Hampton Roads: Military Bastion"
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Here in Hampton Roads, Meet the 2009 Heroes at Home Military Spouse of the Year: Michelle Galvez, proud member of Blue Star Families, writes "A Day to Remember: I Met the First Lady!" Read more...
New Government Affairs Coordinator at Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance: Welcome to Dan Abrams. Read more...
New Commander at U.S. Fleet Forces Launches Blog: ADM J.C. Harvey, Jr. took command and on the same day launched a blog for open dialogue with both the military community and the citizens of Hampton Roads and beyond. Read more...
Economy, GI Bill bringing in more students in "Military Bastion" Hampton Roads: Major increases in student enrollment are being seen at Tidewater Community College and the increase will present new challenges for the school, especially in the wake of budget cuts. Read more... | |
"Research & Technology"
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MODSIM World 2009. Read more...
From Mars to Norfolk: Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) demonstration in Hampton Roads was part of Naval Network Warfare Command's media day for Trident Warrior 09, a conference to evaluate the latest war-fighting technology. Read more...
Hampton Roads is leader in robotics technology: Scientists and suits gathered in Suffolk at the Sensor Science & Technology Forum for Robotics and Unmanned Systems. Read more...
Hampton Roads part of World's Largest Solar Energy Event: More than 5,000 homes, schools and businesses participate in the 14th Annual ASES National Solar Tour on October 3rd to help Hampton Roads residents combat rising energy prices and to improve property values. Read more...
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"Transportation"
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High-speed rail is an ethical transportation system: It doesn't kill, it doesn't waste fuel and it doesn't pollute too much. Read more...
Wake up Hampton Roads and smell the TOD (Transit-Oriented Development): While it's not a train to "nowhere," obviously the initial track can't cover all of the major employment/ residential centers throughout Hampton Roads. Read more...
Transportation Forums for Public Participation Planning by the HRTPO: Your opinions on transportation matter! Read more...
Gas Tax Reality Check Lessons From Europe: The entire price per gallon we pay in Virginia could not even pay the tax on gasoline in several major European countries. Read more...
Norfolk VA-LaGuardia NY Air Service in Jeopardy: US Airways and Delta Air Lines gave notice of a pending "slot" trade between the two airlines that will affect service at New York-LaGuardia and Washington-National... and Hampton Roads. Read more... | |
"Visit Hampton Roads: Tourism"
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'Survivor'-style show in Hampton Roads, Virginia lets Middle Eastern kids cross cultural boundaries: Hampton Roads Film Office worked to bring the "Safari" shoot to the region. Read more...
Virginia Beach convention business thrives as other regions see decline: Top meeting and convention destinations across the country are suffering, problems that started with the down economy. But convention bookings in Virginia Beach are up. Read more...
Race for the Cure, October 17th: All funds from the Komen Race for the Cure in Hampton Roads go to research, education, screening and treatment programs. Read more...
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