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John Reid Blackwell | Richmond Times-Dispatch | Full Story

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc., which operates two order-fulfillment centers in the Richmond area, said it plans to hire 80,000 seasonal employees to work at its national network of fulfillment and sorting centers this holiday season.

 

That's about 10,000 more workers than the Seattle-based company said it planned to hire for the 2013 holiday season. The company attributed that to increased demand from customers. 

Virginia is the Food Region of 2014

Josh Ozersky | Esquire | Full Story

Look at Virginia on a map. How is it not an established food paradise? The oldest region in the country. One of the biggest. Loaded with wealth and power, enclosing the nation's capital. Vast mountain silences and endless meadows pierced by broad and powerful rivers, all emptying into the biggest, most complex bay system in the country. And yet, the occasional ham excepted, it has never gotten its proper due. It's time. The Old Dominion has seemingly overnight exploded into one of the country's greatest gastro regions.