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Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe boasts that he presided over booming economic growth in the Commonwealth during his time as governor, but the numbers show a different story.
More data about the opioid crisis in Virginia confirms how insidious the problem is and how hard it is to address, Old Dominion University's Barbara Blake and James Koch write.
Robotic pets, Washington Monument, senators vaccinated: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports, USA TODAY Alabama Auburn: Auburn University’s nursing school is publishing a free book to tell the stories of some of its alumni and their work during the coronavirus pandemic. Titled “Auburn Nursing – Living the Creed During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” the book includes stories of Auburn-educated nurses who worked both in their hometowns and places including New York to care for COVID-19 patients. The stories show the difficulty of working in an ...
By Robert M. McNab The sixth annual State of the Commonwealth Report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Virginia and probes whether Virginians continue to share a common destiny. The ongoing public health crisis, economic shock and political uncertainty have exposed fractures in Virginiaâs body politic, and present new challenges to invigorating growth in 2021 and beyond. Alas, there is an abundance of bad news. Prior to the onset of COVID-19, Virginia created 502,000 new jobs between February 2010 and February 2020. This past March and April, however, employers ...
3 months ago in Local fwilt Photo: clipart.com 12/22/20 A new report from Old Dominion University says that it will likely take years for the state of Virginia to achieve a complete economic recovery from the devastating coronavirus pandemic. The project comes from the 2020 State of the Commonwealth Report from O-D-U’s Strome College of Business. That report said the pandemic ended a record of 11 straight quarters of economic growth and wiped out nearly a decade of job gains. Virginia had added half a milli...