Media General Inc., parent company of the dying-fast Daily Progress, reported today in its Second-Quarter earnings call that publishing division profits declined from $133 million in the year-ago quarter to $114 million, driven mostly by losses in classifieds that amounted to nearly 30 percent.
The New York Times has come to Scottsville for the purpose of house-hunting. In its recurring property-values feature, the Times chooses a figure, $700,000 in this case, and hunts out three properties around the country that are listed at that price.
Constituents in Virginia’s Fifth congressional district keep ponying up for Tom Perriello. According to his campaign, the Democrat raised $313,000 in the second quarter of the year, which is a record for Democratic challengers to incumbent Virgil Goode. However, Perriello’s campaign doesn’t mention that Goode himself raised a bit more ($390,000) during the same quarter.
Slade Allen Woodson, the 19-year-old charged with the shootings along Interstate 64 that shut down schools and some businesses at the end of March, has pleaded guilty to six felony counts stemming from the Waynesboro portion of the evening, according to The Daily Progress.
In which Feedback sings the praises of the Rap Star Name Generator and Gizoogle.
A healthcare weekly reports today on research conducted by psychologists at UVA and the University of Plymouth (in the UK) that seems to show that where attention to detail is required, happy children may be at a disadvantage.
Space near Downtown to host music while work on Jefferson Theater is completed.
Oh hoppy day! After the Anheuser-Busch board rejected a $65 per share offer from Belgian brewer InBev in June, The New York Times reports today that the makers of Budweiser and distributors of Starr Hill Brewery beers accepted a second offer of $52 billion, or $70 per share.
Performers to compete in round robin; winner to battle Jonathan Richman’s gig at Gravity Lounge.
Featured speaker at this morning’s monthly Albemarle GOP meeting at the Golden Corral was Corey Stewart, Chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, who was introduced by Christian Schoenewald, the head of the Albemarle Republican party, as a “future leader of the Commonwealth.†According to Schoenewald, illegal immigration is a “growing concern†in Albemarle, and Stewart, one of the architects behind Prince William’s tough new immigration laws, was here to actively push those same policies in our area.