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In a study of board appointments for "presidents at colleges with the 50 largest endowments," the Chronicle placed Casteen among the top 20 individuals

Experience actually does pay off. And, the seed catalog beckons.

Each year there is published a listing of the most popular names in the United States. My boomer generation from WASP suburbs matched the list in my day: John, Mary, Tom, Mike, Susan, etc., all the standards. In this era of very creative African-American names, the names of previous black generations match mine. I know black women named Sharon, Cynthia, and Janice.

The Dialogue on Race Policy Action team has proposed to City Council the creation of a human rights commission that would investigate instances of discrimination in housing and private employment and enforce anti-discrimination laws.

Thanks to the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program, conversations between U.S. Presidents and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., are preserved online

Two workshops this week reveal the no-trash lifestyle of local Rose Brown.

Over the coming weeks and months this blog will follow the University of Virginia’s Men’s Basketball team in their quest to return to the NCAA Basketball Tournament. I will recap the previous week’s games along with any other notable occurrences in the Atlantic Coast Conference. What I won’t do is regurgitate all the stats and play-by-play you have countless other sources to access

Engel, assistant to the mighty Aubrey Watts, will take over for the former director, who will focus on his duties as Chief Operating Officer

Third Annual Design House 2012 Fundraiser  The Shelter for Help in Emergency introduces this year’s Design House. The Ivy Farms home of Sanjiv and Cindy Kaul, located at 2020 Wingfield Road, is a transitional style house with a separate two bedroom, two-bathroom cottage. Both overlook a private pond and have been extensively renovated and expanded […]

The Constitution was amended in 1913 to include the sixteenth amendment, enabling Congress to levy a tax on incomes from any source. Certain tax rules were first put in place that enabled the deduction of expenses, namely interest on debt payments. Herein lies the birth of the present day mortgage interest deduction to the IRS […]