There is widespread disagreement about whether HB 711 sets forth the only standards that a locality can set for solar development — and related to that, whether that means that bans, pauses, acreage caps, radius restrictions, density limitations and other impediments that counties have erected to hobble the ability of solar projects in certain counties to even get to a special use permit hearing are now disallowed.
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Illinois moves to suspend data center tax breaks. Here’s how Virginia’s compare.
Most states offer tax breaks for data centers but a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures says that “no two states are exactly alike.”
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Turner: The bill came due
Part two of two: Radford was warned in 2017 that it could not go on. The state arrived nine years later to say the same thing.
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Roanoke Valley and Richmond metro have become magnets for people moving out of Fairfax County.
The percentage of people who move out of Fairfax County into other parts of Virginia is increasing, according to IRS data.
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Turner: What the foundry took from Radford
Part one of two: How a single factory quietly became the thing holding up a small Virginia city’s budget.
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Here’s what’s fueling Danville’s ‘comeback’: The number of people moving out has dropped
After losing population for three decades in a row, Danville is now gaining population again. It’s not because more people are moving in; it’s because fewer people are moving out.
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Former Roanoke College president: Demands and rewards on display during commencement season
Another in a series of periodic commentaries by retired college presidents on the subject of civility.
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The people moving out of Virginia make more money than the people moving in
We delve into a new batch of IRS data that sheds light on migration trends. The most affluent group of taxpayers moving into Virginia are immigrants who chose Loudoun County, not native-born Americans. First of a three-part series.
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A 21-year-old Irish postal clerk saved lives by helping to cancel the original D-Day invasion. She didn’t know until years later.
Many Virginia units were among the first to storm the beaches. Had they gone on the original schedule, they might have been defeated by the weather.
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Tracci: Honoring America 250 hometown heroes James Flinchum and George Hubbard
Among the D-Day liberators are two Virginians who were honored this week.
