Four community colleges in Southwest Virginia have signed agreement to train workers for wind energy supply chain.
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Posted inOpinion
Some reasons for optimism
On baseball’s Opening Day, every team thinks it can win. Here are some reasons to think Southwest and Southside can, too.
Posted inEconomy
Project Veer update: ‘Now is the time’ for Southwest to look at offshore wind industry
Southwest Virginia is looking at what it needs to do to capture part of wind energy business.
Posted inOpinion
Child care a priority for SWVA families and businesses: will Richmond see?
The lack of child care is an obstacle to economic development in rural Virginia, especially Southwest Virginia.
Posted inCulture
Caving team discovers, retrieves rare ice age-era cat skeleton from Southwest Virginia cave
A paleontologist suspects the bones belonged to an American cheetah that lived in Lee County could be up to 500,000 years old.
Posted inOpinion
Who funded voter suppression in rural Virginia?
We now know who supplied most of the money for a group of Democrats who masqueraded as a conservative group trying to undermine the Republican candidate for governor.
Posted inOpinion
A reality check on remote workers
Rural localities are counting on an influx of remote workers to reverse their population declines. How realistic is this?
Posted inOpinion
Could Southwest Virginia be a center for wind turbine manufacturing?
Why having a plan matters, and why other communities should take notice.
Posted inOpinion
Was report on coalfield economy worth the trouble?
The study on the coalfields economy — part of what the region got in return for the repeal of coal tax credits — is now out.
Posted inPolitics
‘We are fighting a biological war’
Northam urges residents in rural Virginia, where vaccination hesitancy is the highest, to roll up their sleeves.
