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  • Courses taking on 'dead-end' stigma07/03/08
  • Germanna Community College will be offering a certificate in industrial maintenance technology in effort to serve the workforce needs of the Greater Fredericksburg Region...
  • STATE WEATHERS RECESSIONS WELL04/30/08
  • Sometime in the second half of this year, experts probably will tell us what we suspect already: We're in a recession. The good news: We're in Virginia, and the Old Dominion handles recessions pretty well.
  • Weak dollar's strong suit: It brings jobs04/17/08
  • Union workers at a big engine-maker, angry about production moving overseas, want the nation's political leaders to put the brakes on corporate outsourcing. It's a familiar story, except the workers hail from a Rolls-Royce plant in England, and their
  • VSE buys G&B Solutions04/14/08
  • Alexandria-based VSE Corp (NASDAQ: VSEC) with operations in Caroline County, has purchased G&B Solutions Inc. in a deal worth as much as $23.7 million...
  • Salaries jump for security-cleared technology jobs03/26/08
  • For information technology professionals, it pays handsomely to have a government security clearance, with salaries averaging 22 percent more than IT workers in jobs that don't require security clearance.
  • Economist predicts tumultuous year for construction03/10/08
  • Nonresidential construction faces a wide variance in demand, materials cost and labor availability, according to the Construction Inflation Alert released Monday by the Associated General Contractors of America.
  • Defense event returns to Stafford next year03/08/08
  • Stafford Regional Airport has been chosen to host next year's Force Protection Equipment Demonstration, a Defense Department event that brought millions of dollars into the Fredericksburg region its first time here.
  • US Job Market Takes a Hit From Weak Economy03/07/08
  • The jobs report, from the Labor Department, indicated that the nation had 63,000 fewer net jobs in February than in January, the second straight month of job losses and the worst monthly performance since 2003.
  • THALHIMER MERGES WITH SULLIVAN PROPERTIES03/06/08
  • RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – March, 2008: Richmond-headquartered Thalhimer/Cushman & Wakefield Alliance, Virginia’s leading commercial real estate company, with offices in Richmond, Virginia Beach and Newport News, formed a joint venture with Sullivan Prope
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