Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) articles from July 2002

Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) archives from July 2002

Richmond, Va., Airport Sees 10.4 Percent Drop in Passenger Traffic in June.
July 31, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones Jul. 31--Passenger activity at Richmond's airport dropped by 10.4 percent in June, compared with June 2001, a result of continuing sluggishness in business travel and reductions in flight schedules. The 214,394...

Consolidated Bank & Trust Files Proposal to Address $3 Million Shortfall.
July 30, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard Jul. 30--Consolidated Bank & Trust met yesterday's deadline to tell regulators how it will address a $3 million shortfall. "We do have the plan and we are encouraged by it," state banking Commissioner E. Joseph...

Richmond, Va., Officials Praise Paper-Products Company's Expansion.
July 30, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Jul. 30--The expansion of a paper products company in Richmond will help boost the city's long-standing efforts to redevelop the Fulton community, city officials said. Manchester Industries Inc., a...

Computer Company Makes Software for Cost-Efficient Management of Office Space.
July 30, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance Jul. 30--John Vivadelli can't stand empty office chairs and vacant cubicles. In his eyes, they represent waste. Paying for a sea of desks for employees who mostly work away from the office is like leaving...

Stocks See Second Sharp Rally in Less Than a Week.
July 30, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 30--Bull or bear? Opinions are plentiful; definitive answers, few. This much is certain: Stocks staged a powerful advance yesterday, the second sharp rally in less than a week, after months of crumbling...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Business Briefs Column.
July 29, 2002... Jul. 29--ARCHITECTS: Robert A. Boynton has been elected first vice president/president-elect of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, a national federation of the architectural licensing boards of the 50 states, the...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Trade Names Column.
July 29, 2002... Jul. 29--When your business is your life, and your house is your office and your pets are your profit, how do you take a coffee break, let alone a vacation? You don't, according to Jon Betts, vice president of Level Green Riding School...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Company News Column.
July 29, 2002... Jul. 29--FIRM STARTS HEALTH-CARE CONSULTING UNIT: The Healthcare Consulting Group is a new operating unit of Newport News-based Witt, Mares & Co. Victor B. Miller Jr. is the director of the consulting group. He had been with Haggett,...

Dominion Virginia Power Faces No Rivals as Deregulation Comes to Richmond, Va.
July 29, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 29--In 1981, William W. Berry took the stage before a power-industry audience in Washington and showed the boldness of his championship wrestling days at Virginia Military Institute. What Berry, then...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Financial Planning Column.
July 29, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard Jul. 29--BANK/REALTOR DEBATE GAINS ATTENTION ON CAPITOL HILL: And the battle rages on. On one side are bankers, hoping to sell real estate -- not just issue mortgages. Realtors are just as firmly entrenched...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Retail Column.
July 29, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 29--ROSE UNIFORMS OPENS LOCAL STORE: Rose Uniforms has been outfitting children attending Richmond area private schools for decades. But parents had to order the uniforms by mail or, in recent years, via...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Associations Column.
July 29, 2002... Jul. 29--ASSOCIATIONS: Mark C. Packett of the Virginia Farm Bureau has been elected president of the Richmond Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Other officers are: president-elect, Robert A. White of Virginia Marketing; vice...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Speaking of Work Column.
July 29, 2002... Byline: Wallace Johnston Jul. 29--FOSTER AN ENVIRONMENT THAT ENCOURAGES CREATIVITY: In organizations, different types of creativity are needed. One fosters ideas that did not exist and the other fosters new ways of doing work or...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
July 28, 2002... Byline: Iris Taylor Jul. 28--NO EASY ANSWERS EMERGE FROM MASSIVE MEAT RECALL: What's the 411 on meat recalls -- the kind ConAgra Foods Inc. of Colorado announced involving nearly 19 million pounds of beef, some of it tainted with the...

Grocer Tinkers with Hybrid Gourmet and Natural-Foods Market in Richmond, Va.
July 28, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 28--Ukrop's Super Markets Inc.'s top executive made a candid prediction a year ago this week when the chain opened a hybrid gourmet and natural-foods market in Richmond's West End. "Don't be surprised...

Elegant, Historic Virginia Beach, Va., Hotel Keeps Getting Better Every Year.
July 28, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 28--She was once the undisputed queen, reigning over an oceanfront domain of cottages and sand, a haughty, elegant monarch peering down from her grassy throne. When The Cavalier hotel opened in 1927, perched on a...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Bob Rayner Column.
July 28, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 28--HIGH-TECH AID FOR EXECUTIVES: This might interest some of the country's embattled CEOs: a computer program designed to deal with a big crisis -- any crisis. A click of the mouse, and your troubles are...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Real Estate Column.
July 28, 2002... Byline: Tim Vaughan Jul. 28--WAITING FOR 'RIGHT HOUSE' AT THE RIGHT PRICE; WE'RE NOT ALONE: I know you are out there, lurking in the shadows, hiding behind hedgerows. Every time a house comes up for sale, one of you buys it. I don't...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Tech Notes Column.
July 28, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance Jul. 28--NEITHER DEVIL NOR ANGEL, VIRGINIA MIGHT BE IN LIMBO: The e-mail got right to the point. "What the devil happened to Virginia?" the writer wanted to know. Reports said Albany, N.Y., had just won...

Two Richmond, Va., Hospitals Operate New Eye, Ear Center in Suburbs.
July 27, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 27--After spending five decades as downtown neighbors, two of Richmond's oldest hospitals have gotten together and built a new home in the leafy suburbs. The Richmond Eye & Ear Surgical Specialty Center is...

Cause Unclear in Fatal Incident at Circuit City Store in Orem, Utah.
July 27, 2002... Jul. 27--Circuit City has no explanation for how a 32-inch television set fell off a stand Wednesday and fatally injured a 5-year-old girl at a store in Orem, Utah. Chief Executive Officer W. Alan McCullough returned to Richmond...

Union, Dominion Virginia Power Continue Talks over Pensions, Health Care.
July 27, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 27--The union that represents Dominion Virginia Power's linemen and power plant workers continued contract talks with the company yesterday. Three days earlier, Local 50 of the International Brotherhood of...

Performance Food Group Buys Rock Island, Ill.-Based Distributor.
July 27, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 27--Performance Food Group of Richmond has bought Thoms-Proestler Co., a Midwestern food-service distributor. The purchase, announced yesterday, was for $95 million in cash, stock and assumed liabilities....

General Electric Announces Management Reshuffle at Finance Division.
July 27, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard Jul. 27--General Electric Co. has reshuffled its finance business and divided it into four units. Michael Fraizer, head of GE Financial Assurance in Richmond, will take on more duties as president and chief...

Virginia's Unemployment Rate Rises to 4.3 Percent.
July 27, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Jul. 27--Virginia's unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent in June as schools recessed and more students looked for summer jobs. The jobless rate was up from 4.1 percent in May and 3.8 percent a year ago,...

Virginia Office of USDA Names New Deputy.
July 26, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 26--John A. Johnson has been named national FSA deputy administrator for farm programs. He was executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency state office since November. ...

Consolidated Bank & Trust Works On Plan with Potential Investors.
July 25, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard Jul. 25--Consolidated Bank & Trust is working with three financial institutions to raise $3 million needed to keep the bank in good graces with regulators. It is also in the process of selling a loan portfolio...

Troubled Richmond, Va.-Based Retailer Sees Profit from RoomStore Division.
July 25, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 25--Heilig-Meyers Co. stores are a mere memory, but the last remnant of what was once the nation's largest home furnishings retailer is alive and making money. The Richmond-based retailer posted its...

Anthem Gets Approval to Acquire Virginia's Largest Insurer, Trigon.
July 24, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 24--After more than six decades of independence, Virginia's largest health insurance company will be swallowed by an even bigger insurer based in Indiana. Trigon Healthcare Inc., which insures 2.2 million...

Stock Market's Slump Roots Out Former Safe Havens.
July 24, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 24--Wall Street's irrepressible bear is an equal-opportunity mauler. It took some swipes at its usual victims yesterday -- the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 1 percent to 7,702.34 -- but saved its real...

Dominion Resources Stock Drops Sharply.
July 24, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 24--Dominion Resources Inc.'s stock price plunged to a 52-week low yesterday as stocks fell across the utility sector. Dominion closed down $5.14 at $49.97 per share, a drop of 9.33 percent. Up until two...

Individual Investors Bail $11 Billion Out of Equity Mutual Funds in Past Week.
July 23, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 23--People who thought investing in stocks would be easy are learning -- the hard way -- how wrong they were. The stock market took an other deep dive yesterday, but not before twisting and turning enough to...

Virginia Panel Disciplines Pharmacist for Filling Internet Prescriptions.
July 23, 2002... Byline: Tammie Smith Jul. 23--RICHMOND, Va.--A Southwest Virginia pharmacist who filled dozens of diet-pill prescriptions for patients seeking the drugs over the Internet was disciplined by a Virginia Board of Pharmacy committee Monday....

Despite Bankruptcy, WorldCom Says Its Business as Usual in Virginia.
July 23, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 23--WorldCom Inc. says it's business as usual for the company's customers, employees and vendors, despite Sunday's record $107 billion bankruptcy filing. The telecommunications company plans no additional...

Richmond, Va., Company Buys Debt that No One Wants.
July 22, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard Jul. 22--Joel Lewis sits on a mountain of debt and makes mounds of money. The Richmond businessman turns bad money into good money, collecting on dormant utility accounts. His company, InoVision of Richmond,...

Capital One Financial Corp. Stock Battles Back.
July 20, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 20--After taking a terrible tumble on Wednesday, Capital One Financial Corp.'s stock spent the rest of the week clawing back. It still has a ways to go. The shares fell 40 percent on news that the company had...

Dominion Virginia Power, Union Make Progress Toward Contract Agreement.
July 20, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 20--Dominion Virginia Power and the local union that represents 3,300 of the company's workers in Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia appear closer to agreeing on a new contract. "We're still talking....

Trigon Moves Closer to Acquisition of Virginia's Largest Health Insurer.
July 20, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 20--Virginia's largest health insurer has moved a big step closer to becoming part of an Indiana insurance company. But Trigon Healthcare Inc. will have to keep some of its key operations in its home state....

Virginia Commission Establishes Regulations to Protect Payday Borrowers.
July 20, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 20--State-licensed payday lenders now face regulations established by the State Corporation Commission to protect consumers. Payday loans are short-term loans that must be repaid in a matter of weeks (by the...

Dog Collar Made by Richmond, Va.-Based Company Makes Smithsonian Exhibition.
July 20, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 20--Earning a place in the hallowed halls of the Smithsonian Institution doesn't happen all that often. But a unique dog collar manufactured solely by a Richmond-based company has garnered such...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Bob Rayner Column.
July 20, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 20--Beware the herd. Human beings have a tendency to act like cattle sometimes. A couple of bell cows wander off in a certain direction, and before you know it, the whole herd is heading the same I don't...

Virginia Institute's Software Helps Solve Government Benefits Quandaries.
July 20, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance Jul. 20--Fearful of losing benefits, millions of disabled and low-income Americans may be shying away from finding jobs or taking on more hours at work. Some fears are justified. In need-based programs,...

Stock Market Buckles under Strain.
July 20, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 20--There is no joy on Wall Street. The once-mighty stock market took a third strike yesterday: The last of the big three indexes crashed through the low set during the panic selling triggered by the Sept. 11...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Tech Notes Column.
July 20, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance Jul. 20--Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Boom! That's the story if you're wondering how broadband connections through satellite dishes perform. The wait part is "latency." That's the delay between clicking on a...

Dominion Resources of Richmond, Va., Reports Jump in Net Profit.
July 19, 2002... Jul. 19--Dominion Resources Inc. of Richmond reported a 75 increase in net profit for the second quarter of 2002 compared with the same quarter last year. The increase in reported earnings per share for the quarter was a smaller 56...

Life Insurance Companies to Pay for Past Use of Race-Based Premiums.
July 19, 2002... Jul. 19--The State Corporation Commission has accepted settlements totaling $145,000 from several life insurance companies alleged to have used race-based premiums in selling policies to low-income customers. The amounts were part of a...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Bob Rayner Column.
July 19, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 19--The State Corporation Commission has accepted settlements totaling $145,000 from several life insurance companies alleged to have used race-based premiums in selling policies to low-income customers. The...

Pacific Beverages Moves Plant, Headquarters to Chesterfield County, Va.
July 18, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 18--The nation's biggest producer of an instant powder that makes chai beverages has moved its headquarters and production plant to the Richmond area. Pacific Beverages LLC moved from Lanham, Md., to...

Virginia Government Information Now Accessible through Wireless Devices.
July 18, 2002... Jul. 18--Virginia government information and services are now accessible through a variety of wireless devices. Gov. Mark R. Warner said yesterday the state's Internet home page and other government information can be accessed with...

Capital One Shares Slide 40 Percent.
July 18, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 18--Capital One Financial Corp., the Richmond area's largest private employer, got clobbered on Wall Street yesterday. The credit card company's stock plunged 40 percent, erasing $4.4 billion of market value...

State Attorney Generals Want Ban of Virginia-Based Company's Tobacco Lozenges.
July 18, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Jul. 18--The attorneys general of 42 states have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban sales of a smokeless tobacco product made by a Virginia-based company. The product, sold under the name...

At Least Seven Richmond, Va., Businesses Face Displacement.
July 17, 2002... Byline: Jeff Oliver Jul. 17--Sunny Kim, owner of Sunny Men's Wear at 417 E. Broad St., the irony is so bitter he can only laugh at it. For the last decade Kim has been biding his time, scraping by while his city debated how to heal...

Richmond, Va., Restaurant Supplier Expects Big Rise in Second-Quarter Profits.
July 17, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 17--Profit for the second quarter at Performance Food Group Co. should be 12 percent to 17 percent higher than Wall Street analysts had predicted. The results for the Richmond-based restaurant...

Richmond, Va., Businesses Address Hispanic Market with All-Spanish Billboard.
July 17, 2002... Byline: Jeff Oliver Jul. 17--Though written only in Spanish, the message is meant to be clear to all. Richmond's first all-Spanish billboard was unveiled Monday on the west side of the Chippenham Parkway, south of Midlothian...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Trade Names Column.
July 16, 2002... Byline: Holly Carroll Jul. 16--A Richmond company makes a product that people don't notice until they've had a bad day behind the wheel. Customers at service stations or automated teller machines probably don't think twice about the...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Associations Column.
July 15, 2002... Jul. 15--Dr. Harry D. Bear of Richmond has been elected president of the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. Listings of association officers are published each Monday. Pictures are welcome but can only be used for the...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Biz Buzz Column.
July 15, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 15--NEW SHOPPING CENTER: Construction should begin in the next month or so on a shopping center at Forest Hill Avenue and Chippenham Parkway that will be anchored by a much larger Ukrop's supermarket and...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Decision Makers Column.
July 15, 2002... Jul. 15--KRISTI ASHLEY NEW POSITION: Director of Account Management at Work Inc. OLD POSITION: Partner responsible for Virginia tourism account Birthplace: Tulsa, Okla. NICKNAME: "George" EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Business Honors Column.
July 15, 2002... Byline: Michelle Diehl Jul. 15--Thomas E. Spahn has received a special commendation from the Virginia State Bar recognizing his achievements and dedication to the legal profession. He is a partner at McGuireWoods. Bill Agee was...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Speaking of Work Column.
July 15, 2002... Byline: Wallace Johnston Jul. 15--GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE SENDS POSITIVE MESSAGE: Most organizations have disciplinary procedures. They should be complemented with grievance procedures designed for employees to make their concerns known. ...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Business Briefs Column.
July 15, 2002... Jul. 15--ADVERTISING: Trevor Minor is an account manager with Work Inc., where he will manage the day-to-day activities of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation and Nucleus Solutions accounts. He had been with Goodby Silverstein &...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Company News Column.
July 15, 2002... Jul. 15--IMAGING SOLUTIONS ACQUIRING TWO FIRMS: Imaging Solutions plans to acquire two Richmond businesses, Personal Letters Inc. and Optimus Print Marketing. Personal Letters is a direct mail company and Optimus Print Marketing is a...

Virginia Brothers Market Kathleen's Bake Shop Cookies Nationally.
July 15, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 15--Years ago, Robert Weber watched customers pour into a small bakery on the eastern edge of Long Island to buy homemade-style cookies. Many customers drove long distances to pick up a dozen or more...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Virginia's Economy Column.
July 15, 2002... Byline: Dr. Christine Chmura Jul. 15--EDUCATION, EARNINGS TOPIC DRAWS SIGNIFICANT RESPONSE: Last month's column about education and earnings prompted a few more responses than you would expect from an article about the economy. The...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Start-Up Spotlight Column.
July 15, 2002... Byline: Gail Kelley Jul. 15--Something just didn't fit. Donna Sharp wasn't sufficiently challenged in her career choice. Nowadays the owner and operator of The Fitness Connection is pumped. The business she started Jan. 6,...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Iris Taylor Column.
July 15, 2002... Byline: Iris Taylor Jul. 15--AVOID TRADEMARK PITFALLS WHEN NAMING BUSINESS: You've picked out a nice little name for your business. Now, make sure you can legally use it. Otherwise, down the road, your small business might get sued...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
July 13, 2002... Byline: Iris Taylor Jul. 13--Tiana Branch and Shawn Garris of Chesterfield said they purchased a 1999 Ford Windstar from Victory Nissan of Richmond. They said they traded in two cars, wrote a check for $1,000 as a down payment, agreed to...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Bob Rayner Column.
July 13, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 13--It's hard to remember a time when investors faced so many gloomy headlines. Hard but not impossible. The past few weeks have begun to remind me of 1982, when business news seemed to proclaim the death...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Tech Notes Column.
July 13, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance Jul. 13--Insmed Inc.'s top executive says the company is making strong progress on its drug-development projects. The Richmond pharmaceutical firm has cash to last into next year. It's on the verge of...

Richmond, Va.-Based Bank Works to Raise $3 Million Capital Infusion.
July 13, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard Jul. 13--Consolidated Bank & Trust has two weeks and two days to figure out how to raise $3 million. The Richmond-based bank must submit a capital restoration plan to federal and state banking regulators by July...

Circuit City Reorganizes Corporate Merchandising Department.
July 13, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 13--Circuit City is reorganizing its corporate merchandising department to streamline operations and improve sales. The changes, announced to employees this week, should give them more control over...

Federal Appeals Court Allows Tobacco Suit to Proceed as a Class Action.
July 13, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Jul. 13--A federal appeals court has allowed a lawsuit brought by tobacco farmers against cigarette companies and leaf dealers to proceed as a class action. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week...

Columbia Gas of Virginia Prepares for Customer Choice.
July 12, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 12--State regulators have given Columbia Gas of Virginia permission to offer supplier choice to all of the company's natural-gas utility customers in Virginia. The company anticipates that customers will be...

Federal Regulators Keep CarMax Waiting to Become Publicly Traded Company.
July 12, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 12--Splitting off CarMax into a separate publicly traded company will take longer than expected. Circuit City shareholders were supposed to vote today on a plan to split off the Richmond-based...

Deal between Developer and Chesterfield, Va., Board Apparently Falls Through.
July 12, 2002... Byline: Meredith Fischer Jul. 12--When the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors narrowly approved a 282-acre residential development near Genito Road, they did it for money and a much-needed road. The Chesterfield Planning...

Alleged Piracy Riles Microsoft.
July 12, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance Jul. 12--Software has never been a big part of NTK Computer Inc.'s business. But software this week quickly became the Richmond company's biggest headache. Microsoft Corp. has filed lawsuits against NTK...

Virginia Doctors Ask for Assurances about Anthem Takeover of Trigon.
July 11, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner Jul. 11--Physician groups asked the State Corporation Commission to consider imposing conditions if it approves the acquisition of Trigon Healthcare Inc. by Anthem Inc., an Indiana health insurer. During an SCC...

Pilgrim's Pride to Close Harrisonburg, Va., Turkey Plant.
July 11, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 11--Pilgrim's Pride Corp. said yesterday that it will close its turkey processing plant in Harrisonburg and move the work there to another plant at nearby Hinton in Rockingham County. The Texas-based company...

Richmond, Va.-Based Utility Asks to Build Pipeline with Charlotte, N.C., Firm.
July 10, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 10--A partnership led by Richmond-based Dominion has asked federal regulators for permission to build a $497 million natural-gas pipeline between West Virginia and North Carolina. The 280-mile pipeline,...

Richmond, Va.-Area Doctors Question Health Insurance Merger Deal.
July 9, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards Jul. 9--The proposed merger of Trigon Healthcare Inc. with Indiana-based health insurer Anthem Inc. has raised concerns of a local physicians' group that wants conditions put on the deal. Trigon's acquisition by...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Trade Names Column.
July 8, 2002... Byline: Sylvina Poole Jul. 8--INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIRM ON STEADY RISE: Glenn A. Davis started his information technology consulting firm in March 2000, a fateful month for the high-tech industry. That was the month that the...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Chip Jones Column.
July 8, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones Jul. 8--FLIGHT ATTENDANTS SAY BILL LEAVES THEM UNPROTECTED: The issue of cockpit security is heating things up back in the airplane galley. On June 26, after a House committee passed a bill that would give some...

Nonprofit Group Aids Blighted Areas, Real Estate Development in Richmond, Va.
July 8, 2002... Byline: Valerie Hubbard Jul. 8--In a decade, a small, nonprofit group has helped put new homes and other property worth $135 million on Richmond's tax rolls. While this real estate development has given a boost to the city as a...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Retail Column.
July 8, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Jul. 8--POSHTOTS E-TAILER HAS BOLD PLANS: A lot of activity is taking place these days at PoshTots, the Richmond-based online retailer that specializes in luxury children's furniture and accessories. "We're on...