Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) articles from March 2001

Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) archives from March 2001

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Associations Column.
March 29, 2001... Mar. 26--EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS of the James River chapter of the American Institute of Architects include: president, Lee A. Shadbolt of Commonwealth Architects; president-elect, Jeffrey Levine of Richmond Redevelopment and Housing...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Business Calendar Column.
March 29, 2001... Mar. 26--MONDAY March 26 Mid-Town Toastmasters meet at noon, Bull & Bear Club, One James Center Plaza, 901 E. Cary St. Details: Gary Robertson, 752-6585. Merrill Lynch and William Kavanagh offer "Retirement Planning and 401(K)...

Virginia Beach, Va., Credit Card Firm To Issue Refunds.
March 29, 2001... Byline: Carol Hazard Mar. 29--A Virginia Beach company will issue refunds to customers and pay $40,000 in penalties to resolve charges that it violated the state Consumer Protection Act. Commonwealth BankCard Protection Inc....

Virginia Utility CEO Proposes Changes in Power Plant, Line Selection Process.
March 29, 2001... Byline: Greg Edwards Mar. 29--A top Virginia energy executive has proposed streamlining the process of finding sites for electric power plants and power lines. In the case of the transmission lines, Thomas E. Capps, chairman,...

Richmond, Va., Realty Trust Cuts 200 Jobs, Assembles New Management.
March 29, 2001... Mar. 29--Richmond-based United Dominion Realty Trust is cutting 200 jobs, naming a new board chairman and putting together a new management staff that will be based in Denver. The company, one of the largest U.S. real estate investment...

New York-Based Firm Transfers Travel Service Jobs from Henrico County, Va.
March 29, 2001... Byline: Chip Jones Mar. 29--Cendant Corp., a diversified travel, real estate and business services company, is transferring 148 customer-service jobs from its center in western Henrico County. The New York-based company also is...

Commission Approves Contract to Add Boarding Gates at Richmond, Va., Airport.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Chip Jones Mar. 28--The regional airport commission approved a key $15.8 million contract yesterday to add new boarding gates at Richmond International Airport, the latest push to make RIC more attractive for new air service. ...

Richmond, Va.-Area Officials Ask Federal Legislators for Transit Consideration.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Chip Jones Mar. 26--Amtrak trains didn't speed up last week, but if you watched carefully, there were some behind-the-scenes pushes in that direction. Fresh off a regional rail summit in Charlotte, N.C., about 45 members of...

Richmond, Va., University Administers Biotech Project.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Greg Edwards Mar. 28--The University of Richmond will administer a program whose aim is to bring together the various sides of the national biotechnology debate. The Pew Charitable Trusts chose UR to oversee the Pew...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Business Briefs Column.
March 28, 2001... Mar. 26--ACCOUNTING: Amy Geron Smith has joined Carson & Walker as staff accountant, and Sharon Thomas has joined the firm as a bookkeeper. Smith was with Charles Terry & Co., which merged with Goodman and Co., and Thomas was a full-charge...

Richmond, Va., Business Forum Targets Reading.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Amy McMullen Mar. 26--The Youth Matters initiative of the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce will hold a "Richmond Region Reads" campaign business forum Wednesday for all companies in the Greater Richmond area. The forum...

Business Licenses from Richmond, Va.
March 28, 2001... Mar. 26--RICHMOND, Va.-- The following are recently issued business licenses in Richmond and Chesterfield County. Nickel Vending Services (retail merchant); licensee same, 8405 Glazebrook Road, Richmond 23228. MG Construction Inc....

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Trade Names Column.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Holly Carroll Mar. 26--For many sports fans and concert-goers, the only close look they get of an event is offered by a huge video screen. One man in Richmond is increasingly responsible for those screens. He is Michael Rowe,...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Company News Column.
March 28, 2001... Mar. 26--RICHMOND EAST SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE MOVES: The Richmond East Social Security office is moving to the Interport Business Center, 5360 S. Laburnum Ave. The new office will have two additional interview booths for a total of six....

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Decision Makers Column.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Greg Edwards Mar. 26--When Jim Quarforth joined the Clifton Forge-Waynesboro Telephone Co. in June 1980, the pace was slower than he'd been accustomed to as a state tax auditor. At CFW all the accounting was done by hand on a...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Business Honors Column.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Michelle Diehl Mar. 26--DR. CAROL A. GERVIN, president and chief executive officer of The Gervin Group, was invited to address the recent National Small Business Innovation Research Conference in Tulsa, Okla. Her topic was "The...

Virginia University's Business Forum Will Focus on Sports Marketing.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Amy Mcmullen Mar. 26--Regardless of age, gender, race or profession, people often find a common interest in sports. "Sports provides us with a common ground for discussion, passions and metaphors for life," said Dr. Van R....

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Gene Marlowe Column.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Gene Marlowe Mar. 26--My oldest friend in town is a stockbroker. It's Saturday and he's at the office. His phones have been ringing nonstop for days. The market has fallen before, but never like this. "At least in...

Medical Supply Distributor Plans a Relocation to Hanover County, Va.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 28--Owens & Minor Inc., the Fortune 500 medical and surgical supplies distributor, has bought land in Hanover County that it plans eventually to use for its corporate headquarters. The company, which...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Retail Column.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 26--GARY WEINER has found a spot to serve as a temporary store for Saxon Shoes. The shoe store on Parham Road was destroyed in a fire last month. The temporary location, a former CVS drugstore at the...

Richmond, Va., Girl Turns T-Shirts into Profit, Award.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Amy McMullen Mar. 28--Many teen-agers dream about owning a business someday. At one time, Richmond resident Lashawnda Royal, 15, was one of those young hopefuls. But Lashawnda, then 13, turned her dream into reality...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., American Trends Column.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Gary Robertson Mar. 26--NUMEROUS U.S. DWELLINGS COULD HAVE OWN GREEN ACRE: The arrival of spring marks the start of the grass-growing season, and you might be surprised how much land some Americans have to grow grass. ...

Richmond, Va., Trust Firm Assembles Leadership.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Carol Hazard Mar. 28--The Tredegar Trust Co. is reassembling its management team after three Richmond executives jumped ship in late February to work for Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc. John Mason Lee Antrim, who has been with...

Waynesboro, Va.-Based Wireless Company Looks to Technological Future.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Greg Edwards Mar. 26--Will wireless telephones be the future of telecommunications? James S. Quarforth, chief executive officer of Ntelos Inc. of Waynesboro, believes so. He is betting the future of his growing and...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Speaking of Work Column.
March 28, 2001... Byline: Wallace Johnston Mar. 26--Being overworked isn't fun, but sometimes the workload isn't the real issue. Far too often we confuse our feelings toward work with what work does to us. You need to decide whether you are getting a...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Workforce Column.
March 28, 2001... Mar. 26--Robert E. Moorhouse New position: President, Baughan's Financial Services in Mechanicsville Old position: Operated his own CPA firm, Robert E. Moorhouse CPA LLC, from 1997 until the end of last year Birthplace: Long...

Richmond, Va., Ad Agency Gets Job to Build City's Image.
March 27, 2001... Byline: Bob Rayner Mar. 27--Richmond has a no-image problem. In the eyes of many potential tourists, the city conjures visions of -- nothing. The Richmond Convention & Visitors Bureau, charged with attracting folks to the region,...

Richmond, Va.-Based Auto Retailer Plans to Add 25 to 30 Stores.
March 27, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 27--CarMax expects to double annual sales to more than $5 billion in the next five years. The automotive business of Richmond-based Circuit City Stores Inc. plans to achieve its goal by opening 25 to...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
March 27, 2001... Byline: Iris Taylor Mar. 24--Numerous investors might have gotten duped out of up to tens of thousands of dollars in a scam involving automated teller machines, the Better Business Bureau in Richmond warned last week. Tom Gallagher,...

CORRECTION: Grant Helps Richmond, Va., Libraries Install Web Connections.
March 27, 2001... Byline: McGregor McCance Mar. 24--The story slugged RV-LIBRARY-NET, filed for Mar. 24, contained an erroneous headline. The grant was by the the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The complete, unchanged story follows. Mar. 24--A...

Central Virginia Technology Firms Look to Form Alliance.
March 27, 2001... Byline: McGregor McCance Mar. 24--Technology groups in Richmond, Charlottesville and Hampton Roads figure an alliance could help each region find more investments and services for its young firms. The three councils aren't planning a...

Judge Rejects Virginia Company's Challenge to Tobacco Settlement.
March 27, 2001... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Mar. 27--A federal judge yesterday dismissed a Virginia tobacco company's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the $206 billion multistate tobacco settlement. U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer...

Richmond, Va., Trucking Companies Sell Ad Space on Sides of Trailers.
March 27, 2001... Byline: Chip Jones Mar. 24--That next billboard you see might be making a left turn. Trucking companies, facing rising fuel costs, are soliciting advertisers for their truck sides. And sign makers -- armed with new ways of...

Competition Among Web Technology Firms Thrives in Virginia.
March 27, 2001... Byline: McGregor McCance Mar. 24--In rural Prince George County, schools and the local government are turning to wireless systems for Internet connections and data transfer. The county school system used a wireless, point-to-point...

Richmond, Va.-Based Advertising Giant Has Big Night at Awards Show.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Bob Rayner Mar. 17--The Martin Agency took the top prize at last night's Richmond Show, the local advertising industry's annual awards competition. Martin, Richmond's largest agency, won the Best in Show award for a...

Richmond, Va., Executive Gets Top Local Advertising Honor.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Bob Rayner Mar. 13--After winning advertising awards just about everywhere, Cabell Harris finally nabbed the biggest prize his hometown has to offer. Harris is the 2001 Ad Person of the Year, an honored bestowed by the...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Trade Names Column.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Chip Jones Mar. 17--Shana Kaufman has been attacked with a laptop computer, shoved by an angry passenger and has seen an irate traveler jump over a counter to choke a ticket agent. She also has dealt with nudity. So how...

Virginia Veterinarian Expresses Concern about Cattle Disease.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Greg Edwards Mar. 16--Foot-and-mouth disease has the state veterinarian worried about the devastation that could follow should the virus find its way across the Atlantic to Virginia's farms. "Foot-and-mouth disease is...

Richmond, Va.-Based Investor Information Firm Expands Its Portfolio.
March 26, 2001... Byline: McGregor McCance Mar. 20--As more companies use the Internet to communicate with investors and meet disclosure requirements, World Investor Link Inc. plans to be in position for a share of the business. The Richmond firm said...

Richmond, Va., Service Helps Welfare Recipients Find Jobs.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Carol Hazard Mar. 13--Robin Paige doesn't give up easily. Yet, there she was -- starting all over, again. The single mother had two young children and no job. She had just returned to Richmond after moving briefly to...

Richmond, Va., Media Company Decides to Eliminate Quarterly Stockholder Report.
March 26, 2001... Mar. 17--Media General Inc. publishes 25 daily newspapers, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch. But it recently decided to kill one of its smallest publications -- the quarterly report to the company's shareholders. The final report,...

Philip Morris Hopes to Bring in New Hires at Richmond, Va., Cigarette Plant.
March 26, 2001... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Mar. 20--For the first time in decades, Philip Morris USA plans to hire a significant number of workers at its Richmond cigarette plant. Company officials say employees have been working too many overtime...

Richmond, Va.-Area Realtors Complain about New Tech Listing Service.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Donna W. Rogers Mar. 15--Realtors and others in greater Richmond and Southside Virginia who use the local Multiple Listing Service are finding the walkway to technology has some cracks in it these days. Many are complaining...

Richmond, Va.-Based Real Estate Investment Trust Makes Offer for Shares.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Donna W. Rogers Mar. 13--Cornerstone Realty Income Trust Inc. announced yesterday it has begun a tender offer for all of its outstanding Series A Convertible Preferred Shares to increase the equity base for its common...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Retail Column.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 19--CHICK-FIL-A TARGETS AREA FOR UNITS: Chick-fil-A played a key role in the late 1960s in the creation of mall food courts. The Atlanta-based chain opened its first unit in a mall in 1967. And most of...

Richmond, Va., Retailing Group Honors Target Executive.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 16--Tom Sands never thought he would make a career in retailing after his first job. While in college, he swept floors at a store in Los Angeles. He later took a job as a store manager at Target,...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Tech Notes Column.
March 26, 2001... Byline: McGregor McCance Mar. 17--Sandy Williamson says his company's Java developers are plainly "in a league of their own." Williamson, chief executive of CapTech Ventures Inc., then looks at his business partner, Slaughter...

Southeast Leaders Say Better Train Service Could Ease Traffic.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Chip Jones Mar. 20--The Southeast needs to improve train service to help ease congestion on highways and airport runways, a coalition of business and political leaders agreed yesterday in Charlotte, N.C. A key part of the...

Richmond, Va., Trust Company Sues Former Employees, Legg Mason over Departures.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Carol Hazard Mar. 13--The Tredegar Trust Co. has been gutted from the top. Three senior officers, including the president and chief executive officer, left the company's main office in Richmond to accept executive positions...

Richmond, Va.-Based Trust Company Angered over Exit of Three Senior Officials.
March 26, 2001... Byline: Carol Hazard Mar. 15--The Tredegar Trust Co. has been gutted from the top. Three senior officers, including the president and chief executive officer, left the company's main office in Richmond to accept executive positions...

Virginia Bank Firm CEO Plans His Retirement.
March 24, 2001... Byline: Carol Hazard Mar. 24--Thomas M. Boyd Jr. is retiring as president and chief executive officer of Eastern Virginia Bankshares Inc. Thomas "Ned" Stephenson, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Eastern...

Virginia Takes Steps to Avoid Foot and Mouth Disease.
March 24, 2001... Byline: Greg Edwards Mar. 24--State agricultural officials yesterday took further action to keep foot-and-mouth disease out of Virginia by imposing limits on importing horses and dogs. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and...

Virginia Professor Urges Responsible Consumption as Member of U.N. Panel.
March 24, 2001... Byline: Bob Rayner Mar. 24--As an advertising whiz kid, Jelly Helm helped companies sell soft drinks, software, running shoes, even tattoos. Now he is making a much tougher pitch: marketing moderation. Helm, a professor at the...

Virginia Hispanic-Owned Businesses Double, Census Shows.
March 23, 2001... Byline: Michael Martz Mar. 22--The number of Hispanic-owned businesses in Virginia nearly doubled over a five-year period in the mid-1990s. In the Richmond area, their numbers almost tripled. The U.S. Census Bureau said yesterday the...

Supreme Court Rules on Circuit City Arbitration Case.
March 23, 2001... Byline: Alan Cooper Mar. 21--The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Richmond-based Circuit City Stores Inc. can enforce its mandatory arbitration agreements with its employees in federal court. The 5-4 decision brought the...

Richmond, Va.-Based Energy Company Reports Sale of Synthetic Fuel Firm.
March 23, 2001... Byline: Greg Edwards Mar. 22--Massey Energy Co. of Richmond said yesterday it has sold a majority interest in a synthetic-fuel subsidiary to an unidentified major financial institution. The sale of the interest in Appalachian Synfuel...

First Union Agrees To Settle Class-Action Lawsuits.
March 23, 2001... Byline: Alan Cooper Mar. 23--First Union Corp. agreed yesterday to pay $26 million to settle two class-action lawsuits alleging that it acted in its own interest, rather than for the benefit of its employees, in managing its 401(k)...

Virginia Utility To Reduce Natural Gas Prices.
March 23, 2001... Mar. 23--Columbia Gas of Virginia will again reduce the charge its customers pay for natural gas, bringing the company's total gas price reductions in the past 30 days down 17.69 percent. As a state-regulated gas utility, Columbia passes...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Real Estate Notes Column.
March 23, 2001... Byline: Donna W. Rogers Mar. 22--VIRGINIANS DIDN'T LET the after-holiday bill-paying blahs ruin their appetite for homes in January, according to the Virginia Association of Realtors. Compared with figures from January 2000, pending...

Richmond, Va.-Based Workstation Firm to Report Quarterly, Annual Losses.
March 23, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 22--Open Plan Systems Inc., a remanufacturer of office workstations that has struggled in recent years, expects to report a loss for both the fourth quarter and the fiscal year. The Richmond-based...

New Job Applicants Face a Legal Maze.
March 22, 2001... Byline: McGregor McCance Mar. 22--Want a good job today? A hill of pre-employment legal documents and processes could temper your enthusiasm for what otherwise seems a perfect opportunity. Maybe the prospective employer expects you...

Fed's Rate Cut Not Aggressive Enough for Investors.
March 21, 2001... Byline: Carol Hazard Mar. 21--The Federal Reserve's move yesterday to cut a key interest rate by half a percentage point is good news for people shopping for mortgages, auto loans and other rate-sensitive loans. But investors are not so...

Popular Richmond, Va., Restaurant Closes Its Doors.
March 21, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 21--The Frog and the Redneck, an acclaimed Richmond restaurant whose signature dishes include jumbo lump crabcakes and sweet red pepper soup, served its last meal Saturday night. Owner Jimmy Sneed...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Business Briefs Column.
March 20, 2001... Mar. 19--Distributing PERFORMANCE FOOD GROUP has these changes: John D. Austin was elected by the board of directors to be vice president, finance, a new position. He will continue as corporate secretary. He joined Performance in 1995 as...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Biz Buzz Column.
March 20, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 19--CHICK-FIL-A TARGETS AREA FOR UNITS: Chick-fil-A played a key role in the late 1960s in the creation of mall food courts. The Atlanta-based chain opened its first unit in a mall in 1967. And most of...

Richmond, Va.-Based CarMax Profits from Used-Car Superstores.
March 20, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 19--W.Austin Ligon finally triumphed. The naysayers said it couldn't be done. Even the experts were skeptical. But Ligon and his team engineered a new way to sell used cars and do so profitably....

Richmond, Va.-Area Medical Centers Juggle Profits, Services.
March 20, 2001... Byline: Tammie Smith Mar. 18--Until last year, when 28-year-old Lewis Jones was diagnosed with a type of lymphoma, he hadn't spent much time in hospitals. During the past year, though, he's seen more of hospitals than he's cared to,...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Start-Up Spotlight Column.
March 20, 2001... Byline: Amy McMullen Mar. 19--While working for the U.S. Postal Service in New York 10 years ago, Panama native Clifford Waterman dreamed of owning his own restaurant. He imagined serving his family recipes in an upbeat, colorful...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
March 19, 2001... Byline: Iris Taylor Mar. 17--December 2000 marked the start of a job-cutting binge that, if it continues at the same pace, could cause more than 750,000 workers to be out of a job by the end of this year, said Chicago-based Challenger,...

Richmond, Va.-Based Chemical Additive Maker Lays Off Employees.
March 13, 2001... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Mar. 13--Ethyl Corp.'s ongoing financial difficulties hit home yesterday, costing some of the company's local employees their jobs. The Richmond-based corporation, a maker of chemical additives for fuels...

Corporate Loyalty Is Alive at Richmond, Va.-Based Financial Services Firm.
March 13, 2001... Byline: Carol Hazard Mar. 13--Corporate loyalty may be dead, but not at Virginia Asset Management Cos. Most of the 60 advisers associated with the Richmond-based financial services company were hired directly from college and trained...

Nasdaq Continues Free Fall to Close below 2,000 Points.
March 13, 2001... Byline: Bob Rayner Mar. 13--The Nasdaq composite, after soaring to unbelievable heights just a year ago, continued its stomach-wrenching plunge yesterday, pulling much of the broader market down with it. Kent Engelke, an analyst at...

Virginia Official Seeks Dismissal of Chester, Va., Tobacco Firm's Lawsuit.
March 13, 2001... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Mar. 13--The state attorney general's office asked a federal judge yesterday to dismiss a Virginia-based tobacco company's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the $206 billion multistate tobacco...

AT&T To Close Chesterfield County, Va., Operator-Assistance Center.
March 12, 2001... Byline: Greg Edwards Mar. 8--AT&T Corp. plans to close its operator-assistance center on Turner Road in Chesterfield County on June 23. Tommy Moss, president of Communications Workers of America Local 2201, has written Gov. Jim...

Wonder Bread Bakery in Downtown Richmond, Va., Will Close in May.
March 12, 2001... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Mar. 7--The rich, warm aroma of baking bread that wafts from Wonder Bread's downtown bakery will disappear in May. Interstate Bakeries Corp., which has owned the 92-year-old plant on South Jefferson Street...

Richmond, Va., CVS Worker Celebrates 60 Years on the Job.
March 12, 2001... Byline: Carol Hazard Mar. 9--Think 40 years is a long time to be with a company? Try 60. Helen Berry can't recall how many bosses she's had, but a half-dozen or so came yesterday to celebrate her 60 years with CVS Pharmacy. ...

Newport News, Va., Developer to Blend Books by Local Author into Project.
March 12, 2001... Byline: Andrew Petkofsky Mar. 6--NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--Rather than swimming pools or tennis courts, Robert L. "Bobby" Freeman Jr. is loading his Port Warwick development with amenities such as sidewalks, benches, formal squares, massive...

Farmville, Va., Hotel Given Massive Renovation by Local Developer.
March 12, 2001... Byline: Kathryn Orth Mar. 3--FARMVILLE, Va. --The Hotel Weyanoke, the grand old lady of Farmville, has become something of a . . . well, a teen-ager again. The lobby of the sedate brick building on High Street, just a block off Main,...

Virginia's Unemployment Rate Rises Slightly in January.
March 12, 2001... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Mar. 9--Virginia's unemployment rate rose slightly in January but was still at its lowest level for the month since the state began keeping records in 1950. A slowdown in retail hiring after the holidays...

Richmond, Va.-Based Restaurant Distributor to Buy Florida Seafood Firm.
March 12, 2001... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Mar. 8--Restaurant distributor Performance Food Group Co. plans to buy a Florida-based seafood distributor and processor in a deal valued at $70 million. The purchase of Empire Seafood Holding Corp. should...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Small Business Column.
March 12, 2001... Byline: Gail Kelley Mar. 3--Long on hunger? Short on time? A stop at a fast-food restaurant would be the bill of fare, right? Oftentimes, not so. Low-skilled workers and high turnover rates can combine to make the wait for fast food...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Tech Notes Column.
March 12, 2001... Byline: McGregor McCance Mar. 3--Workers who left "traditional" firms for dot-coms or other Internet startups are returning more frequently to their original companies. But how long will they stick around this time? "I think a very...

Employees of Tech Consulting Firm in Richmond, Va., Symbolize Buyout Trend.
March 12, 2001... Byline: McGregor McCance Mar. 3--When Renaissance Worldwide Inc. started rolling up companies a few years back, a small but fast-growing Richmond firm called The McClain Group turned up in the trawlnet. Renaissance, then operating...

Poll Indicates Demographics of Virginia Computer, Internet Users.
March 12, 2001... Byline: McGregor McCance Mar. 7--Virginians 65 and older use computers and the Internet far less than younger state residents. But the reason may have as much to do with retirement as it does with interest in the technology or...