cvillenews.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Tom Perriello has been certified as the winner in the 5th CD election, Brian McNeill reports for the Daily Progress, with a lead of 745 votes. Rep. Virgil Goode is challenging the outcome, and understandably enough. It’s being called a “recount,” but no actual recounting takes place. It’s more of a re-canvas, making sure that [...]
cvillenews.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Our area has lost five hundred jobs in the past year, Brian McNeill writes in today’s Daily Progress. That decline of 0.5% is the worst of any of the state’s nine largest metropolitan areas. What the Progress doesn’t tell us is where these 500 jobs disappeared from, since there have been no major layoffs in [...]
cvillenews.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Things have gotten strange between Lee Danielson and Halsey Minor over the Landmark Hotel, Brian McNeill writes in today’s Daily Progress. Minor says that the bank has pulled their funding and construction has stopped. Lee Danielson—and anybody walking the site by yesterday—says that, in fact, construction is ongoing. Both Danielson and the bank say that [...]
cvillenews.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
BoS member David Slutzky is considering running against Del. Rob Bell, Brian McNeill writes in Sunday’s Daily Progress. Bell, a Republican, is up for reelection next November; he had no challenger last year. Slutzsky, a Democrat who represents the Rio district, says that he hasn’t made his mind up, but that what Bell does in [...]
Waldo Jaquith (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Brian McNeill has a lengthy narrative of the state of the Perriello/Goode race here in the Fifth District in Friday’s issue, highlighting yesterday’s revelation that “Eden’s Curve” was promoted using Goode’s fax number. Goode says he will be interviewing his staffers in order to investigate how that happened, showing that he agrees that it’s tough [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... in the southeast and, since opening in May under consultant interventionist cardiologist Dr Brian McNeill, has treated some 300 people who would otherwise have had to be sent to Dublin.Mr Deasy explained: "Effectively the service means a patient can be taken from casualty at Waterford Regional and treated directly at the hospital rather than having to wait upwards of 10 days to be...
