Hampton Roads News 
HR Partnership | January 31, 2009
World-Class Economy, Rooted in History
On April 26, 1607, 104 English explorers traveling on three tiny ships, the Susan Constant, Discovery and Godspeed, landed at what is today Virginia Beach. Eighteen days later, on May 14th, after exploring numerous rivers and bays in the region, they settled at Jamestown. Today, those two sites form the boundaries of the Hampton Roads region.
HR Partnership | January 29, 2009
The 14th annual edition of Living in Hampton Roads: Southeastern Virginia Lifestyles serves as a resource guide and captures the many efforts of transformation in America’s First Region.
HR Partnership | January 27, 2009
A superior arts and culture climate is vital to the economic health of the Hampton Roads region, especially when attracting new business to the area. What better way to show regional cooperation in Hampton Roads than to share how our numerous arts organizations and venues have developed truly collaborative, economies-of-scale, cost-saving alliances, putting aside artistic [...]
HR Partnership | January 25, 2009
Have you caught someone doing things “jointly” in Hampton Roads? We’re looking for more examples of interdependence and regional connectivity: government, organizations, business, individuals. Send us a link, story, pic, etc. today. The best will be posted online as we launch the new “State of Regional Cooperation” report with stories, live community links and more.
HR Partnership | January 23, 2009
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Contact: Dean Golembeski, Jefferson Lab Public Affairs Manager, deang@jlab.org |
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (aka Jefferson Lab or JLab) has awarded three contracts as it begins a $310 million upgrade project that will provide an international community of physicists with a cutting-edge facility for studying the basic building blocks of the visible universe.
The contracts are the first to be awarded since Jefferson Lab received approval in September to start construction of its 12 GeV Upgrade Project. Under the project, the lab will double the energy of its accelerated electron beam from 6 billion electron volts (GeV) to 12 GeV. The lab also will upgrade the equipment in its three existing experimental halls and construct a fourth experimental hall, to be known as Hall D.
HR Partnership | January 22, 2009
HRP Member, Hampton University’s own Marching Band performs at the Inaugural Parade for Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, on January 20th, 2009. Video Link
HR Partnership | January 19, 2009
Courtesy Lynne Zultanky, Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health Center – Director, Corporate Communications and Media Relations Working Together for Better Health Care, Quality and Ministry Grow in Hampton Roads Photo: Michael Kerner (left), CEO of Bon Secours Hampton Roads, and Mayor Paul Fraim, City of Norfolk Bon Secours Richmond and Bon Secours Hampton Roads have [...]
HR Partnership | January 18, 2009
Richmond Sunlight is a website that aggregates information about Virginia’s General Assembly. It is an independent, volunteer-run website that is in no way affiliated with the Virginia General Assembly or the state government. Click on their logo for a “tag cloud,” a graphic representation of the topics addressed by General Assembly bills for the 2009 [...]
HR Partnership | January 16, 2009
Governor Timothy M. Kaine announced that 162 Virginia public schools earned the 2009 Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence. The award is the highest honor under the Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) incentive program created by the Board of Education to advance Governor Kaine’s “competence to excellence” agenda to encourage advanced learning and achievement in the Commonwealth’s public schools. Last year, 89 schools received the award.
HR Partnership | January 15, 2009
Excerpt from Free Enterprise Forum blog by Neils Williamson, dated October 16, 2008: “It is imperative that we consider the statewide impact of a lack of funding for new roads. Too often, this region (Charlottesville) considers itself an island without contemplating the impacts for even more populous (more gridlocked) regions such as Tidewater (Hampton Roads) [...]
