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• Say No to Influence Peddling in Virginia

  Staff Writer | March 17, 2006 3:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I recently saw that a republican legislator from Virginia Beach had to file bankruptcy, as a result of his financial condition. Obviously, financial difficulties can happen to anyone. However, when it occurs to a legislator, it raises the possibility that money might influence legislators.It should not be accepted that influence peddling has become a way of life in our Virginia capital. For this...

• Owners Accountable for Dangerous Dogs

  Staff Writer | March 14, 2006 11:23 AM | 9 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  This past weekend, a casual stroll through many of the parks in the Richmond, Virginia area would you have made you think it was "pitbull weekend". Strangely enough, there were dozens of owners walking their dogs with make shift leashes. In many instances, it appeared that the dogs were actually walking their owners. On Sunday, one pitbull got loose in Monroe Park and attacked at least five...

• CEO Responsibility

  Staff Writer | March 13, 2006 11:28 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  CEO accountability is in the headlines as we watch star witness, Andrew Fastow, being cross-examined by the defense attorneys for Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, in the Enron jury trial. Relevant to this is a bill which has recently been introduced by Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, which will attempt to hold CEOs accountable for manufactured products that are dangerous and cause harm to the...