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Richmond hospitals to ban use of tobacco products

By News in Brief
July 28, 2008

Starting in November, the use of all tobacco products will be banned on CJW Medical Center’s campuses in Richmond.
The ban applies both to inside buildings and outside on campus grounds. CJW’s Johnston-Willis and Chippenham campuses have banned smoking inside buildings for some time.
The new ban goes into effect November 20.
CJW Chief Executive […]

Delegate starts non-profit to push for school tax credits

By News in Brief
July 28, 2008

A Republican delegate has created a nonprofit organization to push for tax credits and other support for alternatives to traditional public schools.
Chris Saxman of Staunton says School Choice Virginia will lobby and advocate for home-schooling, private and parochial schools and public charter or governors’ schools, among other things.
Private school tax credits and voucher […]

APCO can charge more for coal as SCC preps for request

By News in Brief
July 28, 2008

Appalachian Power Company has permission to begin recovering higher coal prices from Virginia customers before the State Corporation Commission hears the request.
The SCC said last week it would allow the company to begin billing Virginia customers a fuel assessment of nearly 12 percent more Sept. 1. It set a public hearing September 23 in […]

Fairfax mulls criminalization of some zoning violations

By News in Brief
July 28, 2008

FAIRFAX—Fairfax County supervisors are considering criminalizing some zoning violations, meaning landlords who operate illegal boarding houses could go to jail.
The proposal would turn what would normally be a civil penalty into a criminal one, if the civil fines for the violation are worth at least $5,000. Supervisor Jeff McKay says it would be up […]

Officials celebrate opening of Beltway express lanes

By News in Brief
July 28, 2008

McLEAN—A project billed as a radical transportation improvement for the congested Washington region got its formal kickoff last week, as officials celebrated the construction of express lanes on the Capital Beltway.
“The beltway is really the main street of this part of Northern Virginia, and it was never designed for the volume it now has,” […]

VSB Disciplinary Actions

By News in Brief
July 28, 2008

On May 20, 2008, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board imposed a public reprimand on McLean lawyer Ashraf W. Nubani for violating the disciplinary rule that governs safekeeping of property. On three occasions, the VSB received notices of overdrafts on Nubani’s trust account. According to the VSB, Nubani has taken steps to avoid […]

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