Virginia Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling issued the following statement today, following the President’s announcement that the White House is cancelling Lease Sale 220 off the coast of Virginia. The lease sale was scheduled for 2012.

Unemployment rates fell in the District, Maryland and Virginia last month, according to government data released Friday, marking the first regionwide decline in joblessness since the recession began…

Governor Bob McDonnell and Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, who serves as Virginia’s Chief Jobs Creation Officer, issued the following joint statement this afternoon regarding news that Stanley Furniture will lay off 530 workers currently employed at their Henry County plant…

From drawing board to Tuesday’s groundbreaking, Alpha Natural Resources’ new $21 million corporate headquarters already has grown by more than 20 percent. It has been that kind of meteoric rise for the nation’s third-largest coal company, which formed just eight years ago. On a bluff overlooking Sugar Hollow Park on Tuesday, state and local officials joined about 200 company employees to celebrate the start of site work for the 130,000-square-foot, five-story building. Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield recounted some of that growth during the ceremony.

STANLEYTOWN – It’s another blow for the Martinsville-Henry County area.
Stanley Furniture announced Wednesday that it expects to lay off 530 people at its plant in Henry County as part of a restructuring plan.
The company plans to move the majority of the manufacturing of its adult furniture line from Stanleytown to several offshore vendors.  Workers heard …