Monday, February 18, 2013
Startup Act 3.0 combines elements of immigration reform to spur job growth.
A bill introduced by Virginia Sen. Mark Warner this week designed to jump-start business by creating "Entrepreneur Visas" and "STEM Visas" for highly educated and entrepreneurial immigrants to stay in the United States could help the Northern Virginia region compete on a larger scale, says the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce. “Entrepreneurs are the future of the Northern Virginia region," Jim Corcoran, president and CEO of the Fairfax Chamber, told Patch. "The Fairfax Chamber applauds Senator Warner and the rest of the bi-partisan sponsors for their leadership on reforms and new ideas that will make our nation, and our region, more attractive to entrepreneurial businesses, add jobs, and make us even more competitive on a global scale…
Thursday, September 20, 2012
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Virginia's U.S. Senate candidates Tim Kaine and George Allen traded jabs today at the Capital One complex in McLean. Kaine, a Democrat and former governor and chair of the Democratic National Committee, wants the Bush-era tax cuts to expire for individuals making more than $500,000 annually and cutting subsidies to the five largest oil companies. "Each of those elements represents a compromise," Kaine later told reporters, reiterating the theme of bipartisanship that peppered nearly all of his debate comments. Allen, the Republican candidate and also a former governor, criticized Kaine and his campaign for not doing an independent analysis of the proposal to see what its impact on jobs would be — the implication being that the Kaine plan …
The two U.S. Senate candidates talked about sequestration and the economy in McLean Thursday.
MCLEAN — The potential $500 billion in defense cuts looming in Washington took center stage Thursday at the Capital One Conference Center during the first of three debates between U.S. Senate candidates Tim Kaine and George Allen. The cuts — $1 trillion in total under the banner of "sequestration" — could cost the Old Dominion thousands of jobs, particularly in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. Once meant as a stopgap measure, the continuing partisan divide in Washington has transformed them into a real threat. Kaine, a Democrat and former governor, presented his plan to solve the problem, which largely revolves around ending Bush-era tax cuts to individuals making more than $500,000 annually and cutting subsidies to the five largest …
Co-sponsor NBC4 to broadcast Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce event.
Former Govs. Tim Kaine and George Allen are competing for the favor of a relatively small percentage of Virginia voters in a U.S. Senate race that has captured the interests of the country. Kaine, a Democrat, and Allen, a Republican and former senator, will face off in a debate at noon Thursday at the Capitol One Conference Center in McLean sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and NBC4. NBC will broadcast the debate live and stream it on its website. The pressure is on because of Virginia's status as a bona fide swing state. The Old Dominion could very well determine not only the presidency, but which party controls the Senate. The two candidates have been crisscrossing the state at a breakneck pace only to be locked in what…
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Panel, citizens agree a higher salary is needed to attract the right candidate for an impossible job
"We’re not going to get somebody in here on Tony’s salary," said a constituent at Supervisor John Cook's Town Hall on Monday night. Fairfax County Executive Tony Griffin is scheduled to retire in April, and the Board of Supervisors has begun the process to replace him. According to Cook, Griffin currently earns about $240,000 a year. School superintendent Jack Dale earns about $320,000 a year, and many in the room said that discrepancy would need to be adjusted if the county wanted to attract top candidates for county executive. Supervisor Cook agreed. "The Board of Supervisors hasn't yet set any parameters, but when you're as big as Fairfax County, you find who you want and you get them," he said. "We’re going to pay what we need to pay…
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Award-winning broadcast journalist returns to her roots (she's an '82 grad of Fort Hunt High School) to wow crowd Friday night at Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce dinner.
NBC "Today" host and Northern Virginia native Hoda Kotb whooped it up with a crowd of about 300 mostly women Friday night with inspiring stories of her ups and downs in her broadcast career and surviving breast cancer. "I feel so at home here, I went to Fort Hunt High School [class of '82] which is now West Potomac, and graduated from Virginia Tech," Kotb told the crowd at the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce event at the McLean Hilton. Fort Hunt resident Suzanne Davis, whose son Collin is a sophomore at West Potomac, was one of several hundred Northern Virginia business women in the audience who settled in to hear Kotb after a wine and cheese reception, roast chicken dinner and chocolate mousse dessert. "My mom [Sami Kotb of Alexandria…
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Host will discuss lessons in success and survival at Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce event Oct. 7.
TV fans of Hoda Kotb, host of the "fun" fourth hour on NBC-TV's "Today" show, will want to mark their calendars. The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce welcomes Kotb on Friday, Oct. 7 at an event at the McLean Hilton in Tysons. Kotb, a breast cancer survivor, will discuss her experience at the Fairfax Chamber Women in Business event, scheduled from 5:30-8 p.m., to help promote awareness of breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Kotb was diagnosed in March 2007 and shared her story on "Today" the same year. The co-host, alongside Kathie Lee Gifford, is widely recognized for her coverage of domestic and international stories from New Orleans to Southeast Asia. Kotb, also a "Dateline NBC" correspondent, is a New …
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Awards honor local police, fire and rescue; proceeds from event fund scholarships.
More than 700 attendees honored the bravery of selfless heroes at the 33rd Annual Valor Awards on Monday at the McLean Hilton in Tysons. Proceeds from the event, which was hosted by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, will benefit the Valor Scholarship Fund, which provides postsecondary educational scholarships to the children of Medal of Valor recipients. "The prosperity and quality of life that Fairfax County enjoys are due in no small measure to the selfless and courageous acts of our community's public safety and law enforcement employees," said L. Burwell Gunn, Valor Selection Committee Chairman for the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce. The Awards Silver Medals of Valor Second Lieutenant Matthew Pifer -Fairfax County Police …
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Supporters to gather on Wednesday
Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce members got the scoop last week on efforts to build the National Women's History Museum from museum president and CEO, Joan Bradley Wages. Although it exists online, charter members wish to see a bricks-and-mortar version, built with private funds, at 12th Street and Independence Avenue SW, near the National Mall. "It always amazes me when someone says 'Why women's history?' " Wages said in a speech to the group. "It's dangerous not to know our women's history." Wages gave the lunchtime crowd gathered in a ballroom at the Hilton McLean-Tysons last week a glimpse into how women have been marginalized throughout history including at times not being permitted to read, own property, choose a marriage partner …
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