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漏 cbies 鈥?stock.adobe Gov. Midas is at it again: on Friday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, handed the keys to a strong economy by his Democratic predecessor, Ralph Northam, took credit for having been handed those keys on Friday.The latest is that the number of employed Virginians expanded to more than 4.2 million workers in May 2022, which means Virginia has added nearly 80,000 since February, which is, yes, great.Virginias unemployment rate held steady at 3 percent in May. This continues to be below the national rate, which was unchanged at 3.6 percent.The Commonwealths labor force participation rate, measuring the proportion of the civilia stanley taza n population age 16 and older that is employed or actively looking for work, rose by 0.3 percent to 63.8 percent in May.According to BLS household survey data, the number of employed residents rose by 18,134 to 4,218,336. In recent months, employment growth has accelerated. Aprils employment growth was the eighth-largest monthly increase, while Mays was the 10th-largest going back to 1976.The Commo stanleys cups nwealths seasonally adjus stanley quencher ted unemployment rate of 3 percent is 1.1 percentage points below the rate from a year ago. The labor force increased by 17,175 to 4,347,177, as the number of unemployed residents decreased by 959 to 128,841. Im encouraged, after one of the worst job recoveries from the pandemic in the nation, nearly 80,000 more Virginians are working today than when I took office, Youngkin said.One of the worst job recoveries 鈥?as if. Virginia Iicb Inside the Numbers: The economics of the University Hall demolition project

The fruit trees arent budding on the hill and the bees arent buzzing around their hives as Eastern Mennonite University EMU settles into winter 2013 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. But EMU has tilled its soil for a flourishing edible campus in the spring.Springtime visitors can expect to stroll by asparagus hedges on their way to the tennis courts. Theyll circumvent the compost pile and c stanley mug hicken house-on-wheels by the soccer field. And theyll need to avoid disturbing the four beehives near a popular hilltop meeting room.Situated on the western edge of the small city of Harrisonburg, Va. 鈥?often overshadowed by nearby James Madison University with 10 times the student population 鈥?EMU is gradually gaining a small measure of fame for its devotion to what it calls creation care. Caring for Gods creation started in 1976-77 at EMU when a science professor opted to spend his sabbatical year studying the taza stanley ways the college could cut fuel consu stanley thermosflasche mption. He succeeded. Among other steps, EMU launched into energy-efficient construction, with new buildings heated and cooled by a unique closed-loop system in the 1980s. In the fall of 2010 EMU became the host of what was then the largest solar-panel deployment in Virginia.In 2011, students and grounds workers created an edible landscape by sprinkling 1,000 food-producing plants around the 100-acre campus. This started because students saw Food Inc. 2008 documentary, critiquing agribusiness] and began knocking on my door saying