Virginia Business, January 2004

Virginia Business - January 2004

COVER STORY
A Split Decision?
With the state facing another $1.2 billion shortfall, Gov. Mark Warner is aiming a package of tax code increases straight at a divided GOP.

Budget woes put Virginia’s top credit rating at risk
Virginia could lose its coveted bond rating with Moody's unless legislators come up with ways to brighten the state's financial picture.

 

HOTELS & CONVENTIONS
Many Virginia cities are building convention centers; are they worth it?

Up, up and away
Hotels and resorts appeal to interests to boost winter occupancy

 

HEALTH CARE
Physician, name thy price
A doctor shortage is forcing hospitals and practice groups to offer better pay and perks.

Virginia Health Information has numbers on doctors and hospitals

 

BRISTOL REGIONAL REPORT
City looks to broadband to grow economy

 

SPECIAL SECTION: BUSINESS SCHOOLS IN VIRGINIA
Darden's solo act
U.Va.'s Darden Graduate School charts its own course to the top.

 

DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Corner

Minding Your Business
- Floyd County mints its own money to keep dollars at home
- The name game

Around the Old Dominion
- Broaddus bowing out
- Schools join bioterror research
- Federal bill has bucks for I-81
- Virginia ranks

Virginia Ideas
- The Warner tax plan: Better on marketing than economics
- Warner’s tax reform: Two steps forward

For the Record
Mergers & acqusitions Cutbacks, closings Stocks, financing
Deals Products, services Legal, regulatory
New plants Divestitures Noteworthy
People Expansions  
Contracts Real estate