If you live in the Freemason area of Norfolk your mayor is not named Fraim. You report to Admiral Jack Kavanaugh, and in Jack we trust.

Billionaire businessman Peter Siden plans to make a major economic announcement in Norfolk in July. In a statement today, the CEO of Siden Corporation promised “a world-changing broadcast” during an upcoming press release, slated for July 1 at Nauticus in Norfolk.

For the last 31 years, Avalon: A Center for Women and Children has provided emergency shelter, transitional housing, crisis intervention, and counseling services to more than 10,000 local survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and poverty-driven homelessness.

When he was born, the doctor told his mother that prom was one of many life experiences that Colton would never get to enjoy because of those disabilities… St. Mary’s made prom happen for Colton.

“Over the decades our two merging foundations have awarded more than $140 million in grants and helped more than 3,600 people attend college.”

The Pilot’s publisher spoke candidly to a neighborhood group about the future of the paper, the fact that The Pilot is a media company (not a newspaper company), and changes in revenue streams.

I don’t know about anywhere else, but in Blacksburg, sometimes the wind blows so fast it’s hard to breathe – it was one of those days.

So we have some ideas. We are offering these as both ideas for which we seek partners, and also for other small indie outlets to steal.

Ten things you may not have known about the business of death, straight from the mouth of a mortician.

An interview with the founder of Norfolk’s Swag Swap, Alicia Stoner. The event will take place this Saturday at The Warehouse in Ghent from 11am to 3pm.

Last week, it was announced that the marketing department at PETA, which I am a part of, will be relocating to Los Angeles starting this summer.

The best ideas, quotes, and Jesse’s observations from the late afternoon session of the TED.com and NASA idea conference. (Including an appearance from the Oprafamous Mitch Albom.)

More live blogging from the Ferguson Center, where we are listening to riveting talks by remarkable people at TEDxNASA.

Live blog from the Ferguson Center, where a few dozen speakers are giving lectures on fields as diverse as creativity, robotics, song, intrigue and bio energetics.

“I don’t know if Americans knew exactly how bad it was,” said Maria Lopez, who resides in Manila. “There’s one evacuation center the size of a basketball court. On one side are beds for people to sleep in. And on the other side are coffins.”

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An article in Mother Jones exposes “the sleazebucket car dealers who prey on our troops.” The perps: Hampton Roads area used car salesmen.

Dress appropriately for work, because you end up turning off the AC.

…let’s quit this bullshit already and get some due process.

Tonight, Christy Morton, Energy Conservation Specialist at Virginia Natural Gas, speaks to Green Drinkers at The Boot.

Indeed… the mother of these octoplets also has six other children… that she had by herself as a single parent…through in vitro fertilization…and she filed for bankruptcy in 2008 before having them, so nobody knows how she’s going to pay for them.