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The Bid Before the Bid
ECU Communications built a national agency around an unglamorous advantage: seeing a government campaign long before the brief arrives. The creative work comes later. First comes the patient art of knowing where the money, rules and partners are moving.
Chris Brown Has Spent 20 Years Turning Motion Into Music
A No. 1 single at 16 opened the door. Twelve albums, two Grammys and a stadium tour later, the singer, dancer and painter is still treating a career like choreography: hit the mark, change direction, keep moving.
The Utility Betting $11 Billion That the Wind Off Virginia Beach Can Power a Data-Center Boom
It started as a Richmond streetcar company in 1909. Today Dominion Energy runs power plants, gas lines and a 176-turbine wind farm 27 miles out to sea - and the fastest-growing customers on its grid are warehouses full of servers.
Atlantic Union Bank
Atlantic Union Bank grew from a $2,500 rural institution into a $38.1 billion Mid-Atlantic franchise. Its wager is that scale and local judgment can still share the same balance sheet.