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  1. Electricity consumers in Va. overpaid Dominion Va Power by $500 million in '08, state staff finds. State may seek lower rates.
  2. Must be Pilot alumni week! Sun columnist @jayhancock1 warns the state is moving too fast unlike Virginia.
  3. Great column on the Port of Baltimore lease deal by @jayhancock1 - a former Pilot biz editor - http://bit.ly/5zGTW3
  4. @stephaniemehta congrats on being appointed exec editor of Fortune! She covered real estate at The Pilot when I arrived in 1993.
  5. Sprint hiring 100 at Hampton center, holding 1st job fair right now in Norfolk: http://bit.ly/6VoIQg
  6. Beach offers cash to save and add jobs at German-owned plant: http://bit.ly/5t7ylM
  7. Beach gives Hermes Abrasives $160K to add 30 jobs in 30 months at local plant. Story to come.
  8. Another for-profit university to open, bringing 100-150 jobs to Beach: http://bit.ly/5S6OVd
  9. Hampton Roads remains among top 20 regional economies in U.S. per Brookings: http://bit.ly/5ukJzm
  10. @steinerbiz thanks for the RT
  11. In five years, 45% of mobile phone users will bank that way too: http://bit.ly/6cMhnd (also from Sunday's paper)
  12. Busy day. If you missed the Christmas tree story in Sunday's paper, it's a nice read: http://bit.ly/88t9ug
  13. Wahoooo! UVA wins national championship on PKs!
  14. Virginia set to play Akron for national soccer championship on ESPN2. Go Hoos!
  15. Coming Sunday in Pilot Biz: Christmas trees, mobile banking, shipping deadlines and who are those SC developers coming to Norfolk.
  16. RT @PilotNews: Portsmouth to get new Harris Teeter in 2012 http://bit.ly/8ZZbhM
  17. RT @hblodget: Now Let Us Admire The Clever Way In Which Bank Of America Has Screwed Taxpayers Again http://bit.ly/8HGbr3
  18. Gov.-elect @bobmcdonnell wary of privatizing state's port assets: http://bit.ly/7PI18t
  19. Smithfield Foods loses $26M, but beats Street expectations: http://bit.ly/7J5uOU
  20. Foreclosures down again from October:http://hamptonroads.com/2009/12/foreclosure-activity-dropped-15-percent-last-month