Our research was telling us viewers in our market are getting plenty of local news, local, local, if you will. It's no secret our 6 o'clock news is skewed to our eastern market. We felt 'Virginia News Tonight' could fill a void that our research is telling us.

This early forecast has put us in good shape.

All the news is becoming more opinionated anyway, ... You can be opinionated as long as you have the research to back it up.

What saddens us is that, even though we got the conviction, the person's still out. Hopefully this will all be remedied by finding him and putting him in prison where he belongs.

Pioneer has a very robust research pipeline. This new research center will help us make the most of that pipeline for customers in this area. Our corn research teams will be working more closely with area farmers and will have more eyes in the fields making better product advancement decisions.

Only a properly funded US stem cell research program will guarantee oversight and the protection of all involved.