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          <title>This time, size doesn&#8217;t matter</title>
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Three against one.
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          <title>Youth baseball needs changeup</title>
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Have you heard about the Connecticut kid who was so good, he was banned from the pitching mound in his Youth Baseball League?
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          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:16:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Lowering age ignores issue</title>
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Hardly known for daring, some college presidents are ostensibly so on the subject of the minimum drinking age.&nbsp;
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          <title>Basis needed for searches</title>
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You expect a search warrant to be necessary for authorities to search your home, including your computer.&nbsp;
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          <title>Slow, steady performer</title>
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The good news: Virginia has a moderate tax burden.
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          <title>Until police us do part</title>
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OK, now picture this:
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          <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>The cost of preservation</title>
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It&#8217;s been 15 years since Charlottesville last added individual properties to its list of historic buildings that should be saved.
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          <title>Writing off plagiarism</title>
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This newspaper backs the University of Virginia&#8217;s efforts to combat plagiarism.
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          <title>Schools must retain equality</title>
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It continually astounds us that so many school districts still believe they can treat religious organizations differently from other groups.&nbsp;
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          <title>Offer help to students first</title>
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Common sense has claimed a victory.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:01:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Combating predators</title>
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Victimization of children is on the rise, possibly fueled by a number of causes but certainly by the ubiquity of the Internet and the way it can be used to facilitate crimes.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>New take on old document</title>
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A fabulous cache of letters in a family attic. An artist&#8217;s masterwork at a yard sale. A brand new species in a national park.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Expand data on air safety</title>
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Last year: NASA hit major turbulence when it refused to release data from an aborted survey of airline pilots about safety problems
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          <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Openness, accountability</title>
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Federal agencies may be cumbersome, inefficient, bloated &#8212; all the stereotypical problems.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Bridges still need repairs</title>
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Engineers had already warned that bridges, and highway infrastructure in general, were crumbling with decay.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Road report is positive</title>
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For all the criticism leveled at it, the Virginia Department of Transportation has given the commonwealth one of the better road systems in the country.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:01:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Going dutch, for health</title>
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It&#8217;s not your grandma&#8217;s jump rope.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Drivers still don&#8217;t get it</title>
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Too many people are still ignoring the limit &#8212; even when warned to slow down by big, flashing electronic signs.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:56:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>City violence must stop</title>
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Change has to start somewhere.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Restoring living history</title>
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The effort to bring back the American chestnut tree is a noble effort.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Bird tale not a happy one</title>
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It&#8217;s a heartbreaking story.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Again, FEMA fails miserably</title>
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Criticized for housing disaster victims in formaldehyde-oozing trailers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has finally issued a draft report on how to fix the problem.


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          <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Small town, big dreams</title>
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Hats off to Dillwyn. The Buckingham County town will not give up and accept the slow decline that is killing many small towns in Virginia.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>A diamond in the rough</title>
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Try looking for a diamond in a garbage dump.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Statewide rail near reality?</title>
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Getting from a wish to a plan took plenty of effort. Going from a plan to a reality will require even more.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Don&#8217;t ignore West Main</title>
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West Main has been ignored long enough, as was the Corner before it, except for a series of studies that gather dust.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>A loud shout for freedom</title>
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Humanity. Decency. Righteous anger. Respect for freedom.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Justice never is out of date</title>
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You&#8217;ve come a long way, Virginia.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:01:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Walking&#8212;in good health</title>
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One consequence of higher gasoline prices is that more people are walking or bicycling instead of driving.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Area teacher&#8217;s achievement</title>
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Congratulations to Princess R. Moss, Louisa success story.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Roller girls, scooting Elvi</title>
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The running of the bulls.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Getting away with cheating</title>
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A kid cheats on an exam. Should there be any consequences?
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          <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:01:01 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Slowing down speedsters</title>
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Albemarle County police are enforcing the new speed limit on U.S. 29 just north of Charlottesville.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Compensation conundrum</title>
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Increased compensation for court-appointed lawyers: a solution in search of a problem?

Or, source of a new problem?
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          <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Improving drug safety</title>
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Maybe it won&#8217;t take decades after all to inspect overseas drug manufacturers.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Tragedies all too common</title>
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Yet another tragic story of a child forgotten in a vehicle, left to die in the summer heat:
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          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Study requires outside help</title>
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Charlottesville officials have the right instincts in pursuing a review of governmental efficiency and quality of services.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>A true test of friendship</title>
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First, the attempt was to protect two friends.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Session far from &#8216;special&#8217;</title>
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What was so &#8220;special&#8221; about the special transportation session?
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          <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Welfare system that really works</title>
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When, under the GOP Contract with America, Washington set limits on the length of time people could receive welfare, the need to move welfare recipients off the dole and into employment became even more urgent.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Fast move, slow speed</title>
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 Last month VDOT officials met with area residents to discuss this dangerous piece of road. 


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          <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Bureaucratic nightmare</title>
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This is bureaucratic nonsense at its most asinine.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Not just more, but better rail</title>
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A consortium dedicated to improving train travel in Central Virginia is gaining steam.&nbsp;
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Unquestionably, the intersection at U.S. 29 and Ashwood Boulevard requires improvement.


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Party-hearty New Orleans has the reputation as a wild, brash, beer-guzzling kind of place. But the image is not the real New Orleans, say locals.
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For some, President Bush&#8217;s visit today will enhance their experience of patriotism and pride.
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Richmond continues to try innovative ideas to support Virginia&#8217;s farmers.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:46:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Another 189 acres of protected land has been added to the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park near Middletown.
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&#8220;I really don&#8217;t like needles.&#8221;
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Another sign that Charlottesville may have overbuilt its entertainment and cultural landscape:
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          <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision of June 12 to extend habeas corpus, the power of courts to review detention by the executive, to Guantanamo Bay detainees improves America&#8217;s world image and enhances its security.&nbsp; 


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Capt. John Smith is running for president, and Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross are getting married.


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A new Gallup poll about the mood of America contains some stunning results, such as:
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          <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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We knew that Charlottesville-Albemarle is a preferred address for many non-profit agencies, but we didn&#8217;t know just how popular.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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It is not going to be a smooth trip.


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          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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One of Charlottesville&#8217;s &#8220;best-kept secrets&#8221; got a little more visibility last week when the Federal Executive Institute celebrated its 40th anniversary.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:59:01 EDT</pubDate>
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A spectacular vision for a botanical garden in the center of Charlottesville is being promoted by a local group. The proposed 40 acres of trees, flowers, shrubs and pathways would attract tourists and rival the famed Lewis Ginter gardens in Richmond, supporters say.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:43:01 EDT</pubDate>
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A few years ago, this Nelson County couple grew curious about why the state game department was shutting down activities at the Montebello Fish Hatchery, a tourist attraction and de facto park for local residents.
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The mandate of the Virginia Department of Corrections is to serve Virginia.


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There is but one &#8220;tanning butler&#8221; &#8212; the toned and tony Leo de la Hoz, who plies his trade, and his sunscreen, at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Seventy million dollars for a streetcar line?
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          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Haste may not make waste after all.

Charlottesville City Council is wise to condense its Downtown Mall restoration project to shorten the period of disruption to businesses and visitors.

The city needn&#8217;t look too far for an example of what can go wrong.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Decline hurts prosperity</title>
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A &#8220;collapse of prosperity&#8221; was forecast at a U.S. Senate Banking Committee hearing the other day &#8212; and it had nothing to do with the mortgage crisis or the price of gasoline.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Debbie Ryan has been in our Hall of Fame for years.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The good news: The United States no longer needs vast stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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With his family literally starving, John Lawrence Locher, like so many people in the Great Depression, dropped out of high school to help feed his family. Not only was his father out of work, he also was stricken with tuberculosis. And then, like so many of his peers, Mr. Locher went off to fight in World War II, serving in the Pacific.
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A bridge collapse in Giles County pictures what might have been in Albemarle.


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          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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State prisoners crowding cells has eased lately at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail, we hear.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Pedestrian safety in Albemarle County&#8217;s growth corridor may be gaining the attention it deserves.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Charlottesville-Albemarle is fortunate to have business people like the Jessups, third-generation owners of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Central Virginia.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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&#8220;All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men [and women] do nothing.&#8221;
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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As we look at rail service to solve some of the nation&#8217;s transportation problems, we&#8217;d better look far ahead. In just about 20 years, the nation&#8217;s rail lines could become as congested as a gridlocked freeway.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Hanging your clothes out to dry is once again permissible in Southampton. 


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          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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So. Praise for Charlottesville&#8217;s yurt plan was premature.


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          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Our hearts go out to the family and friends of &#8220;ZZ&#8221; Booth, the 11-year-old boy who was shot to death in his home in Charlottesville.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Look where you&#8217;re going</title>
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Get out of the way.

We don&#8217;t mean that disrespectfully.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Truth is not a technicality.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Virginia saw not just one, but two major news stories last year involving cruelty or neglect of dogs.

But birds?

Birds suffer from neglect and cruelty as well &#8212; proportionally perhaps even more often than do dogs.

Almost everyone remembers Michael Vick dogfighting trial last year. Then there came the raid on the puppy mill near Hillsville, where nearly 1,000 dogs and puppies were seized.

Less well known to most of us is the plight of neglected birds.
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Providing an inexpensive yurt for a woman now living in a tent is a compassionate proposal.

Workable? We&#8217;ll see.


Charlottesville has offered to work with local charitable groups to buy a yurt for Pauline E. Mallard, who currently lives in a tent on her overgrown property on Angus Road.

A yurt is a kind of a tent &#8212; although more substantial than the type Ms. Mallard is living in now. It would sit on a platform and feature electricity and running water.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Can you kazoo? Can you believe that the Original Kazoo Co. is still rolling out kazoos nearly 100 years after producing the first metal instrument?
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          <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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If he were writing this, George Garrett would shun sentimentality, expunge cliched thinking and generally advise gentle restraint
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          <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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&#8220;The General Assembly shall provide for a system of free* public elementary and secondary schools for all children of school age throughout the Commonwealth&#8230; .&#8221; So reads the Virginia Constitution. But we&#8217;ve added the asterisk, because in many places public education is not free for all children.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 19:46:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Sentencing guidelines have come under fire recently from critics who say the guidelines may impose penalties that are harsher than necessary &#8212; such as for non-violent drug crimes. But on one score, sentencing guidelines have proved a major boon for justice and fairness: They reduce variations in sentencing based on race or economic status. And to the surprise of researchers, Virginia ranked well against other states for the fairness and consistency of its sentencing.
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More power for the energy grid.

More grid for the energy power.

But eventually &#8212; a smarter grid that will help consumers make smarter use of their power.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 09:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Albemarle County schools and Virginia&#8217;s fourth public charter school should make a good partnership, benefiting students and the county&#8217;s educational goals.

Sandy Richardson and Bobbi Snow had tried to persuade Charlottesville to approve the Community Public Charter School, for children who need a non-traditional educational environment in which to thrive.

Those efforts hit a wall.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 09:46:01 EDT</pubDate>
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The value of civility, virtue of ethical campaigning and some traditions of bipartisan cooperation, already long lost in Washington, now often seem diminished in Richmond and the rest of the Old Dominion as well. The public values a determination to do better than Washington in these leadership skills. One uniquely Virginia effort to rise above the tide is the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.
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A former public employee from Madison County has won an award named for a Charlottesville leader in a case heard by an Albemarle judge.

For all its local connection, that case should advance freedom for Virginians.

Leigh Purdum received the Laurence E. Richardson award for individual citizen contributions to open government from the Virginia Coalition for Open Government.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 09:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Sitting at a diner downing coffee and doughnuts may be the stereotype for cops, but experts say the problem of the pudgy police officer is a little more complicated than that. Overweight officers pack on the pounds largely because the nature of their job doesn&#8217;t allow for regular meals. They&#8217;re captured by the trap that a lot of us fall into: fast food grabbed at odd hours and wolfed down on the go.
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What&#8217;s fair?


l Cab drivers shivering in the cold?

l Cab drivers running their engines for hours at a time to keep warm &#8212; but burning expensive fuel and adding to air pollution?

l Cab drivers staying warm inside the airport terminal &#8212; but being away from their taxis when passengers need them?
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          <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 10:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Phew! Crisis averted.OK, so loss of the canopy at Barracks Road Shopping Center wasn&#8217;t the biggest controversy in town.

But what sets this disagreement apart from many others is that this time &#8220;the people&#8221; won. That doesn&#8217;t always happen.

Shopping center owners had proposed removing the continuous canopy that shelters strollers from Panera Bread to Richey &amp; Co., and replacing it with individual awnings over each store.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 10:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The &#8220;Please Brake for Sydney&#8221; signs are heartrending. So are the masses of flowers at the entrance to Forest Lakes South near the spot where she died.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:31:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Let&#8217;s see if we have this straight. Albemarle County allows rural landowners to defer a hunk of their real estate tax annually. That&#8217;s if they agree not to develop their property.
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In the Commonwealth of Virginia, public universities have witnessed state support for higher education on a relentless march toward zero since the early 1990s.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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So why are middle class folks so bent out of shape and fretting over their family&#8217;s future?
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There are only nine states in the U.S. that have combined local, state and federal gasoline taxes lower than Virginia.


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          <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A few years ago I saw a teenage girl wearing a sweatshirt with &#8220;Help Stamp Out Middle-Class Values&#8221; printed on the front.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Anyone with a memory of the 1970s may see more than a faint connection between the Khmer Rouge of yesteryear and the &#8220;government&#8221; of Myanmar (a.k.a. Burma).&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Today&#8217;s lesson is about excessive taxation on cigarettes and how that encourages crime. It&#8217;s brought to you by co-sponsors New York State and New York City.&nbsp;
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For those in the audience who have the chilling sensation that this spring has been cooler than normal, now comes the National Climatic Data Center with this news flash:&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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For years, planners have advocated the construction and development of roads and corridors parallel to U.S. 29 as a tonic for heavy traffic on eight lanes there. Improvements over the years to roads such as Berkmar Drive and Rio Road constitute Exhibit A evidence such corridors help ease the burden on the region&#8217;s main thoroughfare.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 11:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
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