Cleaning out a desk after 31 years, OK, four desks really, but this one is quite the messiest, yields nice little nuggets of what made yesterday’s news a few years back, having escaped the fleeting flirtation of an editor’s knife and the lure of the landfill.

“Opportunity Time, a Memoir by Gov. Linwood Holton” tackles the difficulties he and others encountered trying to win statewide office in the 1960s South for those like him who opposed segregation.

Becoming a victim of one of the nation’s fastest-growing crimes - identity theft - can be a pain.

No one has coined a really good name for the recently concluded and not-yet-missed 2008 General Assembly session.