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April 13, 2008

Seeing banks through Glass

What’s that you say, Senator Glass? I’m sorry, but you’re spinning so rapidly in your grave that I can’t quite make it out.


April 09, 2008

Moving without going anywhere

People sometimes ask me why I’ve stayed at The News & Advance so long.


April 06, 2008

The dreamer died, but not the dream

The Rev. Martin Luther King could not have planned it any better.


April 05, 2008

Island in the city

The gallant but notoriously rowdy Gen. Jubal Early probably wouldn’t have liked this place. Too quiet.


April 02, 2008

Catching up with the Incredible Hulk

Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. With Mickey Fitzgerald, it’s on his ride.


March 30, 2008

Driven a little crazy by ‘technicalities’

They call someone who mistrusts and resists progress a “luddite.”


March 29, 2008

The street is special

This time of year, nearly everyone is a friend of Rivermont.


March 26, 2008

Historian helps Union colonel stand a little taller

Did you see the movie “Gods and Generals”?

If so, surely you remember Col. Joshua Chamberlain.


March 23, 2008

Reporter roving to Lynchburg

John Burnett’s position with National Public Radio is described as “roving reporter.” Which is appropriate, because later this week, he’ll be roving all over Lynchburg.


March 22, 2008

One positive side effect

They don’t call it the World’s Oldest Profession for nothing.


March 19, 2008

Feeling the need to pray? Pull over

You may have seen the signs, scattered here and there on roadsides throughout the Lynchburg area. “Please Stop,” they say. “I Want to Pray With You.”


March 15, 2008

Lynchburg’s Irish roots, and a St. Patrick’s Day proposal

You’ll notice that I don’t have an “O” or a “Mc” in front of my name. Truth be told, I’m only one-quarter Irish, on my mother’s side.


March 12, 2008

For pit bull, it’s guilt by association
For pit bull, it’s guilt by association

BEDFORD — Spend five minutes with Prince, and you know this dog is a killer.
A killer of stereotypes.


February 22, 2008

Beaming kids up to Space Camp

She may be a Star Fleet Admiral, but Linda Smith wants to make one thing clear - she and the crew of the USS Heimdal are not just a bunch of space cadets.


January 19, 2008

Honoring MLK’s army

Why is it that every great social movement has to have a single human face attached to it to make it real?

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