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          <title>Letters to the Editor for Friday, November 20, 2009</title>
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          <title>Ethics Probe of Legislator Is Essential</title>
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Del. Phil Hamilton, of Virginia Beach, was one of the most powerful legislators in the General Assembly. He was chairman of the powerful Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee in the House of Delegates. He was the No. 2 Republican on the omniponent Appropriations Committee, chaired by Del. Lacey Putney, of Bedford. He also was a House budget conferee who, each year, played a key role in developing the state&#8217;s budget. Behind Speaker of the House Bill Howell, of Stafford County, and Putney, he was arguably the third-most powerful person in the Assembly.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Do Virginia&#8217;s Best Students Get the Best?</title>
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Twenty years ago, Virginia high school students with good grades and extracurricular activities had little trouble gaining admission to their choice of the state&#8217;s top colleges and universities.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A poet&#8217;s take on politics and more</title>
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Like most poets, John Casteen IV loves to quote other poets: William Butler Yeats, for instance.           ]]></description>
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          <title>More Adults Ignore Risks of Smoking</title>
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It makes no sense. Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death and illness in the United States. It also causes cancer, heart disease and other fatal conditions.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:14 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>A son&#8217;s legacy imprinted on E.C. Glass</title>
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Heidi James knew that memories are usually fleeting. That was one of the things that haunted her when her 18-year-old son Nelson died in an automobile accident in September 2008.           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:56 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>America&#8217;s Financial Bleeding Has to Stop</title>
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Rep. Frank Wolf, a Northern Virginia Republican congressman who represents the 10th District in the House of Representatives, is not a politician who&#8217;s prone to hyperbole.           ]]></description>
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          <title>A robust personality, a brother, a Marine</title>
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When you think about it, George Rice recruited his younger brother Ed three times.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Arabs Among Us Are Not Our Enemies</title>
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There is a far greater issue at hand, though, and that is a growing fear within the American Muslim and American Arab communities that the rest of America views them all as potential traitors and as laying-in-wait jihadists poised to take down the U.S., one non-Arab, one non-Muslim at a time.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:54 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:36 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>A Step Toward High&#45;Tech Jobs for the Region</title>
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The region took an important step toward a university-level research facility for engineering last week. The Center for Advanced Engineering and Research, a Region 2000 initiative, broke ground on a research campus at New London Business and Technology Center on U.S. 460.           ]]></description>
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          <title>For former Moral Majority member, Jesus&#8217; footsteps lead to unexpected places</title>
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If you knew the Ed Dobson who lived in Lynchburg &#8212; the Bob Jones University graduate who served on the board of Moral Majority, edited the Fundamentalist Journal and helped ghostwrite the Rev. Jerry Falwell&#8217;s book, &#8220;The Fundamentalist Phenomenon&#8221; &#8212; you probably wouldn&#8217;t recognize him now.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:58:12 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Old rockers never die</title>
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Lynchburg is a city that loves history &#8212; and that apparently extends to music.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Preserving History of Fifth Street</title>
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Redeveloping an old part of Lynchburg &#8212; or any city &#8212; always raises these questions: Do you tear down the old, often damaged, buildings and start over? Or do you try to salvage the old buildings and give them a new life?           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:20 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Buying Time for the D&#45;Day Memorial</title>
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While the decision to lay off nearly half the staff at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford didn&#8217;t come as a big surprise, it could be a portent of the memorial&#8217;s future beyond the coming winter.           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:21:12 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Front and center at the CIA</title>
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Now that George Jameson has retired from the Central Intelligence Agency, is he free to spill the agency&#8217;s deepest secrets out on the lecture circuit? 
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          <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Virginia&#8217;s Governor&#45;Elect Faces Many Challenges</title>
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In the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, to say that Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell faces a challenge or two as Virginia&#8217;s 71st chief executive would be to put it mildly.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Chipping away at oppression</title>
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As it turned out, the Berlin Wall didn&#8217;t just collapse under the weight of history &#8212; it exploded outward, flung to the four winds as if all the collective explosive power of the Soviet empire had been detonated beneath it.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tax Cut Plan Weighed Down by City Politics</title>
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What business wouldn&#8217;t like to have its business license tax reduced? Businesses, like individuals, would be only too happy to see a reduction in the local tax, a reduction that would put more money in their pockets.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Church, state, and city voters</title>
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Should local residents like my Election Night correspondent be worried?           ]]></description>
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          <title>In Ward I, politics are personal</title>
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The 23rd District House of Delegates race was really two elections in one.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Letters to the Editor for Wednesday, November 4, 2009</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:51 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Is Consensus Possible on U.S. 29 Bypass?</title>
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If the latest study of the U.S. 29 corridor &#8212; including a bypass around Charlottesville &#8212; was intended to build consensus, someone dropped the ball.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:37 EST</pubDate>
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The long journey on the road to federal recognition of Virginia&#8217;s Indian tribes may be nearing its end.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:26 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:21:51 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>A prescription for the problem</title>
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Peter Houck takes the current debate over national health care legislation very seriously. Which only makes sense, because he is both a physician and the pediatric medical director at the Johnson Health Center on Federal Street.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:59:13 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:32 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>As Races Wind Down, It&#8217;s In the Voters&#8217; Hands</title>
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As the 2009 campaigns here in Virginia near the finish line, all of the power now shifts to the commonwealth&#8217;s voters.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:21 EST</pubDate>
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A few final political thoughts for election week &#8230;
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          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:06 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>An Intolerable Practice in the Marketplace</title>
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Price-gouging is an intolerable practice that surfaces from time to time in the marketplace. It usually arises during or in the aftermath of a natural disaster when consumers have no choice but to pay the higher price demanded by some merchants for such critical commodities as food, water, ice or fuel.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:51 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Saving a Part of the City&#8217;s History</title>
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Few people in Lynchburg know Larry Cluff. But in a couple of years he could become well known as the guy who saved the old Piedmont Mills building on Jefferson Street from the wrecking ball. In the process, he will have contributed another step toward saving an important part of downtown history.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:43 EST</pubDate>
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They say that our favorite season is always the one in which we were born &#8212; and since my wife, both children and I all observe our birthdays between September 18 and October 15, it&#8217;s inevitable that I favor fall. Here are 10 other reasons why:           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:05:26 EST</pubDate>
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In the gubernatorial election, there is one candidate who has the temperament, the leadership abilities, the discipline and the vision to serve as Virginia&#8217;s next chief executive.That candidate is Republican Bob McDonnell, and The News &amp; Advance editorial board wholeheartedly endorses him for governor.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:41 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:33 EST</pubDate>
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While officials in virtually every state agency are scrambling for every dollar they can find, the Virginia Board of Education is proposing that localities hire additional staff for their school divisions.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:53 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:16 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:38:50 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Alzheimers caregivers go the extra mile</title>
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The marching orders for Saturday morning&#8217;s Memory Walk in Riverside Park were explicit: &#8220;Rain or shine.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:45:22 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>A problem that needs to be addressed</title>
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We&#8217;ve all been told that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. To those, let me offer a third &#8212; the certainty that politicians will use taxes as a blunt instrument to wield against their opponents.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:29 EST</pubDate>
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Del. Valentine&#8217;s extensive Richmond experience, seniority in the General Assembly and lack of a capital learning curve are invaluable assets to Central Virginia. The News &amp; Advance editorial board believes Del. Valentine&#8217;s record over the past four years in office makes her more than worthy of re-election. We lend our endorsement to her for a third term in the General Assembly           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:25 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:49 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>The Glare of the Political Spotlight</title>
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Politics and life in the world of American politics have always been for the strong of heart and stomach, not for the weak and faint of spirit.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:25 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:55 EST</pubDate>
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For the health of Blackwater Creek and its watershed, it&#8217;s a start. That&#8217;s the emphasis placed by organizers on this week&#8217;s project to clean up and improve water quality in the huge watershed that empties into the James River.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:02 EST</pubDate>
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As far as the public is concerned, the city&#8217;s budget process has begun a couple of months early this year. That&#8217;s because city officials have decided to sponsor a series of workshops that will allow residents to participate in the budget-making process.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:23 EST</pubDate>
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The race for the 23rd District seat in the House of Delegates definitely has been a spirited one, pitting incumbent Del. Shannon Valentine, a Democrat, against Republican challenger Scott Garrett.

Voters in the district, which includes the city of Lynchburg and the Madison Heights area of Amherst County, have received at least two misleading mailers from Garrett, pounding Valentine for her supposed tax-hike agenda.           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:28:48 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:55 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Central Virginia and Its High&#45;Tech Future</title>
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Change is a key characteristic of an economy, whether it&#8217;s global, national, state or local.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:47 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:47 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Ethics Code Unnecessary in Amherst?</title>
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A code of ethics? In Amherst County? You&#8217;ve got to be kidding. It would be way too intrusive and might even handcuff the members of the ruling body in the course of their handling the county&#8217;s affairs.           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:46 EST</pubDate>
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The surrender of a single shotgun to police won&#8217;t necessarily make the community a safer place. But the signal it sends to those who are working to get guns off the city streets is powerful.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:59:59 EST</pubDate>
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You might call what Cheryl Burnette does &#8220;nursing nurses.&#8221;
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          <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:45 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>With Culinary Arts, CVCC Meeting the Need</title>
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When a need arises in the community, leaders get together to find a way to meet the need. And that&#8217;s why construction of the culinary arts at Central Virginia Community College is about to begin.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>The Nobel for Good Intentions</title>
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Friday morning, there were probably more than a few Americans who, upon turning on the news when waking up, wondered if they were still in dreamland.           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:48:59 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Artist kicks off new LU gallery</title>
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There is an art to opening a successful gallery, and Todd Smith obviously did his homework.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Going Negative Always Wins, Right? Maybe Not</title>
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Might 2009 be the year voters get their fill of negative campaign ads and negative campaigns in general and say &#8220;Enough is enough&#8221;?           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:44 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>In Politics, Nothing is Beyond the Pale</title>
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Sometimes, the politics of politics is enough to make you sick to your stomach: the level of personal vitriol; the branding of one&#8217;s philosophical opponents as socialists, fascists or racists; the win-at-all-costs approach.           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:49 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Public School Needs Exceed State&#8217;s Resources</title>
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While the two candidates for governor battle it out on the campaign trail across Virginia, the needs of public education continue to spiral. The election&#8217;s winner will have his hands full meeting needs that have been neglected during the economic recession.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:45 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Football teams fueled by local effort</title>
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An army, they say, travels on its stomach. The same might also be said of a high school football team.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:57:13 EST</pubDate>
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With nearly 6,000 people losing their lives last year in traffic accidents connected to drivers texting or talking on cell phones, isn&#8217;t it about time that the federal government took some action? The states have been toying with restricting use of the devices, but the results have been mixed with only seven states banning hand-held cell phones and 18 making texting while driving illegal.           ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:14:47 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Efficiency Key to Spending Road Dollars</title>
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Does Washington want the states to spend transportation stimulus money as quickly as possible? Or as efficiently as possible? Quick seems to be the answer from Congress. Efficient is the answer from Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who happens to be right on this one.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:12:43 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:27:22 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>The importance of incentive</title>
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Random thoughts for a Monday &#8230;           ]]></description>
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Few people may have realized, but a new era dawned Thursday morning in Lynchburg, when a second Amtrak train to Washington, D.C., pulled out of the Kemper Street Station.
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