The week’s most bizarre statement in a debate

Every televised political debate has one: the gaffe. Mostly viewers hold their breath while their candidate talks, hoping both that he won’t say something stupidly outrageous, while the other candidate does. …

The week’s most bizarre special effect in a debate

Usually, we can’t say enough good things about the color red. …

When chickens fly

Chicken parts flew the coop and dropped scattershot at an Eastern Shore horse farm, leaving it to the state Department of Environmental Quality to track their migratory pattern. …

Speaking of chickens

Roanoke Natural Foods Co-op is asking Roanoke City Council to sell it acreage, plus the barn previously used for the mounted police patrol, along Blue Hill Drive for $30,000. There, the co-op will plant row crops, gardens and orchards and also raise chickens for their eggs. The parcel off Challenger Avenue is near a golf course and industrial park and will not abut homes. Unlike the co-op’s proposal for Countryside, neighbors aren’t likely to squawk.

And of Hokies on Chicken Hill

We were unaware until hearing a story on WVTF Friday morning that the Marching Virginians are homeless, and always have been. That can change, though, with enough support. …

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