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February 28, 2008

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The little train museum that hasn't
The Virginia Museum of Transportation is heading the way of abandoned lines. The nonprofit board needs to steer a different course.
A graveyard for forgotten railcars -- that could be the fate of The Virginia Museum of Transportation, if its board fails to capture the imagination, enthusiasm and cash from more than parents of tiny tots and old railroaders.
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Daisy chain decisions
Roanoke's mayor needs to learn that communication is a two-way street.
Mayor Nelson Harris chatted privately with his buddies on city council and decided it's a bad idea to turn one-way Church Avenue into a two-way street. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. No one will ever know now, because Harris has cut off debate.
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