2009.01.08
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Showdown over campaign donations
Brian Moran knows he's outgunned in the Democratic primary, so he's trying to disarm his opponents.
Chris OBrion | The Roanoke Times
The year is 1880 and Quickdraw Moran is the fastest gun for a hundred miles. When challengers show up, Quickdraw sends them running home or worse. He has respect, power and limitless horizons.
Then, one day, Billy the Kid rides into town. Quickdraw might have the fastest gun around those parts, but Billy, well he has the fastest gun in the West, and he calls Quickdraw out.
On the dusty street through town, a few minutes before high noon, Quickdraw looks for a way out. Squinting at the Kid, he pitches an idea, "We don't need to duel with guns, do we? How about knives?"
Airing Roanoke's business
City council is looking at ways to bring its informal sessions into Roanoke homes.
By the time Roanoke residents tuned in Monday to watch city council slog through its agenda, the mayor and council members already had clocked five hours of productive labor. Unless you were one of the dozen or so members of the public to snag a chair in the basement briefing room, you missed it.
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