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-Chief Monroe- Degree policy changes at VCU
Redevelopment on the Boulevard: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 2.5 
Treating cities as ‘precious heirlooms’ 
-The Downtown Plan: And Now a Word from Charleston 
Homeless In Richmond
Missing billion: how UVA's investment strategy worked... until it didn't
Second Family Affected By Burial Mistake
RPS to implement Open Enrollment
More students eating breakfast at school
A year after Crupi report, what has changed?: Leadership changes and financial crisis hamper regional plan 
-See Buttermilk & Molasses: The Crupi Reports (1992 and 2007)
Give Richmond a present! Buy LOCAL!
-Fountain Bookstore
WTVR6 to cover Vanishing Virginia- tonight and tomorrow  
Do blacks hate gays?  
Cuts in GRTC bus routes on table tonight...Rewind: Save Westhampton 16
Hard Times:
-Tough times will touch Richmond | Economy front and center at Public Square forum tonight 
-MeadWestvaco closing packaging plant in NC 
-Talent pool is deep, but who can afford to plunge in?  
-Green jobs are a hot topic of discussion, especially in the renewable energy sector
-Special Report: Circuit City Hope
 
Hard Times in Hampton Roads: Hampton Roads banks start to feel the pain of bad loans | Office space continues to build up as demand teeters
Local Papers Report More Anti-Obama Incidents From Maine to California  
A Brit campaigning for Barack in Richmond 
It's a madhouse outside the gun shops, too 
Obama's picks may shift 4th Circuit 
Don't wait for Obama, your country needs you 
Our New Pop Culture Icons
New database makes lobbying a bit more transparent | Roanoke Times 
-VPAP | VPAP Featuring Lobbyist Disclosures 

The Prevail Archive The Prevail Archive is a volunteer Virginia Tech student effort to make internal documents relating to the events of April 16 at Virginia Tech publicly accessible.
Cantor says GOP is no longer 'relevant'
  
Election sends GOP wake-up call on minority vote ...GOP back to square one with Hispanics 
A bipartisan Washington begins with Obama's judicial appointments
Faces of power in Va.: Corporate boardroom diversity is 'moving slowly, but moving,' one director says...At Virginia’s biggest companies, who sits at the table? 
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. 
Socrates

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell

Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt 

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt 

I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find. 
The Shins

It feel like VA, or the Bay, or Ye Ayy, this is the good life (Welcome to the good life)
Kanye


Wolf Boy's Hope
Lost, found and lost again: adopted dog up to his old tricks
Robot Hearts: His Best Friend’s Girl and Her Deadbeat Valentine New RVANews Dating Column featuring Jack Goes Forth and Susan Howson
-Robot Hearts Begins 
-So, a Bartender Walked into a Relationship Column... 
Drinking survey reveals habits (do not usually affect their academics)
The Capshaw Divestiture of Charlottesville Restaurants Imminent? (Blue Light Grill, Enoteca, Mas, Mono Loco, Ten and Three Notch’d)
Message to Westhampton Pastry Shop: Please open earlier
ATO Records signs Paul McCartney
Local flick beat Bond, James Bond
Does paying $20 for a bottle of wine make sense in today’s economy?
Spice up your Thanksgiving (and ease the pain a little) with champagne cocktails
The recession special
Chesterfield is for Hummus 
-Sabra Dipping Co
Former Spider to return to space
Memories of Western Sizzlin
Richmond Cultural Census Results
 
Commentary:  
-Cultural Plan: Beware of Data Paralysis...Cultural Plan: Will We Finally Turn a Corner?
-Culture in Richmond: A Progress Report
-Coming Monday, a Report from the Culture Club (Richmond Region Cultural Action Plan)

Schlitz comes to Hampton Roads with a fresh brew 
Brainworms: "Let Be Honest"
The Kanawha Canal is a fine place to fish  
A week after rescue, sailboat runs aground at Hatteras 
The Bopst Show XXX
Wasting away again in Biscuitville... 
Deer takes a tour of Richmond Fan District | CODE RED! DEER ON THE LOOSE IN THE FAN!  

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The 2008 Big Events

Jan 4-6 The Nation’s Outdoor Sportsmen’s Show Chantilly, VA

Jan 11-13 4th Annual MAC Events Boat Show Greater Richmond Convention Center

Jan 11-13 7th Annual Virginia Golf Show Richmond Raceway Complex

Apr 5 Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10K Challenge

Apr 19-20 The Virginia Fly Fishing Festival Waynesboro, VA

Apr 25-May 4 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Winchester, VA 

Apr 26-27 National Duathlon Festival 

May 16-18 Appalachian Trail Days Damascus, VA

Jun 20-25 Bike Virginia 21st Annual

Jul 13 Land Rover Muddy Buddy Ride and Run series Pocahontas State Park

Jul 24-27, 2007 FloydFest Floyd, VA

Nov 15 SunTrust Richmond Marathon

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    -    List of API "Crisis Summit" Attendees     (Locals: Michael G. Abernathy, president Landmark Community Newspapers, Reid Ashe, EVP, COO Media General, Robert Dickey, president U.S. community publishing, Gannett, Maurice Jones, publisher, The Virginian-Pilot, Michelle Krans, SVP, strategy, development, Gannett, Thomas McDevitt, president The Washington Times, Thomas Silvestri, president and publisher Richmond Times-Dispatch)  
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    Cowabunga! Local firm gets Ninja Turtles site 
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    -Velocity Micro
    Why Yahoo Still Matters for You
    A Computing Pioneer Has a New Idea 
    Motrin learns there's a downside to viral advertising
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    Like a virgin? How cops pose as kids to catch Internet pervs 
    Arrest made in slayings of elderly sisters in North Carolina
    Michael Vick's cousin may face prison for violating probation
    Defense cross-examines key witness in Mormon missionary shooting trial
    Police investigate 9 break-ins in same Newport News neighborhood
    New Police Chief: Martial Arts is Key
    Norwood vows to work towards city success
    Tyler Binsted Case
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    -    Rewind: Shooting
    Promise To Curb Violence At Armstrong HS
    Va. judge refuses to throw out Ben Fawley sentence (Taylor Behl) | AP/Daily Press | Times Dispatch | WRVA 
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