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Albemarle County's green roof attracts visitors
The Charlottesville area has many attractions, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
Rivera or Papelbon? Who would close for AL?
The opening question at the All-Star news conference was about the closer.
Government is the problem with health care
What can Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan teach us about how to deal with spiraling health care costs and millions of people having to go without health insurance coverage? A great deal actually if we will heed their wisdom on the proper role of government. Jefferson said "the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." Nearly two centuries later, Reagan said "government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Nowhere is the wisdom of these two men more relevant than on health care.
Historic political printing plates up for auction
As Americans watch history being made in this year's presidential race, researchers in New Hampshire have been examining a one-of-a-kind treasure of printing plates that gave earlier generations a front-row seat to political history.  Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.  Cocktail museum shakes and stirs historyIn New Orleans, cocktails are serious business. What better town for a temple to the tasty history of the American libation?
Walter E. Williams: Washington does not know better than we do
I have no idea of the number of traffic signals in our country, but whatever the number, how many of my fellow Americans would like the U.S. Congress to be in charge of their operation? Congress, or a committee it authorizes, would determine the length of time red stays red and green stays green and what hours of the day they can be flashing red.
Company hopes to brew up interest in hard cider
In early America, the undisputed beverage of choice was hard apple cider - even more so than water.
Monticello to take down its noted tulip poplar
One of Monticello's most famous trees will be taken down, after numerous efforts to save it have failed. |
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