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          <title>Letters to the Editor &#45; Oct. 8, 2008</title>
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          <title>Editorial: Group homes not answer at CTVC</title>
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While the debate over the future of large state institutions continues across the nation, a microcosm of that discussion has developed at the Central Virginia Training Center in Madison Heights.


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          <title>Editorial: Hard decisions ahead for state</title>
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The old adage &#8220;If it&#8217;s not raining, it&#8217;s pouring&#8221; fits perfectly for the budget crisis Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and leaders of the General Assembly face.


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          <title>Editorial: Lower drinking age is just dumb</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:06:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:06:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Editorial: Election should focus on issues</title>
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The 2008 presidential election season has been historic. Never before has a black American candidate and a woman sparred so intensely over the Democratic nomination with the black American winning and being nominated to head the Democratic ticket.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:46:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Editorial: State&#8217;s budgetary woes hit localities</title>
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Lynchburg&#8217;s refund to the state in lieu of cuts in state services comes as the latest blow to Virginia&#8217;s financially stressed localities. While the move was prompted in part by deep cuts to the state budget, it should also alert legislators again that the state is failing to provide for its share of local services.


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          <title>Letters to the Editor &#45; August 27, 2008</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Editorial: Questions linger about biosolids</title>
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Nutri-Blend, the biosolids company that hauls treated sewage sludge to farmlands, finally got its way last week in Campbell County. The firm delivered the first of some 1,400 tons of sludge from a Washington, D.C., wastewater treatment plant.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Editorial: Nation needs a broadband policy</title>
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There are going to be a lot of things on the plate of whomever is elected president in November: Iraq, Afghanistan, energy, terrorism, climate change, national economic revitalization &#8230; the list could just go on forever.


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          <title>Letters to the Editor &#45; August 13, 2008</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Editorial: Seeking justice for Sanchez Taylor</title>
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More than three years ago, on June 16, 2005, Sanchez Jarkel Taylor died while in the custody of five Amherst County sheriff&#8217;s deputies, a death ruled a homicide by the medical examiner.


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          <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Letters to the editor for the week of July 31, 2008</title>
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          <title>Lower speeds will make Va. 151 safer</title>
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The wheels of government can be slow, but rarely as slow as the effort to reduce the speed limit on portions of Virginia 151 in Nelson County.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:06:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:29:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:28:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:46:00 EDT</pubDate>
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My concern is the increased tractor trailer traffic on Elon Rd., Virginia 130. As anyone who uses this road can see, the truck traffic has quadrupled or more since the new U.S. 29 bypass opened.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Amherst County Planning Commission has begun work on re-writing portions of the zoning and subdivision ordinance and would like to invite all citizens interested in planning for the future of Amherst County to attend the meetings.&nbsp; 
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