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Street Renaming Issue About ‘Who We Honor’

Published on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 12:00am

April 21, 2021 Editor, The News-Gazette:

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Group’s Version Of Lee Not ‘Persuasive’

Published on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 12:00am

April 23, 2021

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An Open Letter to Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge County residents:

Published on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 12:00am

A few years ago, it became obvious that there were efforts to change the name of Washington and Lee University, dropping Robert E. Lee’s name and, as some suggested, also to eliminate honoring George Washington as part of the name.

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Choose To Refuse Single-Use Plastics

Published on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 12:00am

Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment in a series of articles on the issue of plastics written by Melody Tennant and Bonnie Bernstein.

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Going Back To 1787

Published on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 12:00am

Editor’s note: The following story was written by Erica Turman for W&L and featured on the school’s website last month.

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The Right Person To Lead VMI

Published on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 12:00am

Welcome news was reported out of Virginia Military Institute the other day, and we’re not talking about the nationally ranked football team’s remarkable success in winning the Southern Conference championship to earn its first-ever invitation to the FCS playoffs. We’re referring, instead, to the board of visitors’ unanimous vote to remove the “interim” title from Superintendent Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins.

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End Of The Curse

Published on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 12:00am

In the second season opener of “The Golden Girls,” Blanche Devereaux, the most vain roommate of the quartet of women of a certain age at the house on Richmond Street in Miami, Florida, learns that she is entering menopause. She thinks that it signals the end of her attractiveness to men, which has always been important to her. Even when a psychiatrist tells her that she is going through a biological change that means one thing only - she can no longer have children - she is convinced her life is over.