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What's your take on the Elmwood Park amphitheater project, now that Roanoke City Council has removed it from its scheduled capital projects ? Update (Aug. 3, 2009): Roanoke City Council has voted to revisit the amphitheater issue. What's your take?
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Members of the Roanoke City Council confirmed Thursday that they have been actively discussing City Manager Darlene Burcham's future and could come to a decision as early as Monday during the next council meeting. [ related story ] The council is scheduled to hold a closed session to conduct Burcham's...
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Under a plea agreement approved by Judge Robert “Pat” Doherty, Former Roanoke City Council member Alfred Dowe pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of obtaining money by false pretenses as part of a double-billing scandal that forced him to resign from the council last February. Dowe...
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Friction appears to be growing over Mayor Bowers' role, perks and expectations among the members of the Roanoke City Council. From today's story : In July, Roanoke Mayor David Bowers and a newly seated city council pledged to work together and avoid the polarized politics that had characterized...
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Roanoke City Council is scheduled to discuss its proposed budget at a public hearing Monday, April 20. What's your take on the city's budget? What would you change, if given the opportunity? What would you suggest?
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City Council members have prosposed building amphitheaters at Elmwood Park and Reserve Avenue in Roanoke. The council voted in 2007 to go with the Reserve Avenue site, but reconsidered in September and asked a Charlottesville-based company to include the Elmwood Park location in a study of amphitheater...
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What do you think about Roanoke City Council's plans to fill the seat vacated by Alvin Nash?
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No! No! No! - No Consensus Allowed Roanoke isn't about consensus and progress. It's about political entertainment. I've only been back in the area for three years and I really enjoy the squabbling, name calling, posturing, and general political indecisiveness that you produce. And thankfully...
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What's your take on plans for the Roanoke City Market Building ? [Update 02/03/09: A Washingon, D.C.-based architectural firm met with food court vendors and retailers to talk about possibilities for the building's future.]
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What do you think about Vice Mayor Sherman Lea’s decision to refrain from leading the city council invocation because of a complaint about referring to God's son?
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