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Opinion

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• Map out protections before drilling
• Jefferson's broadside: Words worth repeating
• EPA needs help cleaning up Pentagon
• In Chesapeake dollars are 'saved,' but at the risk of lives
• The honor of naming names can be had for a price
• Portsmouth garbage plant cleans up its act
• There may be progress in Iraq, but there's still no plan
• Portsmouth jury sends message to street pushers

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News columnists

John Warren - Pilot Warrior

• Beach homeowner at his wit's end in battle with intrusive vultures
• Missing spillway gate leaves 'waterfront' residents high and dry
• Chesapeake to adjust signs along roadway's dangerous S-curve

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Joyce Hoffmann - Public editor

• Even with FOIA, access to records a struggle
• 'Pretty in pink' captured the spirit of homecomings
• Online 'marketplace of ideas’ can get surly

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OPINION COLUMNISTS

Kerry Dougherty

• College-bound kids and their parents have to keep pedaling
• Beach shooting was tragic, but justified under 2nd amendment
• Norfolk walking a fine line in rights of rapper cited for cursing
• Va. tomatoes will survive. Hey, they're no average guy
• ODU's acting president has the smarts for university's top job

More Kerry | Kerry's Blog

Roger Chesley

• Roll on Admobile, roll on
• Don't railroad the railroad
• Western Branch wants to belt you

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Donald Luzzatto

• Tiny robot has lessons for media - and citizens
• Thanks for the carbon purge, guys
• Cruising short of maximum potential

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Christina Nuckols

• Saslaw's plan for roads runs only one way
• Defections undermine Gilmore's claims
• Here a toll, there a toll, everywhere a ...

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Daryl Lease

• Google skullduggery, with a side of conspiracy
• Let's milk this redneck caricature for all we can
• Turning against the turncoat truth-teller

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Features columnist

Mike Gruss

• This guy enters more contests than anyone in Hampton Roads
• History pieced back together, photo by photo
• Time heals all wounds - or so they say

More Mike | Mike's Blog