The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA

What's in a Name? | N.C.

The tale that named Nags Head has it all: pirates, tall ships, the new world and a lawless sea. As they carved their living from a scrubby and barren landscape, the story goes, locals along the North Carolina waterfront turned to the ships sailing off their coast. At night, they would tie a lantern around an old horse's neck and walk the nag up and down the sand dunes.

Deaf. Driven to Serve. Will Army Hear Plea?

By Julie Watson The Associated Press

Beach Can Do Better for Its Homeless Than 'Tent City' Plan

TENTS WORK just fine - for Boy Scouts on weekend camping trips. As the primary shelter for homeless people living in the woods? Not really.

U.Va. Names Duke Official As New Academic Chief

RICHMOND The University of Virginia has named Duke University's vice provost for academic affairs its new executive vice president and provost.

A Different Evangelical Legacy

BEFORE Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson or Michele Bachmann, there was Mark Hatfield. Except most Americans probably know little about the late Oregon senator's brand of evangelicalism. He didn't shout it from every corner, either to run down opponents or rack up votes. But Hatfield was evangelical before evangelicalism was cool. He was weaving his faith and politics before Jimmy Carter explained how his belief in Christ informed his views. Hatfield's quiet legacy is worth considering as another ...

Bulldog Approach to Raising Revenue

EVERY MILLION dollars in uncollected annual taxes in a city like Norfolk means that honest citizens have to pay an extra $5 a year. Or more. So it's no small thing that two of the city's constitutional officers think they've found new ways to collect taxes that people owe. But one question: What took them so long?

Your Views

Progress on BPOL reform RE "BE SMART about business tax," editorial, Aug. 16: You can count on the Retail Alliance and the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce to understand that any reform of the Business, Professional and Occupation License (BPOL) tax must be revenue neutral.

Cancellations&Changes

Cancellations The following are canceled because of the effects of Hurricane Irene. Go to PilotOnline.com for updates.

Hurricane Irene: Luck and Lessons

SOUTH HAMPTON Roads awoke Sunday to sunshine, a nice breeze and yards carpeted with tree branches. Power was out in much of the region; red flags flew at beach lifeguard stations; a makeshift memorial marked the place where a falling tree killed an 11-year- old Newport News boy. But the day after Hurricane Irene meandered through the Outer Banks and soaked the East Coast, life here was extraordinary in its ordinariness.

Family, Neighbors Mourn Irene's Only Fatality in Hampton Roads

By Bill Sizemore The Virginian-Pilot

Maybe Tomorrow? Maybe the Dawn of a New Day

By Louis Hansen The Virginian-Pilot

Did Irene's 10-15 Inches Put Out the Swamp Fire? No.

By Veronica Gonzalez | The Virginian-Pilot

Town at Epicenter of Quake Exhales As Irene Passes

By Allen G. Breed The Associated Press

The View From 500 Feet: Back to Work for Hampton Roads

When the winds died and the rain stopped and high tide passed for the second time, the people of Hampton Roads went back to work. It was a sunny, cloudless day, and now that the 500-mile-wide Hurricane Irene had dragged past, the rest of the weekend could not be wasted. Too much time had been spent already. People had used Thursday and Friday and most of Saturday preparing for the storm, moving trash cans, lifting furniture from low-lying rooms, and picking up potential backyard projectiles.

This Week's Crime

City Norfolk Offense Robbery

School Choice in Colorado

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. THE RED STONE outcropping that gives this community its name is just a facet of the histrionic geology of Douglas County that sprawls prettily along the front range of the Rockies south of Denver. The county is named, Lord knows why, for Stephen Douglas, who defeated Abraham Lincoln in Illinois' 1858 U.S. Senate election.

Standing Up to Bullies

I AM PLEASED to report the sighting of an artifact so rarely seen among Democrats that it has become the stuff of legend and conjecture, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. It is called a spine. Said spine was briefly glimpsed a little over a week ago at a "jobs summit" in Inglewood, Calif., in the person of Rep. Maxine Waters. "I'm not afraid of anybody," the California Democrat said. "... And as far as I'm concerned, the 'tea party' can go straight to hell."

Reunions

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