EDITORIAL: Buying Swampland: Behind All the Eye-Rolling in Botetourt County
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By The Roanoke Times, Va. May 31--Drivers who regularly negotiate the two, twisting lanes of pavement that are U.S. 220 north of Eagle Rock in Botetourt County must be sorely tempted to deride Virginia's transportation department.
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LE GRAND QUELEN, France  - Alain le Potier gazes across the wooded valley from his hilltop family farm in Brittany but, like many French farmers, his view is clouded by worries about the April-May presidential election.
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By EVADNA BARTLETT  Homeowners in an often-soaked Teays Valley subdivision worry that development of adjacent property will worsen their problems.   They laid out their concerns Tuesday before the Putnam County Commission.
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By The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Feb. 5--It's human nature to play for time when big issues need to be resolved. But big issues -- like eminent domain reform -- are what state lawmakers were elected to confront.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 21--Maybe it was all the effort focused on state park issues that sucked the wind out of the Texas Legislature's usual willingness to meddle with statutes governing hunting, fishing, boating and other outdoor recreation.
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By Mary Perez, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 8--ST. MARTIN -- By sharing 22 county-owned acres behind the community center, the Army National Guard, a fire department and a utility district can each build facilities that will benefit the entire community.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 20--PASCAGOULA -- Officials with Pascagoula and Jackson County were surprised and disappointed Tuesday when DuPont announced it had started a controversial chemical process before giving the public a chance to learn more about it.
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One Colorado county tries a novel capitalist approach to containing the spread of monster houses
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By JAMES MINTON  ST. FRANCISVILLE - The owners of four tracts for a proposed large- scale development near Lake Rosemound joined Thursday in a lawsuit attacking the project.  A hearing is scheduled Jan. 3 in the lawsuit that adjoining landowners James D. and Laurel B.
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Plans to develop Heart of the Triad acres will be met with enthusiasm by many landowners who find their property more valuable. For others, however, HOT looks like a threat to a traditional way of life.
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The mix of nude dancers, orange juice and black-and-white independent films wasn't in Bob Rieger's original business plan. But it has helped his Racehorses Gentlemen's Club survive amid the cornfields of McCook County and fend off a two-year barrage of challenges from politicians and outraged members of Citizens Against Nude Juicebars and Pornography.
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With agriculture running like a scalded bovine, DuPont offers a couple of lush opportunities.
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PONTIAC, Mich. -- Mike Bouchard was eager to make the sale as he bantered with Tracey Allen at a Labor Day street fair. Pitching his Republican candidacy for the U.S. Senate, the Oakland County sheriff heard her say she favored Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow.
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By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Sep. 7--BONNERS FERRY, Idaho -- In 1968, Jean Plato and her husband bought farmland along the banks of the Kootenai River.
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By Aliana Ramos, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 14--GEORGETOWN -- Control over water and sewer service in rural Georgetown County may be up for grabs.
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By Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 9--Rumblings a month ago made it clear that the proposed 1-cent (16.7%) sales tax increase for Okaloosa County was in trouble weeks before the referendum went before the voting public.
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By Tatiana Prophet, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Feb. 14--Fo r 1 1 c i t i e s i n S a n Bernardino County, the prospect of paying a surcharge for a chemical that did not originate in their areas just doesn't seem right.