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Article: WE NEED A LIBERAL DOSE OF COMMON SENSE, OK?(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 12, 2004
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Byline: Kerry Dougherty
What was that Jim Spore was saying the other day?
Something about common sense?
"It's an unconscionable decision that needs to be overturned," railed the Virginia Beach city manager on Monday. "Somebody up there needs to get some common sense."
In case you missed it, Spore was griping about a lack of good, old-fashioned common sense in Washington.
His remarks were the result of the Bush administration's decision not to allocate any more money to put sand back on the nation's beaches. Seems someone in the White House believes that pumping sand onto the beach makes as much sense as, well, pumping sand ...