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Article: OBJECTION! HAMPTON ROADS' REAL PROBLEM IS THAT THERE IS NO HAMPTON ROADS.(LOCAL)(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 11, 2001
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Once again, The Virginian-Pilot climbs into the pulpit to preach the familiar text: Hampton Roads' problems are primarily the result of too few high-paying jobs; too little cooperation among feuding municipalities; unmanaged growth; not enough money for schools; too few highways and not enough mass transit; too much control and not enough revenue from Richmond, etc.
To borrow a phrase from Oliver Cromwell's letter to the elders of the Scottish Presbyterian Church, ``I beseech you, by the bowels of Christ, to consider that you may be mistaken.''
What's really the matter with Hampton Roads is that it is a figment of the overactive imaginations of the dreamers and ...