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Article: STADIUM NEEDN'T BUST BUDGET
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- May 21, 2005
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"Sin has many tools," wrote American physician and writer Oliver
Wendell Holmes, "but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
Welcome to the Truth Squad.
Today we examine a statement by Roanoke City Councilman Brian
Wishneff.
Wishneff rode into office on a wave of support from people who
want to renovate Victory Stadium, age 63, in South Roanoke. His
campaign was a flood of nostalgia and meanness, as dirty as the
Roanoke River when it immersed the stadium's turf - again - last
fall.
In early April, the Stadium Study Committee, created at Wishneff's
request by the Roanoke City Council, voted 10-4 that the structure be
razed and replaced with a new, 15,000-seat facility in the same area.
The ...