Regarding your recent article, "Nobody's Problem," like Mr. Turberville's, our neighborhood -- just a few blocks away -- is at the start of the same kind of vacant home mess. Great neighbors were more or less forced out of their meticulously-tended home due to the financial debacle of a number of banks. Sadly, this small showplace now looks exactly like nobody cares because it has joined the ranks of "Nobody's Problem." This is a very false, though catchy name. This is everybody's problem. When the undesirables pass by these homes, it is an open invitation to vandalism at the least. ...more

October 28, 2009

Whether it's the shiny new convention center or the historical Union Station in the nation's capital, the locations of some official inaugural balls Jan. 20 will give bragging rights to the states chosen for those venues. But for Florida, Texas and nine other Southern states, Barack Obama's presidential inauguration committee has selected a ball site with a more earthy pedigree: D.C.'s National Guard armory. ...more

January 7, 2009

Pam Moody has assembled a colorful palette of local artists to display and sell their works at The Creative Native Gallery. ...more

May 2, 2008

Ever drive through a city and get the feeling upon entering the city limits that citizens there value beauty and serenity? ...more

October 25, 2007