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From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20050521
Author:Joe Kennedy [email protected] 981-3256

"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 ...

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