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/ Mark Savage climbed in and put the pedal to the metal at the Rusty Wallace Racing Experience during a recent visit to the Milwaukee Mile racetrack. The guttural roar of a stock car engine and the resulting vibration transmitted through the seat of my racing jumpsuit as I approach turn one at the Milwaukee Mile nearly makes me feel as if I’ll pass out. I feel woozy in a way I’m unfamiliar with. It’s not fear, it’s not noxious fumes. I don’t feel sick, it’s just the rumble that shakes my innards and maybe my brain stem a little that gets my attention. A person needs to pay attent...

The McGrath homestead in Northfield, Vermont. Submitted by Martha Lang, Burlington, VT My family never celebrated St. Patrick’s Day at our house. When I got older and realized how Irish I was, I asked my mother why. She said she did not approve of all the drinking and she wanted her children to identify with their English background. Also, my father’s Protestant relatives from Boston were very prejudiced against Irish Catholics; they had a false sense of superiority because their ancestors had settled in Massachusetts starting in 1629. To avoid fights, my mother...

Several Groups File Briefs to Support Lee Statue Removal Fencing was put up around the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond's Monument Avenue in January in preparation for its planned removal. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Richmond residents who are for and against the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue are gearing up for oral arguments at the Virginia Supreme Court as soon as this summer. Attorney General Mark Herring filed a brief Monday asking the court to dissolve a restraining order that’s preventing the state from taking down the monument. Several amicus briefs we...

FRANK GREEN Richmond Times-Dispatch Thursday’s ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court in a Charlottesville Confederate statues case does not bode well for an attempt to restore monuments removed in Richmond last year, says a lawyer representing Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney. A lawyer representing the plaintiffs who want to have the monuments that were removed by the city of Richmond put back disagrees. The justices held Thursday that a 1997 amendment to state law preventing localities from removing war monuments could not be applied retroactively — overturning a circuit cour...

A fence enclosing the circle around the Lee Monument in Richmond was installed Monday as part of the Virginia Department of General Services' plan to remove the statue. The department