STATE CAN LEAD ON MANY FRONTS

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 24, 1993                   TAG: 9301250268
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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STATE CAN LEAD ON MANY FRONTS
VIRGINIA'S enlightened plan to improve its educational infrastructure remains on track.
Now, with close advisement of its business community, Virginia should present its comprehensive agenda for leadership in state and cooperative infrastructure improvements for, inter alia, services, transportation (including high-speed rail), trade (imports and exports), communication, finance, training (computer, electronics and vocational), medicine, atomic research, defense, ecology, heritage and history, tourism, sports, energy, minerals, agriculture, husbandry, fishing, value-added manufacturing, and computer-software engineering.
Virginia can be very specific with respect to needed infrastructure additions, replacements, repair, maintenance, planning, engineering and improvements in roads, bridges, water supply and purification, sewage treatment, rails, ports (space, air and ship), computers and networks, meteorology and space systems, health care, training and retraining, crime prevention, parks, beautification, restoration, reforestation, wetlands reclamation and environmental engineering.
The new team in Washington may give Virginia a unique opportunity to continue its leadership in building for the 21st century - if it stands forward with a clear slate of actions, ways and means. WILSON F. ENGEL III NEWPORT NEWS

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB