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

DATE: SATURDAY, August 20, 1994                   TAG: 9408230019
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY PUT ...

THE PROPOSED railside park in downtown Roanoke, connecting the City Market with an upgraded Virginia Museum of Transportation, is an intriguing idea still in the formulating stage.

But one thing now appears settled: the Walt Disney Co.'s role, or lack thereof, in planning the park. Apart from the attendance as an invited guest of a public-relations executive at a brainstorming session this week, it seems, Disney's role is zilch.

Roanokers had been in suspense. Mayor David Bowers said last week that he understood that Disney would be a facilitator for the brainstorming session. Patrick McMahon, Virginia's state tourism director, said no, his office would facilitate it. For a while there, it looked as if Roanoke might need a facilitator to facilitate the facilitators.

WHO WILL be the first of Virginia's four U.S. Senate candidates to ``go negative'' with TV commercials? Who will be last? Or will the foursome get in the HOV lane and go down that road together?

Asked recently to speculate on the matter, Bert Rohrer, spokesman for the incumbent senator, Democrat Charles Robb, said, ``I think too much remains to be seen.''

What he may have meant was ``no comment.'' But for Virginians who expect that mud will be slung all over the commonwealth's map before Election Day, we'd speculate that Rohrer said a mouthful.

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