ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, September 14, 1996 TAG: 9609160032
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-7 EDITION: METRO
VIRGINIA'S historical treasury has gotten richer with the uncovering of the ruins of James Fort in Jamestown, the first English settlement in the New World.
Archaeologists long believed all remnants of the fort, which dates to 1607, had been washed away by the James River. But archaeologist Bill Kelso, former high school history teacher, had a different idea and the courage to pursue it.
As thrilling as the discovery itself is the realization that - in these jaded, impatient times, when nothing under the sun seems new - one person still can buck the conventional wisdom and, by persistent effort, prove it wrong. And something very old is new again.
AND YOU thought the era of big government was over.
In attacking President Clinton for letting up on the war on drugs, Bob Dole has chosen to focus on a curious measure of government efficacy: the number of bureaucrats working in the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Dole cries that the president has "slashed the drug czar's office staff by more than 80 percent." Is the Republican suggesting that adding to the Washington payroll will help make the problem go away?
SPEAKING OF payroll: The head of maintenance at the Federal Reserve in Washington earns $163,800 a year, a congressional audit reports. No wonder the Fed is so worried about inflation.
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