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Vance: Recognition is the Foundation for Dialogue
By Roger Vance I am glad the silence is in fact not deafening and that my January View From the Gap has prompted much dialogue and discussion in this newspaper and elsewhere. The confluence of recent...
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Vance: Diamonds in the Rough
By Roger Vance Sometimes we see liabilities when in fact we are looking at real assets. We see something that is old and perhaps worn around the edges as old-fashioned, out of step, not up to snuff,...
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Vance: A Call for Rural Renewal
By Roger Vance Loudoun County is approaching a fork in the road. The path we choose to follow, as we near the end of the second decade of the 21stcentury, will determine the future that awaits...
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Vance: Future-Making History
A View from the Gap By Roger Vance We are making history on July 1 in Hillsboro. We are also making our future. And that is something to celebrate indeed. But more than that, as we celebrate our...
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Vance: If Not Now, When?
A View from the Gap By Roger Vance With the dawn of each day we are all offered a fresh opportunity to chart our course, another shot to exercise our will, to reset and reshape our future. Just as...
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Vance: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
A View from the Gap By Roger Vance An important story is being written that could have profound impacts on our region’s health and quality of life. Ultimately, the authors of this story are primarily...
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Vance: Thankful and Ever Hopeful
A View from the Gap By Roger Vance The mere fact that a day after a big snowstorm–with roadways still dicey—some 350 people turned out for a “Rural Summit” hosted by Board of Supervisors Chair Phyllis...
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Vance: How Everything and Anything is Possible in the New Year
By Roger Vance Traveling from vision to reality can be a long and arduous journey, as if on an unmarked road with impossibly steep grades, blind curves, roadblocks and dead ends. However, when vision...
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Vance: Virginia, Let’s Talk
By Roger Vance Yes Virginia, recent events make it clear we really need to talk. It’s time to talk straight about our unvarnished history, time to talk about recognition of that history and its...
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Vance: Time to Challenge
By Roger Vance An opportunity to shape the future is a rare one and when presented with that opportunity, bold leadership is required. We have arrived at such a time today in Loudoun. Will we rise to...
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Vance: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
A View from the Gap By Roger Vance An important story is being written that could have profound impacts on our region’s health and quality of life. Ultimately, the authors of this story are primarily...
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Vance: Thankful and Ever Hopeful
A View from the Gap By Roger Vance The mere fact that a day after a big snowstorm–with roadways still dicey—some 350 people turned out for a “Rural Summit” hosted by Board of Supervisors Chair Phyllis...
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Vance: How Everything and Anything is Possible in the New Year
By Roger Vance Traveling from vision to reality can be a long and arduous journey, as if on an unmarked road with impossibly steep grades, blind curves, roadblocks and dead ends. However, when vision...
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Vance: Virginia, Let’s Talk
By Roger Vance Yes Virginia, recent events make it clear we really need to talk. It’s time to talk straight about our unvarnished history, time to talk about recognition of that history and its...
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Vance: Time to Challenge
By Roger Vance An opportunity to shape the future is a rare one and when presented with that opportunity, bold leadership is required. We have arrived at such a time today in Loudoun. Will we rise to...
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