In recent issues, we’ve touched on how our neighborhood developed from colonial farmlands to the modern community it is today. This week, we’re going to focus
By Ray Cox
Special to The Roanoke Times
Humble self-reflection is said to be in decline, so it is with all humility we begin todayâs dispatch with a confession.
Sin seems to have occurred in this space.
In journalism, the sort of malfeasance the following admission addresses hovers under a damning rubric called âburying the lead.â
Sweeping the jargon into a dustbin, what that means is to begin a report with information of secondary importance and thus unforgivably postpone delivery of more essential news.
Before we finally allow late Roanoke County horseman and promoter Yelverton Neal Oliver to rest in peace after a series of semi-biographical columns, it must be conceded that he has not been afforded the respect he is due.