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The local attorney who helped orchestrate the turning of Grayson County from a blue county to a red one died of a heart attack on Friday, at the age of 62.
Clyde Siebman was a fixture in the both Grayson County s legal community and Republican Party, who ran the party for 10 years before retiring as party chair in 2008. In addition to helping local Republicans get elected to office and spearheading his own firm of Siebman, Forrest, Burg & Smith.
He was also involved in a number of local community organizations and committees. Clyde was passionate about everything he did. I have never known anyone who worked harder. He loved his family, his community, the practice of law, politics, and above all, he loved helping other people, former Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown in a social media statement.
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Today, in Richmond, “transit” means the bus. One might think that the city which debuted the world’s first electric streetcar would have bucked the trend against transit after World War II. But rather than preserving its historic transportation system, the city literally burned it, and the local transit network has never entirely rebounded.
On November 25, 1949 city officials hosted a formal celebration to torch its trolleys and usher in a new era of modern transit based on the bus. Despite the switch from rails to wheels (or perhaps because of it), the Virginia Transit Company (VTC) Richmond’s premier choice to get around town since 1860 remained unprofitable for decades.
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