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After hearing conflicting reports from neighbors, Bedford County Board of Zoning Appeals decided Thursday night to approve a special exception for a cabinet shop at 164 Big Springs Road. Ken Remfert has an existing cabinet shop but wanted to move it to a building he has purchased nearby. ... .
Unlikely allies fight same-sex marriage in Iowa
Because Iowa doesn't have a residency requirement, Hurley believes same-sex couples from out of state will marry here, then sue their home states for recognition. The court likely will not rule until 2009. But Ratliff and Hurley say it's imprudent to wait.
So do 45 of Iowa's 100 state representatives, who are co-sponsoring legislation on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. When surveyed on how they would vote, the Iowa House of Representatives was split 50-50. This will be a critical week because legislation concerning the constitutional amendment must make it out of committee by Thursday or the bill won't be voted on this session. Ratliff and Hurley have been two of the loudest voices in this legislative and cultural fight, organizing rallies against same-sex marriage and lobbying the Legislature to let Iowans vote on its legality.
Discussion with Derek Scott and Bill Rammell
Maybe we'll invite you back next Sunday to see how your post bag has changed over the course of the past week. Both of you thank you very much for being with us. Please note BBC Politics Show must be credited if any part of these transcripts are used. NB:These transcripts were typed from a recording and not copied from original scripts. Because of the possibility of mis-hearing and the difficulty, in some cases, of identifying individual speakers, the BBC cannot vouch for their accuracy. Let us know what you think. The Politics Show Sunday 02 March 2008 at 12:00 GMT on BBC One. .
XC70 Volvo 'more macho'
Nothing says "you've had a few children, stopped having sex, given up on life and traded in the spicy coupe" as much as a big old family station wagon. In the past, station wagons were basically a sedan with an annexe out the back to shove luggage, the children's toys, the dog and the mother-in-law. I'm kidding . . . it would be a bit mean to shove Fido in the back. Today's station wagon has been reinvented with snappier silhouettes that curve like a coupe, have shorter overhangs and snazzy names like Sportwagon. The Volvo XC70 is a toughened all-wheel-drive version of its big, lumbering V70 wagon and now the updated model comes with a few new styling cues that make it more macho. Despite the Volvo badge, this wagon certainly doesn't say: "I've given up on sex." Even so, the new model is a family wagon with several safety and family-friendly features such as world-first two-stage integrated child booster seats in the rear, extended rear curtain airbags, stronger side structures, two-stage airbags, seatbelt pretensioners, improved crumple zones, rear parking alerts, a stack of advanced electronic driver aids, whiplash protection etc.
Slideshow: Vandals sought for spray painting racist graffiti
Police are on the hunt for whoever sprayed racist graffiti all over a Chesapeake neighborhood. Chesapeake Police say someone spray-painted at least 9 vehicles and a house in Dock Landing Meadows and Forest Hills with racist graffiti Sunday. Police say there were also some initials they don't know the meaning of and a few vehicles were reportedly splashed with some type of chemical causing the paint to crackle. Pam Burnell says her husband put a lot of work into restoring his 1987 Suburban, all to have someone destroy the paint job in matter of a few seconds. "It's a sick, sad world that does this," said Burnell. "I just hate it because we're the ones who are going have to deal with it. What they put on there is just so unbelievably disgusting to have to deal with that it's so aggravating and so upsetting." Around the corner, the vandals used a garage door as a billboard.
Sylvie Guillem stretches herself for Push
Maybe that is why their programme is called Push. Created in 2005, it comes to the Coliseum for its fourth London run this spring. It’s a rare occurrence when contemporary dance performed by just two people sells out houses. But the seamless, mesmerising quality of Maliphant’s choreography, combined with the world’s most exciting ballerina, is an astonishing experience. Guillem becomes a lanky boy-girl, enclosed in sculpted light and punctuating her liquid moves with sudden sharpness, like exclamation marks. Or she is half woman, half dragonfly, arms windmilling in a strobo-scopic crescendo. This is dance of unique achievement, fusing bold radicalism with total accessibility and leaving you wanting more. Push, like Sacred Monsters, Guillem’s collaboration with the Kathak dancer Akram Khan, has toured widely here and abroad.
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