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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The plan for an expanded light rail might be dead, but the money spent on it continues to haunt the City of Virginia Beach. The city purchased a 10 mile right-of-way from Norfolk Southern for $40 million. Half of that came...

<p>Pick a spot on the map in the United States and you’re likely to come away fairly disappointed at that city’s ability to do anything sustainable with its trash. Take arguably the country’s most progressive city, San Francisco, which has set...

Three poets (Dan Chelotti, Amanda Nadelberg, and Rosalie Moffett) were asked to describe their AWP experiences in journal form. The result is as follows. Wednesday, February 26 Moffett 4:00 AM: I dream that I am in gridlock freeway traffic—like, mass...

We made it to Bangkok! See our full program in the previous post – 3 weeks in Thailand. Long Travel Day Whew, that was a long and exhausting travel day. These long travel days feel longer and longer as I get older. My bad knee was all stiff by the...

I miss the pungent aroma of the city streets in the early spring after a rain, from the time when I was really young. Maybe I was closer to the ground back then, but it doesn’t seem the same these days. The air then was sweet with anticipation. The trickling...