Alane Miles

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Opinion: The Five Haunts of Richmond

Each year at the dawn of the season of spooky I find it cathartic to open my eyes to what’s really going on in...
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Opinion: The Overdoses — and Underdoses — of Managing Pain

In this heyday of pharmaceutical prowess, the measure of a fortunate life is a blissful ignorance of prescription drugs. People who are healthy enough...
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City of Splendor: It’s Richmond’s Scars That Make It Beautiful

A city’s pearls are its broken-down spots — its crumbling palaces, burned-out former glories, and chipped-paint behemoths. Show me a city with a bunch of...
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Birds and the Breeze: There’s No Place Like Richmond In the Spring

Richmond is a hothouse of mosquitoes in summer and ice slicks in winter. A haven of deep potholes and elaborately painted murals. River and...
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Remembrance: Rabbi Ben Romer, 1952-2016

Richmond lost one of its most visible activists for interfaith work Feb. 28 with the death of Ben Romer, former rabbi for Congregation Or...
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Opinion: In a Year Marked By Violence, the Holidays are Also a Time to Work Through Pain

Even without the nuclear-green glow of the Grinch, there’s something surreal about the holidays in America. The traffic, the constant lure to buy and...
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Opinion: Richmond’s Resources Are Great, But the Biggest Achievement Is Our Variety of Residents

Go to any financial planner and the first thing he or she will tell you is to look at your history of spending to...
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Low Bars

Opinion: We are the population in Richmond for whom the jail is terrifying because there is the fear: They will let me die there.
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The Color of Belonging

"We are always going to be the odd duck in any group. Dig deep enough and we will find something that makes us stand out, but standing out doesn’t mean we are alone."
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