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Michael Lee Pope

Stories by Michael Lee

Running for Second Term

With eight bills behind him, David Englin asks voters to send him back to Richmond.

Running for Second Term

Smoking Opinion

Attorney general’s legal opinion casts doubt over the city’s proposed smoking ban.

Smoking Opinion

Wireless Unplugged

City officials shut down free wireless service to avoid a fight with the FCC.

In the old days, investigators could wiretap telephone lines by placing an alligator clip on a copper wire.

Demanding Better Budgets

School Board rejects budget document, calls for comprehensive audit.

Demanding Better Budgets

The Adventures of Roger Fons

Old Town Theater owner’s life could be a motion picture.

The setting is an old vaudeville theater on King Street, and the star of the show is Roger Fons. Our camera begins a slow advance, moving toward the oversized marquee with a sense of imminent arrival. Cue the music, “Un bel dì vedremo” from “Madame Butterfly.” Fons sits on a barstool in front of the theater smoking a cigarette, its wafts of white ribbons swirling toward the sky. He is charming and effervescent as patrons, employees and strangers greet him.

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