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iNot surprisingly, me Attorney General’s office appeared to have no knowledge of any VDOT memo concerning a ban on the dissemination of value engineering studies. The Attorney General is not included on the distribution list for the memo, a list, by the way, of 45 high-ranking employees of the Virginia Dept, of Transportation. Mr. Ken Phillips is not on the list, either.
The Rappahannock News, faced with an affirmative statement from the “Friends of Old 211,” and with nothing more than evasive comments from one VDOT employee and honest ignorance of the matter on the part of the Attorney General’s office, chose to take the position that the Virginia Dept, of Transportation had not issued an interoffice memorandum prohibiting the dissemination of value engineering studies.
Dismissing the report from “Friends of Old 211” as a mere “claim,” and elevating Mr. Phillips’ shaky inferences to the status of irrefutable evidence, the paper took the plunge from objective to partisan reporting. We expect, and generally get, better than that from the Rappahannock News.
The Value Engineering Study of particular interest to “Friends of Old 211” is the one which concludes that the expense of four-laning Rt. 211 between Washington and Sperry
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