Included in the spectrum from chef Geoff Bragg: steak au poivre; Belgian waffles; breakfast plates of eggs/toast/grits; ham, egg and Gruyere sandwiches; cheese plates; gnocchi with asparagus; crab cakes; quesadillas; salads; burgers and lots more, from about $6 to $18. Included in the spectrum from chef Geoff Bragg: steak au poivre; Belgian waffles; breakfast plates of eggs/toast/grits; ham, egg and Gruyere sandwiches; cheese plates; gnocchi with asparagus; crab cakes; quesadillas; salads;...

Recalculating or deferring deposits into pension systems for state employees and school teachers likely won't cost taxpayers too much more in the long run. But other moves, including the delayed payment of $165 million to public universities and community colleges, will make the problem worse in the state budget starting Oct. Both Democrats and Republicans criticize fund shifts, accounting changes and other temporary fixes but often find them politically easier than raising taxes or...

The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday amended the governor's proposal to set the increase at 20 cents, while raising taxes on cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff. Tobacco companies have lobbyists working against Bredesen's proposal to raise the state cigarette tax by 40 cents a pack. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Phil Bredesen is seeking to pay for education spending. Philip Morris: 20 Cent Cigarette Tax 'Reasonable' Increase Only Half Of...

The institute, according to its Web site, helped people from Virginia's tobacco farming community and public health community reach agreements about uses of tobacco company settlement funds. The two were on opposing sides: Tobacco farmers viewed public health advocates as trying to put them out of business; the public health community viewed the tobacco interests as complicit in unhealthy living. Say what you will about the $6,300 fee, the City Market is important enough to Roanoke to...

Fire has lit up at least 10 local tobacco warehouses like big, fat cigars. Some of those fires are fairly well documented because they were enormously destructive or destroyed pieces of local history, such as Henderson's first airplane or John James Audubon's steam-powered mill. Porter's tobacco factory at Niagara caught fire in mid-June 1904, sparking a conflagration that destroyed the entire business district of the community. Schoepflin estimated the crowd of onlookers numbered "at...