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A jogger runs through it

While attending a workshop this week in Norfolk, I ran each morning along the shores of the Elizabeth River. If Greensboro could muster a fraction of the condos and townhouses sprouting there like weeds, then we'd be cookin'.

What does Norfolk have that we don't? Well, for one thing, it has water. And a better economy.

But I'm also told it also has a visionary mayor who enjoys strong support from the city council and the business community.

Norfolk voters, incidentally, don't directly elect their mayor; he's chosen by the council. But that system may be about to change.

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