In a recent letter to the Virginian-Pilot editor (Monday, April 27, 2009), Wilson J. Matos of Las Vegas commented on how he and is wife had occasion to visit the Norfolk area earlier this month. They went to see the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore, the Freemason Abbey, Waterside, Nauticus, saw the naval station and the Botanical Garden and took the Elizabeth River ferry to Portsmouth. They visited Williamsburg and Jamestown, and drove to North Carolina to see the beaches of the Outer Banks.

Not a mention of Virginia Beach. No visit to the Town Center ... no 31st Street ... no Convention Center ... no Contemporary Arts Center ... no Sandbridge ... no Lynnhaven Mall ... no ex-TPC golf course ... no aquarium ... no amphitheater ... no ex-soccer stadium. Yep no Virginia Beach! It got passed right on by!


Maybe too, off-season tourists don't know Virginia Beach is open.

Friday Close:

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) Close: 47.87 - Good for a 2% or better pop by Wednesday!

Jet Blue (JBLU) Close: 5.53 This one is ready, but don't get greedy!!!

Originator holds WMT

UPDATE Monday
WMT opened flat slow rise till 1.8% then fell off
JBLU 4.53 at the open; 11:42 AM 5.10 yield +11.1%

UPDATE Tuesday 10:28
WMT 49.01 Yield +2.3%

UPDATE Wednesday 1:40
WMT 50.17 Yield +4.6% Since Monday's open : Take the money.

Tune in Friday for another day-trader pick: What's yours?

North Carolina has passed legislation in an attempt to bar a Naval Outlying Field (OLF). Look, just because Miss North Carolina prevailed and the Tar heels snatched the basketball honors; you think you can start kicking the United States Navy around?

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As a transplant from the North, I sometimes become quickly identified when my New Yorker twang with the duhs and the dats and the tiods and the dowgs slip through. Yes, the south Bronx, still in me, has been a source of barbs and ridicule and always made feel like an outsider never to be accepted as a Virginian.

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