State employees who should get a gold watch

Mood: irritated
Nicholas C. Kyrus, deputy commissioner for the Bureau of Financial Institutions, State Corporation Commission. Nick the Greek should receive early retirement as a reward for making banking safe for rich people, which is the way it should be, damnit, and the Hell with A.P. Giannini. (BTW, can't we get any government employees that sprechen zee Anglais? Judging from a recent visit to a Social Security office, the credo "of, by, and for the people" has been replaced "by and for immigrants.")

To Eugene Trani, high poohbah of VCU, the thanks of a grateful Richmond for violating just about every principle taught by William H. Whyte on creating livable, human-centered cities while at the architecture school at that other white meat, er school, UVA. Make like a bee and buzz off, Genie, before I turn VCU into a frog, er, small community college in western Virginia. Hey, RPI didn't last forever in Richmond. Why should VCU?