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Draft Warner

Sen. Clinton is getting some unsolicited help for a potential run for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Peter Feddo , a 22-year-old Virginian, has filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to register the Hillary Rodham Clinton for President Committee. Feddo told the Grind he launched the committee to help Clinton build a national grassroots network, while she focuses her attention on the 2006 Senate race.

"We need to be out there raising support for her, while she is running for re-election," said Feddo, a computer consultant. Feddo said he has not spoken to the Clinton campaign about his efforts but he added, "They know we are out here and raising her profile in a positive way."

Peter Feddo on CNN's Daily Grind

After months of work, the momentous day for Peter Feddo and his colleagues at the "draft Hillary" movement had finally arrived: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's formation of an exploratory committee meant a presidential run was imminent.

So what now?

Draft committees are a peculiar political animal; they exist to start building excitement for a presidential candidate who hasn't even decided to run. They launch Web sites, collect names of potential supporters and raise money in anticipation of a presidential bid.

Peter Feddo In The Washington Post

Richmonders once feared our city's streets were lost to the criminals when the sun set, today's Times-Dispatch reports that our hopes have prevailed over fear.

Central Virginia enjoyed a 2.5 percent drop in major reported crime last year, even as the region's population grew by at least that much.

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Richmond, Reitzel added, "is obviously a much safer place than in years past," because in addition to a sizable drop in homicides, "you're seeing similar trends across all the violent-crime categories and property crimes. And this has been going over a number of years now."

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Richmond was the only jurisdiction among the 24 localities to report decreases in all eight major categories of crime: homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, vehicle theft and arson.

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The department's success stems from a variety of things, Buckovich said, including sector policing, community engagement and a problem-solving approach to fighting crime that uses focus-mission teams to more intensely target specific areas and individuals.

Al Pacino summed it all up in the movie City Hall:

There was a palace that was a city. It was a PALACE! It was a PALACE and it CAN BE A PALACE AGAIN! A PALACE, in which there is no king or queen, or dukes or earls or princes, but subjects all: subjects beholden to each other, to make a better place to live. Is that too much to ask?

Richmond too can be a palace again and it will be as long as citizens and their government can unite in justice and common good.