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Source: http://blogs.roanoke.com/lyme/2010/12/17/salvos-launched-in-lyme-dispute/
Salvos launched in Lyme debate
The rise of the tick-borne disease in Virginia has created a political and medical divide
By Beth Macy | 981-3435
Her husband called her The Tiger. Their colleagues did too.
Taylor Albright was such a fierce lawyer that she once negotiated a land-dispute settlement from $12,000 down to $200 ? and she?d had the gall to try for $5.
At the Manhattan law firm where she landed after law school, she wore European designer suits. Her favorite was the brass-buttoned Burberry from London; same tailor as the Queen.
But the suits seemed too flashy for bucolic Blacksburg, where she and her lawyer husband, Victor Bongard, moved in 1999 to be closer to family and where, on nice days, she rode her Harley to work.
It was 2006, the height of the real-estate boom, and the couple were so busy with their practice and title agency ? and raising three kids ? that frequently they took turns working through the night.
To house their expanding firm, they bought 4.5 acres on the edge of Blacksburg between farmland and commercial property. The development would be green, she told a reporter, something that would ?achieve the triple bottom line ? environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity.?
But two weeks before the scheduled groundbreaking, The Tiger lost her bite.
Forget the Harley. Try as she might, Taylor could not get out of bed...
Salvos launched in Lyme debate
The rise of the tick-borne disease in Virginia has created a political and medical divide
By Beth Macy | 981-3435
Her husband called her The Tiger. Their colleagues did too.
Taylor Albright was such a fierce lawyer that she once negotiated a land-dispute settlement from $12,000 down to $200 ? and she?d had the gall to try for $5.
At the Manhattan law firm where she landed after law school, she wore European designer suits. Her favorite was the brass-buttoned Burberry from London; same tailor as the Queen.
But the suits seemed too flashy for bucolic Blacksburg, where she and her lawyer husband, Victor Bongard, moved in 1999 to be closer to family and where, on nice days, she rode her Harley to work.
It was 2006, the height of the real-estate boom, and the couple were so busy with their practice and title agency ? and raising three kids ? that frequently they took turns working through the night.
To house their expanding firm, they bought 4.5 acres on the edge of Blacksburg between farmland and commercial property. The development would be green, she told a reporter, something that would ?achieve the triple bottom line ? environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity.?
But two weeks before the scheduled groundbreaking, The Tiger lost her bite.
Forget the Harley. Try as she might, Taylor could not get out of bed...