WEEK’S END The rains proved prolonged but not persistently heavy. Many drivers put their windshield wipers on intermittent. Many also failed to turn on their headlights. Regardless of the intensity of rain, it is prudent to drive with the lights. When the wipers are working, the law says the lights must be on. Weather such as this week’s tends to turn all vehicles into a hard-to-see gray. Friends, turn on the headlights. We want to run into you in the coffee shop—not in the turn lane.

Alan Kiepper’s passing at 81 received national attention. A New York Times obituary saluted his work as president of the New York City Transit Authority. Various articles cited his leadership in creating Atlanta’s commuter rail network. Kiepper modernized mass transit in Houston, too. Richmond remembers him as city manager in the late 1960s and early 1970s—years of challenge, controversy, and accomplishment. In a

A Richmond economic development official has been charged with cocaine possession. C. Cary Brown, 45, of the 600 block of West Franklin St., was arrested Nov. 13 after a Nov. 4 traffic stop at Leigh and Lombardy streets by Virginia Commonwealth University police.