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.