Radio FidoI was very happy to see the article by Sheila Pell about the proposed NAIS system in the “Government News” section of your May 16 issue. The Department of Homeland Security has joined with the USDA to try to create a way to protect consumers from diseases like “Mad Cow Disease” and Avian Flu. […]
Housing rights(and wrongs) I would like to take issue with Joy Johnson’s comments at the Left of Center’s meeting on Tuesday, May 9, as featured in “Development News” of the C-VILLE dated May 16-22. Ms. Johnson stated that “housing is a right.” Stating that housing is a “right” is not only incorrect, but it is […]
Lillian Mezey’s “Opinionated” column [May 6] was right on. The bottom-line isâwhere is the real protection for the rural areas?
In the opinion piece by Bob Hodous [Opinionated, April 18], the local Repub-lican Committee Chair forgot to inform us about Rob Schilling’s background.
Your reporter's oversimplification of my position on the warrantless wiretap issue [“Prof defends Bush wiretaps,” Courts & Crime News, April 11] is an embarrassment to us both. I spent close to 90 minutes on the phone with her trying to be helpful, and your readers deserve better than what you published.
Driving needs On behalf of Senior Center, Inc. I want to clarify our position on the Hillsdale Road Project [“Hillsdale Could Spur New Building,” Development News, April 11]. Senior Center, Inc. has not “long opposed the Hillsdale Extension” as stated in your article. Our position since the inception of this project is that a well-designed […]
Split decision John Borgmeyer’s article “Dem Yankees—new arrivals wrench Albemarle from the GOP” [The Week, November 30] could have included some more facts, not just ones that justified his headline. True, John Kerry was the first Democratic candidate for President to win in Albemarle in anyone’s long-term memory. False, Al Weed actually did not win […]
News bulletin You performed a valuable service in printing Project Censored’s Top 10 stories of 2003-2004 in your September 28 issue [“All the news that’s fit to gag”]. Unfortunately, the public seems unable to absorb and to respond even to the uncensored information that is freely circulating in the press, such as: -Iraq possessing no […]