Protests against recently proposed ordinancesâfor mountain protection and phasing and clusteringâcenter around defense of “property rights,” including anticipated limitations on the amount of profit landowners can hope to make by selling their land to developers [“Mountain overlay proposals irk landowners,” Development News, August 8].
The Week’s not weak The expanded writing of The Week section is a welcome change for the C-VILLE Weekly [February 7]. In my issue, the numbering of the pages was omitted starting with page 8 and not resuming until page 16. Was this intentional? I hope this change meets a favorable response with readers and […]
In the August 8 edition of C-VILLE, in the Opinionated column by Mayor David Brown [“We\’re No. 1! How do we keep it that way?”], he talks of why Char-lottesville is such a wonderful place to live, listing as one of the reasons the “bustling pedestrian mall.”
Mummy’s not the word Thank you for the opportunity to voice my concerns about The Party Crasher article on the Crooked Road Music trail in your August 8 edition [“I think we’re all hillbillies on this bus”]. Was the best way to handle the assignment of this article to your Party Crasher by sending an […]
Organics’ broad appeal I was pleased to see your story, “The $5 Tomato” [August 1], listing local farms, describing organic methods, and citing the regional food system study undertaken by a UVA architecture class. We are lucky to have organic farms in the area, as well as such a progressive school of architecture. However, I […]
“Restructuring” in actionFrom time to time you publish letters that are critical of University restructuring [“’Feelings’ vs. ‘Facts,” Mailbag, July 25]. These letters often say that wages at the Medical Center have been adversely affected since codified autonomy began in 1996. If by “adversely affected” they mean wage increases have not kept up with State-granted […]
Enjoy it while you can Erika Howsare’s bittersweet obituary about a portion of Old Lynchburg Road in “A Quiet Place” [Places We’ll Lose, July 18] was touching and personal to me. This has been my road home for the past 15 years. What drew us to our little spot carved out of the woods […]
On the cover of the July 11 issue of C-VILLE, “Drive yourself crazy” is an unfortunate and dehumanizing choice of words. They are an affront to people who struggle to cope with symptoms of mental illness. Labels like “crazy,” “loony bin,” funny farm,” etc., are dehumanizing to victims of mental illness. The stigma can deter people from seeking medical help.
In reviewing the National Research Council’s rankings, I would like to clarify a statement I made in response to a question during the Board of Visitors meeting on Friday, June 9, and that you included in your recent article on graduate student funding [“Grad student funding not up to snuff,” UVA News, June 13].
I applaud your publishing Pete Armetta\’s article on the mental health services public funding crisis [“Opinionated,” May 30]. Under-funded mental health services mean under-treated people, and one of the tragic results of untreated mental illness
is suicide.