Step into the gap Thank you for the first-rate article on solving the problem in our city schools [“There’s still time to fix the city schools,” March 29]. I was particularly glad that you focused attention on the importance of preschool. Recent research shows that half the achievement gap in high school dates back to […]
Contain yourself Rob Pates’ letter is very typical of anti-nukes since he obviously does not know the difference between the design of U.S. commercial nuclear power plants and Chernobyl [“What cost nukes,” Mailbag, March 22]. We cannot have a Chernobyl-like event in this country simply because our reactors are housed inside concrete containment buildings, whereas […]
Student council We are seventh graders that go to Burley Middle School. We wish to talk to you about the pros of nuclear energy and why the proposed nuclear reactors at Lake Anna are an excellent idea [“30 Miles to Meltdown,” The Week, February 22]. Energy is used in our everyday lives, but are some […]
Core issues I’d like to comment on Will Martin’s letter about Surry, and also about North Anna [“Virginia’s other nukes,” Mailbag, March 8]. His understanding is that nuclear plants were supposed to operate for about 30 years and then be decommissioned. The official number was 40 years, and at around 30 years the operator could […]
Green acres Inadvertently, I’m sure, City Planner Ron Higgins misspoke when he told C-VILLE [“Holmes on the range,” The Week, March 1] that vacant lots in Charlottesville “have been selling for as much as $60,000.” In my immediate neighborhood alone, I count five vacant lots that have sold in recent years for between $85,000 and […]
Dede Smith defended Recent letters to the C-VILLE Weekly [Mailbag, February 22] and The Daily Progress have seconded Mayor David Brown’s accusation that School Board President Dede Smith has failed to lead on the critical issues that face our schools: first and foremost, the enormous achievement gap between white and minority students. I would argue […]
Smith, Griffin should go If this whole incident in the Charlottesville schools succeeds in highlighting, in a constructive way, the serious racial divide and the achievement gap in the city schools, we will be the better for it. As it stands, the issue is being torn limb from limb with accusations abounding about who really […]
Griffin should lead by example As an educator in Charlottesville for the past 4 1/2 years, I attended my first school board meeting on February 3, along with a few hundred parents, co-workers, students and community members [“A class apart,” The Week, February 8]. I left late in the evening feeling a variety of emotions: […]
Weeding out the truth I loved your interview with Al Weed! [“Who’s your daddy?” The Week, February 1] He is so mistaken in most everything he says that it warms the heart of this Republican analyst. Here’s where Weed is so very mistaken: He claims to have lost his race to Republican Congressman Virgil Goode […]
Raise your Voz I am glad you wrote something about Hispanic media [“Spanish lessons,” The Week, January 18]. We appreciate it. It may interest you to know that we have the only Hispanic language magazine in the region, La Voz Hispana de Virginia (The Hispanic Voice of Virginia), which covers Central Virginia (Richmond and the […]