The smart commute In response to Joseph Booe’s dismissive letter about Stratton Salidis’ article “Sprawl is not for all” [Mailbag, June 24], I would like to say that Mr. Booe misrepresented the article. No one is suggesting that we develop bike lanes along major highways so that residents of surrounding counties can bike to work. […]
Who owns what “In this day and age when the broadcasting and print media are controlled by huge and often left-wing conglomerates…,” writes Kim Umstadter of Free Union [Mailbag, June 24]. Kim, I know where you get that idea. But it’s simply not true. A brief rundown: Right-winger Rupert Murdoch owns Fox and 22 TV […]
Paved with good intentions On this Tuesday morning, the sky was gray and it was raining. I was feeling blue until I picked up a copy of the C-VILLE. And after reading Stratton Salidis’ article “Sprawl is not for all” [Comment, June 17] I could not stop laughing. It was a great pick-me-up. I was […]
Sound check Brad Eure, owner of WINA, is quoted in the cover story to your June 10 issue [“C-VILLE 20”] as saying, “I learned to do broadcasting by being involved in the community, to reflect the mores of the community in the programming.” I wonder how Eure reconciles his view of community broadcasting with the […]
Life saver For various—and to me, valid—reasons I am opposed to human cloning. Still, I wish there were some way in which to duplicate Ted Rall. If not his very being, at least the fast track on which his brain cells run, and the blinding sharpness of his ability to sniff out the phony. The […]
Road warrior In my 18-and-a-half years of voting and helping elect our City Council, I usually voted for and as a Democrat, like all good minorities have done since the late John F. Kennedy’s years. I am so pleased that the last election I changed my ways and took the “road less traveled” by voting […]
Don’t count your Chicks… I read the recent letter from Angie Logan of WCYK radio about the Dixie Chicks flap, in which she excoriates your newspaper for incomplete reporting and calls your credibility into question [Mailbag, May 5]. The irony here is so thick I could cut it with a knife. Shortly after [Dixie Chicks […]
The failure of war John Payne’s recent letter asked those who opposed the war how we now felt about the liberation of the Iraqi people, and to acknowledge that Bush had been right all along [Mailbag, April 29]. Nobody with a heart can deny feeling joy and relief for the end (if there is an […]
Poly want a lover? Thank you for putting out the recent survey on sexual relationships. I took the survey and was amused, mildly surprised and disappointed by the strictly monogamous angle at which it was written. There are many people in the world (and certainly lots in Central Virginia) who practice polyamory as an alternative […]
Hooray for heresy Thank you, thank you, thank you, for Ted Rall and “Tom Tomorrow.” I shudder to think what might happen to my poor brain if its inarticulate fury at the Commander-’n’-thief and his oily cohorts were not clarified and expressed for me by Ted ‘n’ Tom. Dissenters, doubters and questioners are our only […]