July 01, 2009
New health-care paradigm needed
The U.S. Senate is creating a bill that will guarantee everyone has access to quality, affordable health care. It can’t happen fast enough.
Jefferson would stand up for science
Jefferson did not seek to banish God from schools in his day. But it is difficult indeed to believe he would support creationism masquerading as science.
Cap-and-trade is harmful scheme
Apparently, House Democrats have repealed all laws of economics, and their cap-and-trade scheme will not lead to economic distress, or so they assure us.
June 30, 2009
Schools need more blacks on staff
I agree : The Albemarle school division’s failing to make adequate progress toward remedying the problem of inequity in diversity in hiring is “ridiculous.“
Small schools, not ‘small’ education
I would proudly stack Scottsville Elementary School up against any other elementary school in Albemarle County.
June 29, 2009
Hoyer, Perriello are hypocritical
How hypocritical can Rep. Steny Hoyer and Rep. Tom Perriello get?
Diet is best prevention to cancer
I think many of us, and certainly most cancer survivors, would be willing to make those changes if we only knew what to do.
Dominion needs to stop spraying
Traveling west on Fontaine Avenue, one cannot help but notice the unsightly herbicide spraying along the power line adjacent to Piedmont Housing, home to a number of families with young children.
June 28, 2009
Monuments need to honor blacks
I can only wonder when Charlottesville will see fit to correct an equally egregious historical distortion, and add to the existing monuments to Confederate nostalgia downtown (the statues of Lee, Jackson, and the Confederate soldier).
Check details in health-care bill
David Murphy
Albemarle County
June 27, 2009
Team great this year, but wait ...
It is especially appropriate that Coach Brian O’Connor was selected as the coach of the year.
Reform would set health care right
As Congress considers a critical health-care reform bill, there is growing support among the people for a single-payer system.
June 26, 2009
Happy, human British medicine
With all the negative comments about the consequences of going to socialized medicine, I’d like to relate a recent experience of my English sister.
History holds economic warnings
We may expect our current recession to turn into a depression if Mr. Obama’s policies of change are not opposed.
Happy, human British medicine
With all the negative comments about the consequences of going to socialized medicine, I’d like to relate a recent experience of my English sister.
June 25, 2009
We need better health care now
The American health-care system is broken, and my family and business are tired of waiting for the long-needed overhaul.
President right to exercise caution
We are already engaged in two wars; with North Korea’s moves to further intimidate, we cannot be more aggressive in our response in Iran.
We need better health care now
The American health-care system is broken, and my family and business are tired of waiting for the long-needed overhaul.
June 24, 2009
All children deserve good music education
We recommend coordinating middle and high schools schedules to build full-time music positions that guarantee oversight over our music offerings.
Green benefits are overrated
President Obama has praised Spain as a successful example of generating new green jobs and “clean energy.” The reality is starkly sobering.
June 23, 2009
Keep music disciplines separate
I have become aware of and increasingly alarmed by the marginalization of choir programs at the middle- and high-school levels.
If this is how we close Gitmo ...
President Obama recently requested $85 million to close the Guantanamo detention facility. Congress rejected his request until he presented a plan.
A vision for a lively McIntire
With all due respect to the McIntire golf course, much of that space could be opened up to Frisbees, kites, picnickers, cross-country skiers, sledders, etc.
June 22, 2009
Creator deserves place in schools
Those who do not believe in a Creator God or in intelligent design, as well as those who believe public schools should not mention religion, may not have read (as I had not read) what Thomas Jefferson said:
Humans are now ‘smart but dumb’
I’m tired of dark destinies.
Perriello ignoring Constitution
One question that we asked concerned the congressman’s views on HR 450, the Enumerate Powers Act.
June 21, 2009
Del. Bell cares for community
I was delighted when Del. Rob Bell made an appearance
Stop ‘helping,‘ just reduce taxes
Forty million people need health care
Medical breakthroughs seldom are
We are regularly warned that alternative medicines do not undergo the rigorous testing required for conventional medicine
June 20, 2009
Bell stands up for businesses
Virginia needs Rob Bell.

