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 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.

Apparently, House Democrats have repealed all laws of economics, and their cap-and-trade scheme will not lead to economic distress, or so they assure us.

I agree : The Albemarle school division’s failing to make adequate progress toward remedying the problem of inequity in diversity in hiring is “ridiculous.“

I would proudly stack Scottsville Elementary School up against any other elementary school in Albemarle County.

How hypocritical can Rep. Steny Hoyer and Rep. Tom Perriello get?

I think many of us, and certainly most cancer survivors, would be willing to make those changes if we only knew what to do.

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.

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).

David Murphy

Albemarle County

It is especially appropriate that Coach Brian O’Connor was selected as the coach of the year.

As Congress considers a critical health-care reform bill, there is growing support among the people for a single-payer system. 

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.

We may expect our current recession to turn into a depression if Mr. Obama’s policies of change are not opposed.

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.

The American health-care system is broken, and my family and business are tired of waiting for the long-needed overhaul.

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.

The American health-care system is broken, and my family and business are tired of waiting for the long-needed overhaul.

We recommend coordinating middle and high schools schedules to build full-time music positions that guarantee oversight over our music offerings.

President Obama has praised Spain as a successful example of generating new green jobs and “clean energy.” The reality is starkly sobering.

I have become aware of and increasingly alarmed by the marginalization of choir programs at the middle- and high-school levels.

President Obama recently requested $85 million to close the Guantanamo detention facility. Congress rejected his request until he presented a plan.

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.

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:

I’m tired of dark destinies.

One question that we asked concerned the congressman’s views on HR 450, the Enumerate Powers Act.

I was delighted when Del. Rob Bell made an appearance

Forty million people need health care

We are regularly warned that alternative medicines do not undergo the rigorous testing required for conventional medicine

Virginia needs Rob Bell.