A raised Ragged Mountain dam, never filling from its own watershed but rather with water pumped from the South Rivanna Reservoir, burdens future generations to provide energy for that pumping operation.

We applaud the decision of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors to pass the barking dog ordinance and we are hopeful that Fluvanna County might follow suit.

The mandate of the Virginia Department of Corrections is to serve Virginia.

Olivia Heide’s Memorial Day lemonade stand started as a lesson in caring and kindness but wound up a primer on gratitude and appreciation.

Right here in Charlottesville, the Jessup family is living proof that the entrepreneurial philanthropist is not new.

There is but one “tanning butler” — the toned and tony Leo de la Hoz, who plies his trade, and his sunscreen, at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach in Miami Beach, Fla.

In “Democrats promote U.S. values” (The Daily Progress, June 13), the letter writer makes some rather amazing statements.

I was both surprised and bothered by something I read on June 17 in Eugene Robinson’s Daily Progress column, “Court keeping Bush in check.”

Seventy million dollars for a streetcar line?

After reading the letter in the May 30 Daily Progress headlined “Make naturalization laws simpler,” I felt compelled to address this issue and others facing America today.

Haste may not make waste after all.
Charlottesville City Council is wise to condense its Downtown Mall restoration project to shorten the period of disruption to businesses and visitors.
The city needn’t look too far for an example of what can go wrong.

The comments in “Shooting yourself in the Left foot” (The Daily Progress, June 8), are misguided, inflammatory and completely out of touch.

A “collapse of prosperity” was forecast at a U.S. Senate Banking Committee hearing the other day — and it had nothing to do with the mortgage crisis or the price of gasoline.

On May 15, The Daily Progress published a column by Jim Brewer criticizing management of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore under a court settlement that ended a recent lawsuit against the National Park Service (“Beaches off limits to fishermen”).

Debbie Ryan has been in our Hall of Fame for years.

Good luck to the Paramount on its new association with SMG.

Few opinion pieces have hit home with me as much as The Daily Progress editorial “Pedestrians are not safe” (June 11). Thousands of residents of Albemarle County have experienced this problem and been forced to alter their behavior to cope with it.

One day it was burning up outside and I saw a water fountain at Lee Park on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. I ran over to it hoping to get some nice, cool water, but when I pressed the button there was no water.

This month, Charlottesville is demolishing Smith Pool to build a better fitness and aquatics facility (“Pool’s demolition imminent,” The Daily Progress, May 20). The new pool will give our community a chance to turn over a new leaf when it comes to equal access to swim facilities for children of all colors and economic backgrounds.

I just made a deposit in my spiritual future.

The author of “Shooting yourself in the Left foot” (The Daily Progress, June 8) has an extremist view of the way Americans vote, and mocks a large population of people who do not have the same political views as he does.

What can I say in reply to the two insightful letters to the editor in the June 8 Daily Progress, “Shooting yourself in the Left foot” and “Liberals afraid of U.S. values” except “amen, amen!”?

Jim Gilmore’s slash-and-burn campaign tactics at the Republican Party convention recently did a disservice to the voters of Virginia.

Do you remember the April fool’s joke of sending a post card to a friend and writing: “Please disregard previous message” when indeed there was no previous message?

The good news: The United States no longer needs vast stockpiles of nuclear weapons.

Ann Hanna is missing a kidney, Tommy Eavers has it and everyone is fine with that, thank you very much.

I want to congratulate and thank the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors for taking decisive action to protect the health of our residents and the natural environment.

On a whim, I recently drove to Oklahoma City to watch the Women’s College World Series in softball. I am so glad that I did.

With his family literally starving, John Lawrence Locher, like so many people in the Great Depression, dropped out of high school to help feed his family. Not only was his father out of work, he also was stricken with tuberculosis. And then, like so many of his peers, Mr. Locher went off to fight in World War II, serving in the Pacific.

In response to Albemarle County’s barking dog ordinance: