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Electric cars run on coalThe essay by Randy Salzman [January 26: "Dumb and dumber: Silly stuff that's supposed to be green"] was well-written and covered many important points. I truly applaud the author. However, it failed...read more |
Feb 9th, 2012 |
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Jaquith omitted most shop-local benefitsFull disclosure: I own a local business. So you can imagine my disappointment when the Hook chose to run an essay that actively discourages shopping locally, [Janis Jaquith’s January 19 "Online specs...read more |
Jan 23rd, 2012 |
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Can you really handle the truth?I read with mild amusement your brief article explaining your origins and how your paper takes on the hard stories [October 11 editor's note: "Why the Hook? We unveil a new motto for this newspaper...read more |
Jan 12th, 2012 |
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Thanks for the movie timesThank you. It was great to find the movie times back in the Hook. It was even better to find the movie listings back.
While I can find the times by phone, I find the short reviews very, very helpful...read more |
Jan 12th, 2012 |
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Thanks for disinfecting the BiscuitThanks for the reporting on Biscuit Run shenanigans. [November 10 cover story: "The flip that flopped: Biscuit Run men want $20 million more from taxpayers"]. I sincerely appreciate your efforts to...read more |
Dec 22nd, 2011 |
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Essayist misunderstood Occupy and its fingersI don’t mind criticism of the Occupy movement except when it is based on misrepresentations of the sort in the essay ["Great people? Steve Jobs, the Occupy movement, and us"] on the last page of the...read more |
Dec 22nd, 2011 |
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Too wide a brush painted horse-racing as evil[Re: October 20 Sports Doctor: "They're off: Colonial Downs a disgrace to VA racing"]
We who are involved in this sport love our beautiful thoroughbreds and care for them from the time they are born...read more |
Dec 15th, 2011 |
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Now I know why helicopters fly over meYour [October 13 cover story: "Reefer madness? Copter and SWAT team weeded out 2 plants on their property"] finally answered a question I've had for more than a quarter of a century: Why were...read more |
Dec 15th, 2011 |
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Parents ignored over 'glitchy' systemThanks so much for "Glitchy System: Inside the student software debacle," [the September 15 cover story] by Dave McNair. This is, unfortunately, the sad truth. A group of parents had been...read more |
Oct 20th, 2011 |
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Scalping began under the BritishYour cartoonist who recently made weak humor [Linda Sherman in the September 1 "Culture Vulture" feature] based on the stereotype that "Indians" scalp people is apparently ignorant of the history of...read more |
Oct 20th, 2011 |
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9/11 editorial a disserviceI can’t even begin to explain my disappointment in your 9/11 cover story. [September 8: "9/11 reflections: 3,000 dead and freedom too"]
Why would you allow an editorial to be your cover story for...read more |
Oct 6th, 2011 |
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Freedom lives-- along with tasteless headlinesYour front-page headline "3,000 dead & freedom too" [September 8 cover story] is a tawdry offense to the memory of Americans who were slain ten years ago.Tragically, the victims of 9/11 actually...read more |
Oct 6th, 2011 |
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Schilling's story borders on libelRob Schilling's article [August 25 essay: "Game over: Whites 2, blacks 0 in Democrats' firehouse primary"] is not only factually inaccurate, but it verges on libelous. The Democratic Party has had...read more |
Oct 6th, 2011 |
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Denigration of Native Americans must endThe Hook has been my favorite local news source since its inception. I have always trusted the Hook to give me the news in a way that supports my left-leaning sensibilities. Unfortunately, I now...read more |
Oct 6th, 2011 |
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Schilling opined without askingRegarding Rob Schilling’s imaginative essay [August 25: "Game over: Whites 2, blacks 0 in Democrats' firehouse primary"]:
Of all the seven Democratic candidates, only Kathy Galvin and Satyendra Huja...read more |
Sep 22nd, 2011 |
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Schilling concocts Dem capitulationRob Schilling’s article on the Democratic City Council primary [August 25: "Game over: Whites 2, blacks 0 in Democrats' firehouse primary"] comes up with such whoppers that I must respond....read more |
Sep 22nd, 2011 |
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Reagan cartoon tasteless, insensitiveI saw the tasteless cartoon about Ronald Reagan "rising from the dead following the prayers of 'Tea Baggers'" for the 2012 Presidential campaign, on page 44 of the [July 21] edition of the Hook.Two...read more |
Sep 15th, 2011 |
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Flaws a masterful exposéCongratulations. With your July 28 cover story "FLAWS," in which you describe the dredge/dam issue, you demonstrate again why you are by far the most important local news reporter in Charlottesville....read more |
Sep 15th, 2011 |
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Hook has the real skinnyBeing from New York I am a life long cynic and suffer from a terminal degree of sarcasm. It does my heart good to read the real skinny as to what goes on behind the stories we here have to live with...read more |
Sep 15th, 2011 |
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Trader Joe's looks like a mausoleumAfter viewing the artist's rendering of the new Trader Joe's [Aug 18: "First view: Designers reveal look for Trader Joe's, Stonefield"] all I can think of is a community mausoleum! It's certainly not...read more |
Sep 15th, 2011 |
