Letters
Church + state= culture shock
Published on Jun 24th, 2004
0 comments Thanks for the cover story about Bible Schools in Waynesboro [May 27: "They break for Jesus"]. I moved to Charlottesville seven years ago and taught high school in Waynesboro for two years. While it...
Comment was Klannish
Published on Jun 24th, 2004
0 comments We are writing to express our concern about your article on Weekday Religious Education in Waynesboro {May 27 cover story: "They break for Jesus"]. While we are saddened that Mollie Bryan received...
Let UVA develop it
Published on Jun 24th, 2004
0 comments In regard to "UVA's campaign for Main" [cover story, June 3], I have a simple proposal. The City takes the garages, truck rentals, and tire stores off West Main and moves them to more appropriate...
Presley's been harassed
Published on Jun 24th, 2004
0 comments Although one would never know it from the Hook's coverage ["Quash game: How many subpoenas does a code violation need?" News, June 17], the prosecution of Shirley Presley for fencing her land is...
Gay ban earns cancellation
Published on Jun 17th, 2004
0 comments I was disturbed and incredulous when I read the article about the two women who were denied an engagement announcement in The Daily Progress. [June 3: " No Progress: Gay wedding pics nixed"]. However...
Phish great, says Fowler
Published on Jun 17th, 2004
0 comments I would just like to comment on the excerpt you recently ran on the band Phish breaking up. [June 3: "Phish farewell: Dead's heir band to quit"]. Clearly the person who wrote the article knows...
Scott and Compton not folkies
Published on Jun 17th, 2004
0 comments I resent the fact that any female with a guitar is referred to as a "folk singer." [June 3 music review: "Feminine mystique: Gravity missing at Gravity"]. Neither Kathy Compton or Alexandra Scott are...
Correction: NRAO's HQ not at ITT
Published on Jun 10th, 2004
0 comments I am always pleased to see the National Radio Astronomy Observatory mentioned in the local media, since so many people are unaware of our existence. However, I do have a minor correction to the...
No Jesus in Constitution
Published on Jun 10th, 2004
0 comments Thank you for the May 27 Hook article on Augusta County schools [Cover story, "They break for Jesus"]. I like when you guys take on big local issues. In justification for Christian hour during school...
This is no Klanboro
Published on Jun 10th, 2004
0 comments We are writing to express our concern about your article on Weekday Religious Education in Waynesboro. While we are saddened that Mollie Bryan received what she calls "hate mail" in response to her...
We love you, spiders
Published on Jun 10th, 2004
0 comments I think it would be a horrible idea to replace the spider lamps. [May 27: "Squash the spiders: Consultants want new Mall lamps"] The are a part of downtown atmosphere. You don't see them trying to...
My fam fixed the house
Published on Jun 3rd, 2004
0 comments I find your article on Shadwell Court very interesting ["Fooled 'ya: All the fun's out back," On the Block, May 20, 2004]! The reason that it interests me? All of the updating done to the house by...
What's the point?
Published on May 27th, 2004
0 comments I would like to comment on a recent Fearless Consumer column by Barbara Nordin. ["Dressing debacle," April 15, 2004]. This article left me baffled. What exactly was the point, relevance, and...
<I>Brown</I> needs more
Published on May 27th, 2004
0 comments As an attorney, I am asked about important court cases, including Brown v. Board of Education [Cover story: "On Brown's 50th," April 4, 2004]. No one can measure the monstrous impact of government...
Ditch Soering's whine
Published on May 20th, 2004
0 comments I was a UVA student at the same time as Jens Soering and thankfully never met him, but I do recall the circumstances of his situation quite well. I was appalled to read his whiny complaint about his...
Searls: I got along
Published on May 20th, 2004
0 comments I read "Post-election: Morning-after quarterbacking," (News, May 13, 2004) by Lisa Provence with interest and some concern. When Lloyd Snook says that Blake and I disliked each other, he is not...
Shoulda elected me
Published on May 20th, 2004
0 comments The article about CityLink, "Is $6.6 million too much?" [News, May 13, 2004] presented very clearly some of the issues that Jim Moore and I have about this expensive city undertaking. But there were...
Trail is better now
Published on May 20th, 2004
0 comments Reading about some of my Woolen Mills neighbors' hostility to the paving of the Greenbelt Trail was just plain depressing. [April 15: Pave paradise? Greenbelt trail asphalted"] Paving the Greenbelt...
Alcohol is no excuse
Published on May 13th, 2004
0 comments I write in response to Courteney Stuart's [April 29] article "UVA rape case, Student accepts lesser charge." The parents of Zachary Jesse are quoted as saying that their son pled guilty to the lesser...
Rape coverage disappoints
Published on May 13th, 2004
0 comments I am writing in reference to your article "UVA rape case: Student accepts lesser charge" [April 29, 2004]. I was closely involved in the case and was very disappointed to find the details in print....
Wilco can morph
Published on May 13th, 2004
0 comments I haven't yet heard Wilco's new album, A Ghost is Born. Be that as it may, Mark Grabowski's review of it ["Making a case," May 6] left me, and hopefully most of his readers, pretty down. Grabowski...
Where's the ACLU?
Published on May 6th, 2004
0 comments In the last century, I took an interest in the lack of a ward system in Charlottesville, which seemed to coincide with Democratic majorities on the City Council ["Poor and ignored? Schilling makes...
Caterham facts
Published on May 6th, 2004
0 comments It was gratifying to see our friend Steve Taylor and his Caterham featured in Lincoln Ross Barbour's photo spread on the CDoc Kruz-In ["Hot wheels," Photophile, April 22]. As the Caterham dealer for...
Goode's out of touch
Published on May 6th, 2004
0 comments Have I got this right? Virgil Goode voted against HR 3214 (the Debbie Smith Act) because, although it would provide law enforcement officers with additional tools to apprehend rapists, he was...
Coran's trees and weeds
Published on May 6th, 2004
0 comments The "impressive" tree besides Coran Capshaw's Seven Oaks is a sycamore and not a beech ["Coran's place: Rock 'n real estate," News, April 29, 2004]. It is indeed an impressive tree. Sycamores rarely...
Escalating the damage
Published on Apr 29th, 2004
0 comments My fellow Charlottesville native Ann Joseph wasn't forgetting anything when she vouched to you ["Correct the escalator misunderstanding," Letter, April 15]that the only escalator there's ever been in...
LBJ helped earlier
Published on Apr 29th, 2004
0 comments Many thanks to the Hook and Lisa Provence for the terrific story on integration in Charlottesville ["On Brown's 50th," cover story, April 8]. Even for us who lived through it, there were many new...
Churches not lily white
Published on Apr 29th, 2004
0 comments I appreciate that the Hook honored the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education with a narrative of local civil rights activism in the 1950's and '60's ["On Brown's 50th," cover story, April 8...
Think outside the brick
Published on Apr 29th, 2004
0 comments Christine Madrid French is my new hero. The postmodern Jeffersonizing of our town into a faux-Disney, pretend-historical-theme-park is not only revisionist, it's disrespectful to the legacy of...
Hook bashed privacy
Published on Apr 22nd, 2004
0 comments What's more abhorrent: a man who vents his frustration on the answering machine of a colleague with whom he's having a conflict, that colleague publicly humiliating that man by getting a news weekly...