Letters
LETTER- Hooray for Eater Oldham!
Published on May 22nd, 2008
0 comments I couldn't help grinning when I opened the May 15 issue and found your new feature, "The Eater." As the editor's note suggested, I ate it right up ["Maya: Subtleties make all the difference"]....
Stoddard will be missed
Published on May 22nd, 2008
0 comments In their search to find a new Executive Director, I hope Second Street's Board of Directors remember and appreciate Leah Stoddard's contribution to the gallery and to Charlottesville ["Arts attack:...
LETTER- Where's the fire in water world?
Published on May 15th, 2008
0 comments It seems that officials have been remiss in rejecting the dredging option for the Rivanna Reservoir on the basis of only one cost estimate ["Dredging 101: New estimate at $25-30 million," May 8]. My...
LETTER- ASAP's goals dangerous
Published on May 8th, 2008
1 comments The essay by Janis Jaquith ["Slow down! Asking questions to map our future," May 1], provides a revealing glimpse into the mind set of at least one member of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle...
LETTER- Dam is hosing us
Published on May 8th, 2008
0 comments Thank all of your personnel at the Hook for a great job in keeping us informed on the happenings in and around Charlottesville. Great job, well done. I would like to comment on your article on the...
LETTER- Nixing Nichol a good idea
Published on May 8th, 2008
1 comments At the end of the day, Gene Nichol's contract wasn't renewed by the William & Mary Board of Visitors ["Virginia is for... puritans: The fight over sex, nudity, and the First Amendment," cover...
LETTER- Club position misstold a bit
Published on May 8th, 2008
0 comments We're writing in response to the article on dredging the Rivanna Reservoir, "Sierra missed: Club urges dredging, O'Connell soldiers on," in the April 24 Hook. The article indicates that the Piedmont...
LETTER- Keep local stores on Corner
Published on May 1st, 2008
0 comments I write to voice my opinion regarding the possibility of the replacement of the Satellite Ballroom/Plan 9 space on the Corner with a CVS ["Corner Plan 9, Satellite Ballroom get boot," News Shorts,...
LETTER- It's a toxic brew
Published on Apr 24th, 2008
0 comments In your March 20 issue, Dr. Hook (John Hong) writes that alcohol has a positive effect in small and moderate amounts, especially to the heart ["Alcoholism: Have a problem with liquor?"]. But there...
LETTER- Why take one firm's opinion?
Published on Apr 24th, 2008
0 comments My home is off Woodlands on the bank of the Rivanna, and I add my name to the list of people who think that the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority should secure a second estimate regarding the cost...
LETTER- Let them go!
Published on Apr 24th, 2008
0 comments Just what is wrong with Governor Mark Warner and Governor Tim Kaine that they will not at least give these young men a new trial or a pardon ["The Norfolk Four," April 10]. And Warner wants to be a...
LETTER- Public Defender serves court, not clients
Published on Apr 24th, 2008
0 comments I'm writing this to offer a reply to Jim Hingeley's letter about the Public Defender's office ["Public Defender not inferior," December 13, 2007]. The reply offered by Hingeley to Lindsay Barnes'...
LETTER- Dogwood leaves great legacy
Published on Apr 17th, 2008
0 comments The Hook's year-ago "Tectonic Shift" cover story [April 11, 2007] recently came to my attention. This feature is an exceptionally well done story by Lisa Provence about Eugene Williams, a man who has...
LETTER- I'm not involved in water scuffle
Published on Apr 3rd, 2008
0 comments I love my job at The Nature Conservancy, where I have worked for the last 20 years. Although your article ["'Full steam ahead': Emails suggest O'Connell, Conservancy blocking dredging,"...
LETTER- Don't resort to mud-slinging
Published on Apr 3rd, 2008
0 comments Regarding your story, "Bugged: Whitehead's story disputed" by Lindsay Barnes [March 27], as John W. Whitehead details in his new book out this fall, Why We Should Give a Damn, it's common knowledge...
LETTER- Obey the law or leave
Published on Feb 21st, 2008
0 comments This letter is in response to Ally Rosen [Question of the Week: "What should the General Assembly be doing"? February 14] who said her boyfriend got pulled over three times last year but was only...
LETTER- Beware, be aware
Published on Feb 21st, 2008
0 comments As the Hook readers may have noticed, the Thomas Jefferson Health District recently circulated flyers on pandemic influenza (also known as pan flu) in this paper. At this time there is no flu...
LETTER- Delegates immature and rude
Published on Feb 21st, 2008
0 comments I was accompanying my tenth grade daughter to Lobby Day on January 31. I was in the gallery of the House of Delegates, at its opening session when the events occurred. The "booing" [Cover, "Boo who?...
LETTER- Don't diss cats!
Published on Feb 21st, 2008
0 comments Lisa Provence's February 14 cover story, "Stupid legislative tricks? 2,900 bills flood General Assembly," is great– it really makes you wonder about the quality of our elected officials. I must...
LETTER- No global warming proof
Published on Feb 14th, 2008
1 comments The interview by Lindsay Barnes with UVA climatologist Jerry Stenger ["Jerry gander: Stenger has his eyes on the skies," February 7] posed the question "Does the new man in charge believe that global...
LETTER- Patrick show not 'ho-hum'
Published on Feb 6th, 2008
0 comments After reading Laura Parsons' Art Feature on the exhibit of Susan Patrick's work "Houses and Neighborhoods" at Angelo's ["Suburban blur: Patrick's ho-hum house work," January 10] , I was pleasantly...
LETTER- 'Walk' signal too brief
Published on Jan 31st, 2008
0 comments Can you stand yet another letter about the pedestrians getting hit in crosswalks ["Wheelchair shocker: Viewers find accident video disturbing," January 10]? At a recent City Council meeting, I heard...
LETTER- Yay Whitehead; boo Clintons
Published on Jan 31st, 2008
0 comments It's not just right-wing evangelical nuts who view cloning with a jaundiced eye. As a devout, liberal, non-believing Dem, I share some reservations about the process. That said, the thought of a...
LETTER- Walk sign didn't matter
Published on Jan 24th, 2008
1 comments I think too many people are making too much of the pedestrian/cop incident ["Wheelchair shocker: Viewers find accident video disturbing," January 10]. Both operators were at fault. That's why it's...
LETTER- Walk sign didn't matter
Published on Jan 17th, 2008
0 comments Gerry Mitchell could have pushed the "Walk" signal button at 4th and West Main streets when he was crossing the street on November 5, and he still would have been struck by the police car driven by...
LETTER- Kucinich matters
Published on Jan 17th, 2008
0 comments It seems the Hook has done as the mainstream media has done, for the most part, by omitting Dennis Kucinich completely from your article, "High hopes: Locals pump up Barack, Hillary, Mitt, and more...
LETTER- Make mine Virginia wine
Published on Jan 17th, 2008
0 comments Regarding the recent article "Make Mine Virginia Shine" [January 3 cover story], which I didn't have the stomach to finish reading, just a few comments I wish to share. I don't have a lot of faith in...
LETTER- Height rules aren't 'takings'
Published on Jan 17th, 2008
0 comments I was a member of the Mayor's Downtown Committee that included business, architectural, historical, and citizen interests . The Committee proposed the conditions on height limits in the zoning...
LETTER- Rubble belies 'green' claims
Published on Jan 17th, 2008
0 comments And so the Jefferson Scholars Foundation has created what politicians and military strategists call new "facts on the ground." Those facts take the form of rubble, a large pile of which rises at 124...
LETTER- Hear the one about the cop?
Published on Dec 20th, 2007
0 comments The stories of local police problems in crosswalks ["This man: Was hit by a police cruiser in this crosswalk– and then given a ticket," December 6] remind me of a recent joke:  Q: How many...