Put away your toys
I am writing to protest vociferously the articles in the issue on sex toys, etc. [“Boy toys,” February 10]. I am not a prude, but I thought them abhorrent. I realize that Charlottesville is a student center, but that stuff needs to be confined to a frat e-mail listserve, if anything at all. Soft or hard porn, I’d call it. Who cares about it? And those who do will surely find it on the Internet. What a waste of time and space. Please avoid such articles in the future.
Virginia Bethune
Harrisonburg
Brass tax
In response to Charles Weber’s letter [Mailbag, February 17], I agree that the rise in property tax costs seem unjustified if you look at them in a vacuum. The proper context to be examining City finances is in relation to losses of State and Federal contributions. Charlottesville is in the same dilemma as most communities across the nation. Irresponsible fiscal policy at the national and state levels have put most communities in budgetary crisis. I can only assume that the reason such a shrewd observer as Weber left out these observations is that he did not want to shed light on Governor Gilmore and President Bush’s financial mismanagement of the public treasuries.
Gene Fifer
Charlottesville
Grateful girlchild
Thanks for putting my story in your paper [“Girlchild in the promised land,” February 3]. It was really a meaningful experience for me. My father informed me that I had incorrectly mentioned his title of position. Instead of ”the head of Department of Mining Resources,” I should have said “the head of Department of Mining in Housing Factory—Kabul, Afghanistan.”
Sahar Adish
Charlottesville