Monday letters
The Huff Lane School property, the Second Amendment and Rep. Morgan Griffith in today’s letters to the editor.
Pick of the day: Va. to Hampton Roads: Drop dead
Re: your editorial “Running for cover on transportation” (Jan. 2):
I think most residents of Hampton Roads would agree with you. But considering just how bad our infrastructure has become, and considering the cowardice or ignorance displayed by mostly rural legislators from other parts of the commonwealth, what else can we do?
Hampton Roads is one of two economic engines that pay for most everyone else’s state-funded needs, and we’ve been treated like our contribution is insignificant and we should feel grateful for the dribs and drabs we get.
Meanwhile, no one outside this region can comprehend just how bad it’s become.
In your wildest dreams, do you really believe these legislators, with people like Grover Norquist pulling their strings, will ever properly fund public transportation needs? Oh, please.
My personal recommendation is secession. I’d love to see how the rest of Virginia does without our economy to fuel it.
MICHAEL E. RAU
VIRGINIA BEACH
January 14, 2013 - 6:13 AM
Sorry, losing the zoo is not a “travesty”, keeping it is.
Heh, what do you have against the zoo (he asked, having never been there)?
So.. image you are a city with a zoo. Would not one wish to make a profit or at least break even?
Sure you would!
First thing I’d do is put it WAY up on a hill as far away from the heart of the city as possible. THEN, I’d make it as confusing as possible for people using the city’s Interstate spur to find the main road to the Zoo. Thirdly, I’d B and M about needing mo mo mo money.
Concerning the zoo, the author wrote, “The community needs to make donations. We can’t just give up on it. We need to fight to keep it.”
Why? If it’s losing money it obviously is not the tourist draw that so many feel it is.
As with any other business, if it can’t stand on its own feet, then close it.