2007.07.31
Comment on Tuesday's local commentary and letters
Is soot Salem's future?
Diana Christopulos
Christopulos, of Salem, is air quality coordinator for the Sierra Club's Roanoke Group.
Salem Avalanche baseball games. Youth softball tournaments at the Moyer Complex. The Division III football and men's basketball championships. A bit of envy from surrounding cities and counties. This is the present in the city of Salem. Consider this future: Frequent air quality alerts. Long traffic jams on Union Street, the access to the Moyer Complex, as diesel locomotives shuttle back and forth. What happened?
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Tech tragedy suggests no easy, cheap, solution
Ray Mayberry
Mayberry is a retired psychiatrist living in Roanoke.
In regard to the June 22 news story "No drugs found in Cho's body, according to autopsy": Seung-Hui Cho was a young male student who murdered 32 people and then himself in the Virginia Tech massacre. We usually look for drugs or some physical condition to blame for such strange, unexplained behavior. When we don't understand abnormal behavior, we look for and expect to find simplistic answers. We seek to find a silver bullet for the explanation to satisfy our curiosities and to relieve our anxieties. Tragedies are usually much more complicated but understandable.
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In response to David Roper and his "thoughts" on US criticizing Iran and Syria for "supporting Iraqis" against the invaders and occupiers. Mr Roper, are you not aware that the Iranian supplied IEDs are not being requested by the IRAQI gov or citizenry? These devices are being used to precipitate terrorism and civil war and kill IRAQI people. Try not to let your hate America inclination to cloud your grasp of the situation.
Comment by BUD — July 31, 2007 @ 7:49 pm