Letters

I was on my way home from a doctor’s appointment in Wytheville when I stopped by the Lakes to Florida grill on Highway 21. I got to talking with the man behind the counter while we waited for my onion rings to cook. 
We talked about winter weather and hard times, and when I said I was grateful for Medicare, I got an earful.
This man e-mailed Rep. Morgan Griffith every day for two solid months, trying to get some help. A member of his family had an urgent disability application and they were stuck in a bunch of red tape.

This letter to editor is in reference to the closing of Novant Health’s cardiology office located on West Stuart Drive in Galax.
I was so shocked to learn some two or three weeks ago that the Galax office was closing. I was no more shocked than all the employees that worked at the office. They were told the previous Friday.
I was told that they had tried to get a cardiologist to come to Galax and were trying to find replacement jobs for the employees.

I would like to mention a loss of our basic rights of land ownership that is being deleted, slowly but surely.
I am told that Virginia mandates that counties must have either zoning or a subdivision ordinance but I don’t think that it mandates this 38-page monstrosity of Carroll County’s.
It appears to me that the intent and language of the ordinance is only concerned with development. There are reasons for land division other than development or housing.

2018 has started out where 2017 ended. Sad and disgusting, where violence has taken the lives of police officers and a little girl who came between the mother and a loser of a boyfriend.
The same political circus goes on. But with a twist.
Vulgarity, no shame, the attitude shown from the Oval Office is “I’m the leader and you’re the pumpkin eater — deal with it”
In that so-called bipartisan meeting of Congress to set out a plan to tackle the problems from immigration to the budget, the end result was who could cuss the most.