Albemarle Supervisor David Slutzky has shown his colors again by proposing that county landowners can qualify for land use taxation only if they put their land in permanent conservation easement.

Good health is a basic necessity that ought to be sustained by enlightened public policy.

The liberals and President Obama have been financially destroying our country ever since he took office. First it was the stimulus money.

He claims to have saved 1,000 NGIC jobs and brought another 1,000 defense jobs to Albemarle County. Being an election year, I should have expected an incumbent to make such an outrageous claim.

I was most impressed with Cynthia Neff’s dedication to the nursing profession and to funding and support for the development of nurse practitioner programs.

Please… Can it get any worse? The Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama? For what? When? Why?

Having lobbied the Virginia General Assembly as a citizen lobbyist since 1992 with respect to small farm concerns, I can attest to the fact that candidate for governor Creigh Deeds is especially sympathetic to issues surrounding the sale of food from local farmers directly to consumers.

The Daily Progress editorial of Oct. 12 (“Negotiation, not threats”) encouraged Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney Denise Lunsford “to work behind the scenes” and “quietly bargain for county [funding] assistance.”

David Slutzky is the most arrogant politician I have ever met and needs to be reminded that he works for us, and not the other way around.

For many years I have questions the sanity of anyone who would spend a fortune to get a job that was only temporary and paid just a nominal salary. Of course, that happens to be a politician.

How can a same-sex couple expect to get a divorce in Texas when Texas does not even recognize that they are married?

The debate between state Sen. Creigh Deeds and Robert McDonnell on Oct. 12 made evident the difference between these two men.

We were impressed with the wonderful Italian food at Sal’s on Main Street, Charlottesville, as well as the caring shown to us.

It is inaccurate to attribute the possibility of demolishing the Crow swimming pools to the establishment of the YMCA.

Independent candidate Bob Fenwick is responding to many pressing concerns for Charlottesville as he carefully weighs options and listens to the people.

The clear intent was that the Nobel Peace award be based on past achievements. Measured against this standard, President Obama is clearly deficient.

We need Rodney Thomas on the Albemarle County Board of Supervi-sors representing the Rio District.

President Obama is clearly deficient in meeting the standards for the Nobel Peace Prize.

To remotely suggest that Rodney Thomas was personally resistant to Charlottesville’s integration of the public schools in 1958 is stranger than fiction.

Our system is not set up to offer the greatest care to the greatest number of people. It is, instead, set up to profit insurance companies.

I am very disappointed in the Hon. Rob Bell. He has failed to welcome his challenger to debates about issues and concerns of residents and voters.

Gee, I guess the “race card” only works in one direction, huh?

I’d like to share some education-related thoughts about the gubernatorial race.

I was very disappointed to read The Daily Progress article “Neff ‘having a devil of a time’ engaging Bell” (Sept. 25).

Does a position paper written when Bob McDonnell was 34 years old matter?

Ken Cuccinelli as attorney general will fight for Virginians’ right to determine Virginia’s future.

Paul Best is running for Charlottesville sheriff as an independent. He is extremely qualified for this position and is serious about his work.

Until both of our political parties are willing to talk about adequate taxation to pay for adequate government, we’ll be doomed to live an economic fantasy that 10 million unemployed Americans would more likely call a nightmare.

Are trees going to be removed to construct a private, religiously affiliated building in a public park?

As a state senator, Ken Cuccinelli has made a positive difference in the lives of many Virginians