If the United States Postal Service reduces to five days a week, about 14,000 employees will be fired. Some of those fired will not only lose their jobs, but their pensions.

It seems that the paper is bound and determined to take a negative position on the recent Augusta County reassessment, one that just doesn’t seem to follow the facts.

After meeting with the representatives of Blue Ridge Mass Appraisals and a member of the Augusta County assessment board, I’ve now realized how far from reality I really am.

People, we desperately need a lesson in government and politics. It seems that most Americans think that electing a new president is the answer to all problems. It seems that we think that we live in a dictatorship where the president simply speaks and it shall be done. Wrong! That’s why we need to be educated.

Troubling accounts of a government scheme to trample on First Amendment liberties are being heard with alarming frequency in the news media.

The News Virginian reported Feb. 13 that Augusta County Supervisor Tracy Pyles will review the methodology used by the company that provided the disputed property reassessments that have attracted much attention from the residents and local media.

The News Virginian has suggested on a number of occasions that the council is not taking action to address the current economic crisis and the future of Waynesboro.

Regarding Nelson Graves’ column (Present time draws memories of the past,” Feb. 5), he opened a pleasant memory from the past.

Thank you for your special paper Jan. 21.

Profound and heartfelt thanks, along with prayers, go to each person who helped to spread the Christmas spirit by participating in the Angel Tree.

In regard to today’s economy in the United States, it can best be expressed by paraphrasing Winston Churchill

President Barack Obama promised for months that he would bring change.

There have been several articles lately touting renewable energy as a solution to our energy needs (“Finding the energy,” Jan. 25). It just ain’t going to happen.

During my high school years in the 1960s, the United Way held a contest called the Miss Red Feather contest.

I have watched city trucks with cherry pickers and city employees install the downtown Christmas decorations for several years.

As followers (dare I say, worshippers?) of President Barack Obama celebrate victory, I wonder why.

I attended the public meeting on the closing of the Commonwealth Center.

February 17 was an unexpected and surprising morning at St. Francis Catholic Church in Staunton.

The Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce, Virginia Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Virginia Chamber of Commerce Executives Association and many other business organizations all oppose the misnamed federal Employee Free Choice Act (“Employee Free Choice Act not needed,” The News Virginian editorial, Dec. 30).

Words cannot express the appreciation we feel

In regard to the article about the Shop Rite supermarket that refused to write Adolph Hitler Campbell’s name on his birthday cake (“Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler denied,” Dec. 17), I have to wonder about the parents’ attitude that “a name is a name.”

In regard to the article about the Shop Rite supermarket that refused to write Adolph Hitler Campbell’s name on his birthday cake (“Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler denied,” Dec. 17), I have to wonder about the parents’ attitude that “a name is a name.”

How is it possible that a baby boy born in an era when there was no Internet could have affected the world as no other?

Our nation is in a state of economic uncertainty and our elected government has bailed out financial institutions and just recently President George W. Bush bailed out Chrysler, General Motors and Ford.

I am thankful that this newspaper is dealing with key issues facing our nation. We have elected another globalist,  “Trojan Horse” president who is a radical socialist, brazenly un-Christian and poorly qualified.

After reading Nelson Graves’ “Hokie Fans Take Things to a Whole New Level” (Dec. 4), I am appalled by the author’s lack of facts.

As the end of 2008 draws near, the Alzheimer’s Association’s Central and Western Virginia Chapter would like to thank all who made our Memory Walks in Harrisonburg, Luray and Augusta County successes

The Marxist party (i.e.Democrats/Liberals/Socialists in America whose goals are the same as Karl Marx) has won a huge victory in America.

In this giving season, I’m so thankful we have citizens willing to serve on the City Council even though this task can sometimes be quite challenging.

With the presidential election dominating the news for the past two years, I am not sure if we Virginians are ready to turn our attention to yet another political season, but it will be upon us soon as we prepare to elect a new governor in 2009.