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SEAN SUBLETTE, TIMES-DISPATCH"We can't post the information we're legally required to post."
"We can't comply with the FOIA request."
Hey Republicans, it’s time for a come-to-Jesus moment.
I was taught that one should never question the sincerity of someone else’s faith. But you’ve gone too far, so I don’t think I have a choice. As you gleefully rejoice as those you who have elected take food from the hungry, health care from the sick and refuse care for our elders, I would like you to remember the lessons we were taught as children in Sunday school.
The Green is a laudable project in its intentions (“The Green at the Science Museum is set to expand,” July 10). However, its lighting installation fails to follow the science on light pollution and lighting design. The Green’s unshielded and glaring blue-white columns send light in all directions all night, harming flora and fauna and the visual function of visitors.
Light pollution disrupts habitat, altering the biology, behavior and life cycle activities of species in all animal groups and contributes to declines of insects, migratory birds and sea turtles.
In June 2018, the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors approved a conditional use permit (CUP) to place a landfill, owned by GFL Environmental, on 1,177 acres in eastern Cumberland near the western Powhatan border. Within a half mile of the proposed landfill and its hazards are more than 50 homes. The project, named Green Ridge, missed the original CUP deadline to commence building within seven years of the 2018 approval. Because the CUP expired, the supervisors now have an opportunity to right a wrong for the people of Cumberland and Powhatan.
The Cumberland Planning Commission met in April and voted to recommend that the county reject the new CUP. However, the final decision rests in the hands of the current supervisors. The supervisors will weigh whether devaluing the residents in eastern Cumberland and western Powhatan by potentially ruining their wells and forcing them to endure trash truck traffic and odor is worth the more than $750,000 in new revenue that the county is assured.
Richmond speaks up: Letters to the editor for the week of Aug. 1, 2025
Our weekly round-up of letters published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
"We can't post the information we're legally required to post."
"We can't comply with the FOIA request."
Hey Republicans, it’s time for a come-to-Jesus moment.
I was taught that one should never question the sincerity of someone else’s faith. But you’ve gone too far, so I don’t think I have a choice. As you gleefully rejoice as those you who have elected take food from the hungry, health care from the sick and refuse care for our elders, I would like you to remember the lessons we were taught as children in Sunday school.
The Green is a laudable project in its intentions (“The Green at the Science Museum is set to expand,” July 10). However, its lighting installation fails to follow the science on light pollution and lighting design. The Green’s unshielded and glaring blue-white columns send light in all directions all night, harming flora and fauna and the visual function of visitors.
Light pollution disrupts habitat, altering the biology, behavior and life cycle activities of species in all animal groups and contributes to declines of insects, migratory birds and sea turtles.
In June 2018, the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors approved a conditional use permit (CUP) to place a landfill, owned by GFL Environmental, on 1,177 acres in eastern Cumberland near the western Powhatan border. Within a half mile of the proposed landfill and its hazards are more than 50 homes. The project, named Green Ridge, missed the original CUP deadline to commence building within seven years of the 2018 approval. Because the CUP expired, the supervisors now have an opportunity to right a wrong for the people of Cumberland and Powhatan.
The Cumberland Planning Commission met in April and voted to recommend that the county reject the new CUP. However, the final decision rests in the hands of the current supervisors. The supervisors will weigh whether devaluing the residents in eastern Cumberland and western Powhatan by potentially ruining their wells and forcing them to endure trash truck traffic and odor is worth the more than $750,000 in new revenue that the county is assured.
Dave Ress (804) 649-6948
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