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I have different priorities than Micah Solomon ("Opinion," Sept. 27). Solomon seems to want technology at any cost. My priority is to protect the scenic integrity of Rappahannock County.
I want our local government to follow the lead of counties from Albemarle to Cape Cod to California, and make lack of visibility a major criterion in judging proposed cellular facilities. If others can do it, surely our self-proclaimed "Scenic County" can do it.
Solomon's piece also propagates misinformation, I believe. As I read Sprint's proposal, it makes clear that Sprint's system will NOT bring cell service to most of the people of this county. It will bring cell service to US 211 and 522 corridors, and to at least most of 231. But much of the county will not be served.
Finally, Solomon suggests that without cell service countywide, we all stand in mortal peril because we can't reach Fire and Rescue with our cell phones. Well, we haven't been able to do that through all of previous history, and seem to have made out okay. In fact, I suspect far fewer of us will perish due to lack of cell access to Fire and Rescue than due to accidents caused by idiots who can’t seem to get their cell phones out of their ears while driving.
Bob Dennis
Flint Hill
I read with interest Micah Solomon’s
opinion on "Moving onward" (Rappahannock News, 9/27/2000). I note that he did not choose the title of "Let's Move Forward."
Perhaps I am a Luddite. I own and operate a business that is steeped in the history of mankind's progress from hunter gatherers to flying in space. I am an artist-blacksmith that uses files developed by the Romans, a forge first
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