Soon the Manassas City Council will hold a public hearing regarding a proposed Fire and Rescue Department Levy.

On Feb. 26, ABC Primetime presented a program entitled “What would you do?” The purpose of the program was to determine whether or not ordinary citizens would come to the aid of someone who was being verbally abused by another in public.

As the husband of an immigrant (Chinese) wife, living in Prince William County, I read Greg Letiecq’s column “Letiecq fights back” of March 18 with great interest but little sympathy.

A reliable applause line in Barack Obama’s campaign speeches comes when he warns that change won’t happen overnight or easily. Nor will it come as a result of a single election. People will have to work at it.

Five years have past since the beginning of the Iraq War and the only thing we know for sure is that we don’t know very much about how things are going to end. 

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors has been unable to reach an agreement on what real estate tax rate to advertise for its fiscal 2009 budget.

If ignorance is bliss, Donna Widawski and many of her fellow citizens are enraptured: “Founding fathers would have said no to NVTA,” March 19.

When I read the letter Zoe Vitter wrote, I was so angry that I trembled.

A recent presidential ad posed the question, “Who do you want answering the phone at 3 a.m. during a national crisis?” 

Gary Jacobsen’s column about guns on college campuses is both arrogant and stupid. 

It is wonderful that so many taxpaying citizens are “speaking out.”

I am dismayed by the misleading and incomplete information on your web link regarding my salary as a Prince William County School employee. 

“Illegals” being criminals may be partially true if you take all the gang violence, but then all races are involved in this stereotype, since gangs of all races pollute this community. Hispanics are just more infamous in being gangsters.

Today is Easter. It is the day that many Christians celebrate the resurrection of their savior, Jesus Christ.

I’m speechless again.  For the third time in as many weeks, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors (BOCS) has been unable to settle on a tax rate to advertise to the public (Potomac News Article, Thursday, March 20, 2008 entitled “Board fails to decide on tax rate”).

During the evening of March 13, as the Woodbridge Kiwanis Club was celebrating 61 years of service to the eastern Prince William County community at the Montclair Country Club, they were awarded an official Kiwanis certificate, stating that the club has been designated a Distinguished Kiwanis Club for 2006-2007.

I frequently find myself in stressful situations. Often it’s because after I see the big picture, I get tied up in the small details.

Today is the last day of Sunshine Week. We hope you have enjoyed reading about different aspects of the Freedom of Information Act, open government and your right to know.

Although the Pulse is a free newspaper, I do not want it. Not only do I think it is a waste of our precious resources, but most in my neighborhood just throw it away (some actually recycle it) without even reading it.

Mr. Molleur’s letter to the editor on March 18 exemplifies everything that is wrong about American politics today.

When the Constitution of the United States was ratified, a colleague asked Benjamin Franklin, “What have we wrought?” 

This is in response to a letter by Michael J. Schwartz, president of Prince William Health Systems, concerning merging our hospital with Inova Health Systems.

Terrorists burned pieces of my childhood during the early morning hours of March 16.

Editor publishes what the people need to know

Today, in lieu of an editorial, we wanted to give you some of the facts and resources you can use to stand up for your right to public information.

Robert T . Molleur’s March 18 diatribe against liberals’ “ irrational beliefs” was a classic.

Del. Robert “Bob” Marshall, R-Prince William is picking up steam in his challenge to former Governor Jim Gilmore to become the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate.

There’s a scene in the 2004 movie “The Alamo” where Davy Crockett (played by Billy Bob Thornton), is on his knees with his hands tied behind his back, surrounded by General Santa Anna and about a zillion Mexican soldiers with bayonets pointed at him.

You may think that the Freedom of Information Act is just something used by reporters and lawyers and doesn’t really have any direct relevance to you.

In preparing for the 2008 school census, the Prince William County Public Schools Construction and Planning Services Office carefully reviewed a database of prospective mailing addresses.