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April 30th, 2008 issue

Healthy environment

I was very interested to see that businesses complain about the new parking rules and that restaurants say they’re losing customers (“Parking rules hurt locals,” News, April 16–22).
In the short term, this is correct, but later, this will disappear.
I believe local painters will pick up the jobs of the painter you mentioned in the story who can’t find a place to park. Customers will walk to restaurants.
I assume this is the intent of those who changed the parking rules.
Maybe some businesses will even move outside of Prague as a result. Good!
Creating a healthier environment always carries a price. In this case, however, we are probably looking at a net wash as far as services are concerned and a net positive for residents.
Vassili le Moigne
Prague
Run the show!
Recent articles and editorials make it embarrassingly clear that the talented and intuitive writers and editors at The Prague Post have a clear and concise understanding of the major problems which exist in the city I love.
Whether it is the “blue line” parking issue, the new Schengen visa rules and other visa problems at the Foreigners’ Police, or the little-improved treatment of tourists/guests in the country, you have a handle on the issues. 
I’m for spending all that money to hire the highly under-paid and extremely dedicated staff and management at The Prague Post to run the country.
Edward Barner
Prague
Rumor and innuendo
As a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) instructor who made the effort to get legal, I have a lot of sympathy for these teachers whose employers don’t provide them with the correct information (“Schengen’s teaching hurdles,” Careers, April 23–29).
There are quite a few hurdles to jump through, and I credit my employer for making an effort to be relatively informed with regard to the new Schengen laws.
But I agree that there are a number of rumors and lots of misinformation floating around in the TEFL community.
Let’s hope that employers will provide their teachers with the appropriate information from now on.
Brian Reklaitis
Prague
Communist symbols
Just like the Nazi swastika, the hammer and sickle represent tyranny, atheism and death (“A monumental fight,” News, April 16–22).
It is an insult to all those who suffered, were murdered, or exiled by the criminal communist regime that seized power in Czechoslovakia in 1948. Someone should build a monument to the victims of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Joe Franklin

Miami


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