Granny knows best

I hope that we don’t let this URTV controversy blow it for the only public-communication outlet around. This is metaphorically a tempest in a teapot. There was some language that needed to be changed in the description of board behavior. The commissioners expressed concern, as they should; and I’m sure the board of URTV will […]

Small Bites

DIne To Be Kind: This year’s edition of “Dine to be Kind” is the “most important one yet,” according to the local animal-welfare organization that sponsors the annual dining-out fundraiser. “With the current state of our economy, many families are struggling and their pets are often the silent victims,” Animal Compassion Network Executive Director Eileen […]

Learning those ABCs

Thank goodness our leaders are planning more ABC stores for us. With the economy in the tank, this is just what we need. When I really want to tie one on, I don’t want to have to drive too far, so new stores will be a great convenience! Just the other day, I was sitting […]

First things first

I agree with Joseph Crawley’s letter 100 percent [“How About ‘No’ for an Alternative?”, Jan. 28], and would like to add a few things. The last thing Asheville or any city needs is more highways. Asheville desperately needs bike lanes, crosswalk signs and more mass transit. It would make more sense to fix the existing […]

Let’s get some sleep

Without the passing of the president’s economic stimulus bill, we could see unemployment rates as high as they were during the Great Depression. I haven’t worked since July. I can’t tell you how frightening that is. With my life savings draining down to nothing, and with no income in sight, where will I go with […]

Time to stop nitpicking

As a career teacher at all levels from kindergarten through graduate school, 1949 to 1997, I know that the future hope of the USA lies in the education of its children from preschool through graduate studies. I could never have completed my studies at the master’s or doctoral level without the help of the GI […]

Why wish for failure?

Conservatives hope President Obama fails to get his economic stimulus plan passed in the Senate, because they don’t want to see him get credit for preventing another [Great] Depression. Rush Limbaugh, for example: “I hope Obama fails.” Obama, who has the job of rebuilding a shattered economy as well as a shredded Constitution, must not […]

SoundTrack

Who are The Enemy Lovers and how did they manage to pack more than 200 people into the Grey Eagle on a bitterly cold weeknight? That was probably the question of the hour among the crowd milling around the bar and standing-room-only concert hall. Even Grey Eagle co-owner Jeff Whitworth noted the Arden-based band had […]

It’s no laughing matter

It is frightening to me that following one of the most inspiring, positive and uniting presidential inaugurations in history, certain Republicans are doing their best to undermine attempts by President Obama’s administration to start work on our suffering country. The economic stimulus package that has been proposed has many excellent points to it, including increasing […]