“As parents, community members and taxpayers, we insist that our concerns about this project be heard and respected.”
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Letter: City should act to save urban trees
“Eight percent of our urban forest — all the trees in Asheville — were lost in the past 10 years.”
Letter: ‘Opportunity Zones’ highlight need to defend neighborhoods
“Crucially, there is no requirement that projects financed this way demonstrate any benefit to their host neighborhood, either before, during or after they are completed.”
Letter: ‘Heel Thyself’ by going barefoot
“But it does seem odd to me that with all the various foot problems suffered by people in our modern society, the obvious solution is not special devices to fix your feet or to wear special shoes, but to stop wearing shoes at all.”
Letter: Mission’s sale — one of the greatest local political cons
“In scope, it compares with the ill-advised, Democratically led, but bipartisan-supported effort [circa 2005] to steal Asheville’s water system.”
Letter: Mission Health deal reveals community lesson
“The we-know-what-is-best bubble forms when officials lose touch with their own institution’s stated goals and with the community’s pulse.”
Letter: Volunteer reading tutors help students thrive
“If you want to make a difference in a child’s life and are looking for a way to give back, please consider becoming a volunteer tutor with Read to Succeed.”
Letter: Stay vigilant to ensure health care system serves citizens
“The population of Western North Carolina will not magically change if and when this sale occurs; we will still have low- and middle-income people with no health insurance who may get hit with exorbitant medical bills.”
Letter: Charlotte Street ‘road diet’ will worsen air quality
“Come on, Asheville, can’t we think of a more thoughtful and efficient way to promote clean energy?”
Letter: Expect rising health care prices with Mission Health purchase
“The proposed money and power grab by nonprofit insiders, corporate outsiders, financial underwriters and city mothers/fathers (the crazed clique on the City Council) will undermine this fine institution and set the scene for large health care price increases.”
Letter: ‘Immocrats’ and abortion rights
“The immigrant vote is a major threat to U.S. abortion rights and has already destroyed the March for Choice (replacing it with the March for Women’s Lives or Women’s March).”
Letter: Respect King’s legacy and boycott UNCA speaker
“Speak up against class, racial, gender and religious hatred and those who promote it. Join the protesters outside.”
Letter: Make our voices heard about gerrymandering
“If we desire democratic rights for ourselves and our children, this is the very moment that we must shed our tendency of quiet civility and shout, collectively, loud enough that the court in Washington is aware that American citizens will accept nothing short of the legacy the Continental Congress intended for us after blood was shed for this nation’s freedom.”
Letter: Meadows should focus on WNC flooding
“If [he] and [his] fellow North Carolina Republican politicians and President Trump ever get around to opening our federal government again, I hope [he] will consider doing something about the repeated flooding problems which put the lives of us here in North Carolina in danger year after year.”
Letter: Will HCA Healthcare serve low-income patients?
“No one, and I mean no one, is asking whether or not HCA will continue to serve everyone who comes to them for care.”
Letter: Thanks for making my case on civic clubs
“My service club experience was with the Johnson City Jaycees and the Mars Hill Civitan clubs, both now defunct. Could it be that the reason they failed is the loss of the right of free association?”
Letter: Do our part to avoid single-use plastics
“Many restaurants in Asheville have stopped offering plastic straws in response to this issue, which is an impressive step in the right direction. Straws, however, make up a trifling percentage of plastic waste, and real progress will take much more effort.”
Letter: Faith, love, grace and the Christmas Jam
“Warren Haynes’ 30th Christmas Jam was special. There is no doubt that the spirit of Christmas ran through me that night.”
Letter: Hear, hear
“Well said, Martha S. Bradley, Esq. [“Women Didn’t Kill Civic Clubs,” Dec. 12, Xpress].”
Letter: I-26 questions lead to frustration
“They all know exactly where the improvements to I-26 should be made and when. With absolutely no idea how much their ingenious planning ideas will cost the taxpayers!”
Letter: Public deserves substantive answers on Dogwood Health Trust
“Why is it self-interested for people to work to preserve their medical services and ensure diverse representation on the DHT board, but altruistic for Mission board members to anoint themselves or their predecessors?”