“To help the lobbying effort, Citizens’ Climate Lobby urges everyone who wants to support this sensible solution to make calls to their senator and representatives on Monday, June 20.”
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Letter writer: Early voting plan will help students
“I applaud the Board of Elections for hearing our calls for campus locations and including early voting sites at UNCA and A-B Tech.”
Letter writer: Asinine HB2 law lacks teeth
“Because of that misbegotten gang of misogynists down at Raleigh, all in North Carolina must now use the public bathroom consistent with the gender on their birth certificates.”
Letter writer: Fundraiser aids efforts to end sexual violence
“The event was successful in helping us forward our mission, raising $10,000 in support of our direct and preventive services in Buncombe County.”
Letter writer: Pig roast fundraiser needed rethink
“It served no one and only alienated potential supporters.”
Letter writer: Pointless needle-exchange bill needs rewrite
“Support your local needle-exchange program any way you are able, and tell your state senators and representatives to get real about a scientifically proven method to reduce the spread of blood-borne pathogens by writing a better bill!”
Letter writer: Dog breeders’ hostility was appalling
“The bottom line is if you or someone you know is considering adding an animal companion to your family: Don’t breed or buy while pound pups die!”
Letter writer: Cornerstone development poses risks to neighborhoods
“Development in Asheville and surrounds is inevitable, but there are too many unanswered questions with Cornerstone and too many risks to northern Buncombe County for this development to be approved.”
Letter writer: Dogs’ rights supersede barefoot humans
“I do not track around feces or poop after digging it up to eat, yet the animals in Asheville who perform such activities apparently have more rights than I do.”
Letter writer: Woodfin fiddles while Asheville pays
“Why did Woodfin annex that property? Asheville has stringent steep-slope requirements … Woodfin has no steep-slope requirements.”
Letter writer: If Hillary sinks, then what?
“Obama will develop a significant case of heartburn realizing that his legacy is about go down the tube with a suddenly weakened candidate unable to deliver Obama’s de facto third term.”
Letter writer: Park deserves credit for Old Farmer’s Ball
“Fred Park, not I, was the founder of this long-standing popular event, and he deserves credit for it.”
Letter writer: Protester didn’t represent news organization
“Hamilton … was at this event as an individual and a protester, not on behalf of the Blade for any assignment we’d commissioned.”
Letter writer: HB2 — flashback to the Reagan administration?
“There is no telling what will be the cost to society from HB2.”
Letter writer: N.C. needs needle-exchange law
“Senate Bill 794 … would allow exchanges to be run without liability, to educate individuals on proper harm-reduction techniques and to distribute overdose antidote kits.”
Letter writer: Council sends troubling message in RAD by using eminent domain
“Eminent domain as a legal concept is one of the last remaining vestiges of European feudal societies. Despite its popularity with the likes of Donald Trump, it has no place in the 21st century.”
Letter writer: People should be free to choose
“I’m confused about all the talk of this LGBT legislation. People should be free to choose any sandwich they want — lettuce, garlic, bacon and tomato is as good as any.”
Letter writer: Vote to restore Democratic and Republican balance
“In the coming election, the current failure of single-party rule must be reversed by a sensible vote to restore Democrat and Republican balance.
Let’s all get out and vote!”
Letter writer: City should offer curbside recycling to apartments, condos
“There ought to be more than one recycling center to serve a city our size, but here’s another idea — how about extending city curbside recycling to the many apartments and condominium communities here in Asheville?”
Letter writer: Silver Mine fire inspires poem
“Out of the ashes of her arsonist’s deliberate attack
She will rise in time and take her mountains back”
Letter writer: Where were Asheville politicians at protest?
“Did any of them actually get inside the mansion to express their concerns about HB2 to the governor?”