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Letter: Reverse mindset on guns for a safer country
“One of the most avoidable gun violence tragedies is unintentional shootings by young children.”
Letter: Young athletes should get more screening
“I think teenagers both locally and across the country should get a more thorough medical exam from their primary care givers.”
Letter: Join in to rebuild playground and forge unity
“The project motto has become: ‘The community builds a park; the park builds a community.'”
Letter: Time to retire ‘Best Of’ villain category
“There’s no place in your ‘Best Of’ to identify the top three local villains. It serves no purpose and doesn’t serve our community in any way.”
Letter: Your parental rights begin and end with your kids
“If they don’t like particular books, they don’t have to read them or allow their kids to read them. They do not, however, have the right to make those decisions for the rest of us.”
Letter: Spend public money on public schools
“Any public money to any religious school is completely and wholly unconstitutional.”
Letter: North Asheville’s parking lot
“Congratulations! To the City of Asheville and all the others involved in deciding and implementing the changes that have turned Merrimon Avenue into a parking lot!”
My Story: An elder’s brave bike venture
“But alas, that old saying ‘It’s just like riding a bike’ doesn’t hold up anymore. Not because riding a bike is any different, as much as I am. Different.”
Letter: City should provide public toilets and more in West Asheville
“The public toilets and drinking water access points are exactly what our tax dollars should support. No excuses, Mayor Esther Manheimer!”
Letter: How about a new auditorium on the South Slope?
“Why not buy the finished ghost garage on the South Slope from troubled developers for pennies on the dollar and use the balance of the land for a new Thomas Wolfe?”
Letter: Looking for local election news amid the clutter
“Every four years at this time, I get very aggravated by the tendency of next year’s hopeless presidential elections to displace and suppress coverage of this year’s local elections, in which some hope remains.”
Letter: Danger to Asheville from nuclear weapons
“WNC Physicians for Social Responsibility is working on Oppenheimer’s problem.”
Letter: Celebrate local visions of world peace
“Celebrations like the International Day of Peace are efforts to overcome misunderstandings — not against people, but against misplaced fear, war-making, lack of awareness and experience.”
Letter: Don’t try to ‘save the honeybees’
“Honeybees are best described as ‘livestock’ and, like so many other animal husbandry practices, are supplanting native species.”
Letter: Voucher change would hurt public education
“The end result will further dismantle public education, where learning is already under attack.”
Letter: Kudos to the road crews
“The hardworking men and women repaving Charlotte Highway are doing a wonderful job.”
Letter: Bad drivers create traffic hazards in Swannanoa
“The county needs to address this issue or even have an unmarked sheriff’s car keep watch at the yield sign/traffic light on U.S. 70, plus the entrance road to the school.”
Letter: Arguments falter in gender, abortion letters
“From where are your dramatic letter writers getting their misinformation? NPR or rumor or inadequate news coverage?”
Letter: Should APD’s drones monitor public gatherings?
“APD chooses to provide an example where its officers assessed an assault suspect, but they conveniently forget to mention that they’re also surveying what seems to be any political gathering that happens in downtown Asheville, regardless of size.”
Letter: Live in the present and create a better future
“At what point do we give up the oxygen-sucking activity of railing against the past and focus on the battles before us here and now?”