“Read, study and act in some way, through your church or one of the many active local groups to change our society.”
Author: Letters
Showing 358-378 of 2950 results
Letter: Hopes for Asheville’s reparations
“My hope is that the people who lived in Asheville in the ’60s and ’70s (Black) will actually see or benefit somehow from funds awarded to the reparation cause.”
Letter: Women will suffer under new abortion law
“The power-hungry, self-serving draconian Republican legislators have not only neglected the will of the people, but they have placed an undue burden on women during some of the most vulnerable moments in their lives.”
Letter: Down with propping up a slaver and traitor
“What Mr. Ready fails to grasp is the idea that Confederate monuments were intimidation tactics when they were constructed in the first place.”
Letter: A lost opportunity for the Vance Monument
“I believe that a simple, tasteful plaque acknowledging our city’s (and country’s) complicated past would have done wonders to heal wounds and begin to explain what ‘diversity’ truly means.”
Letter: Getting Zeb Vance’s context just right
“White supremacy wasn’t merely a footnote to Vance’s public career, after all, and he would have been the first to tell you so.”
Letter: Newcomers are ruining Asheville
“It’s the greedy, unrestrained development that is ruining Asheville and the surrounding communities.”
Letter: Better solutions needed for living with bears
“Instead of decreasing the population of bears by killing them, why don’t we try limiting our production of food waste?”
Letter: Join NC People’s Power to spark change
“On July 1, a new coalition called NC People’s Power is organizing Days of Outrage in 13 cities across North Carolina to speak out against the attacks on ‘our bodies, our schools, our health, our environment, our rights, our communities, our income, our jobs, our democracy.’”
Letter: Molton cartoon says it all
“Perhaps it will wake people up to the fact that they really are leading the city over a cliff.”
Letter: Searching for truth about mask studies and more
“Science and censorship cannot coexist. Neither can science and conflict of interest.”
Letter: How can we responsibly reduce the use of fossil fuels?
“How do we move en masse from our destructive patterns and habits, our expectations that science and engineering will solve it all, that some people will always be at the bottom, oh well …?”
Letter: City should get serious about bearproof bins
“I think one way to increase the number of folks who have bearproof garbage bins is for the city of Asheville to put this high on the priority list and fund it with tourist tax dollars.”
Letter: What should we do about homelessness?
“Another suggestion is that we could charge property taxes that reflect the amount of time the property is inhabited. More tax for fewer days occupied.”
Letter: A clarion call to end war enabling
“More industries manufacturing weapons parts and destroying hundreds of acres of pristine forests and the living webs within them is the opposite of what our community needs to truly thrive.”
Letter: War and peace and Buncombe County
“And yes, there often are multiple causes of war, but that means the influence of defense contractors can’t be discounted, either.”
Letter: Quirky is not important
“Get real — quirky doesn’t work. Picking up the garbage does.”
Letter: Will Asheville go the way of Greenwich Village?
“We still have time to change things, but it will take a focus on building on what we have, not tearing down the old for the new.”
Letter: Ban single-use plastics for our planet’s future
“Every single time MountainTrue takes a sample of our French Broad River watershed, plastic pollution is found at some degree. This is unacceptable!”
Letter: Asheville’s illusion of leadership
“If you are happy with the status quo, then reelect these failed leaders.”
Letter: The problem with highway banners
“While hanging a banner over a highway may seem trivial to some, the hazard created could be quite serious.”