“Given these facts, do you feel Asheville city leaders should reconsider defunding the police?”
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“Given these facts, do you feel Asheville city leaders should reconsider defunding the police?”
“If you can, consider creating a studio apartment. If you can only spare $10 dollars a month, donate to Habitat, Homeward Bound, Helpmate or another charity. One person can make a difference.”
“So, sorry, but local development will proceed, and my view is that our city and county are doing all that they can to preserve our unique local identity and still allow for affordable housing, environmental protections, family farm protections and all of the many factors that make WNC a place in which we want to live.”
“These forests belong to all of us. Cutting them down benefits only a few, while protecting them improves everyone’s health and well-being.”
“This proposal to deregulate developers within city limits is dressed up with idealistic-sounding justifications like providing affordable housing, improving flooding and fighting sprawl.”
“Local nonviolent demonstrators consciously act to bring out the best in people while attempting to educate and expose inequality and injustice.”
“But the solution to our overlapping affordability and climate crises can’t be to try to freeze our city in time, to shut our borders or to blame anyone who hasn’t lived here long enough to earn the right kind of Asheville cred.”
“The ‘chaplain’ comes from a Methodist church that came up with this title and program. Why limit this program to Methodists?”
“Like any competent health care provider, [advanced practice providers] recognize their limitations and either consult a physician when the problem is beyond their skill set or transfer the patient to a higher level of care.”
“He heaps venomous scorn, most of it unfair and baseless, on an organization staffed exclusively by conscientious volunteers who selflessly devote their time and energy to doing what they can to preserve and protect the environment of Western North Carolina.”
“Suzanne Simard and countless other scientists have enumerated the many environmental benefits of old-growth forest.”
“Attacking one of the nation’s largest and oldest organizations devoted to protecting our environment and going after a great public servant like Ken Brame was pathetic.”
“Of all the housing models, housing first, a version of permanent supportive housing, has the imprimatur of research demonstrating its effectiveness at ending homelessness.”
“Lots of advantages to electric vehicles, especially lack of pollution and noise, and trolleys have a fond heritage in Asheville.”
“Notwithstanding the pontifications of the City Council and their attorney, the Vance Monument was a gift to the people of Asheville, largely paid for by Vance’s friend George Willis Pack, on property donated by Pack on the condition that it be retained forever.”
“I miss things that are suddenly no longer appearing in the Citizen Times (after 16 years, I am thinking of surrendering my subscription) and wish your paper would publish more editorials and letters to the editor.”
“This is effectively a giveaway to developers under the guise of providing affordable housing.”
“As city and county governments get past the current legal obstructions to removing the remnants, they consider a repurposing of Pack Square that focuses on the present and the future, not just the past.”
“Stop throwing people in the streets while making housing and access to food only for those that you are most comfortable with.”
“I totally agree that Council members and local government should have a major influence regarding another hospital facility in this area.”
“The U.S. Forest Service should reconsider its mission and focus less on ‘productivity’ for tree-harvesting and more on sustaining the health and diversity of our national forest lands, streams and rivers.”