“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?”
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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?”
Letter: Are we complicit in ICE roundups?
“The word ‘collaborationist’ has lost its meaning in these eight decades since World War II, but our collective and collaborative silence and passivity is as damning as those who turned in their neighbors in Europe because they had been declared ‘different than us.'”
Letter: Parents, unite to fund e-cig prevention efforts
“Your first step can be urging your state representatives to pass N.C. House Bill 276. This bill creates a funded state program that can tackle this focused issue.”
Letter: Share ideas in February Democratic meetings
“This is where the key issues that we all care about are brought to national prominence, promoted by all of our votes, if we participate. There’s the key — participation.”
Letter: Women didn’t kill civic clubs
“Women did not kill civic clubs; entrenched financial barriers and a mentality of exclusivity did.”
Letter: End rule of NC GOP miscreants
“The thuggish behavior of the North Carolina GOP has been a disaster, making us a national laughingstock, and there needs to be some kind of reckoning, and soon.”
Letter: Correct problems, but don’t close the VA
“Intense efforts need to be employed to correct problems at underperforming facilities. For those facilities that are performing well, they need to be provided the tools and financing to continue to strive for excellence.”
Letter: Bikes shouldn’t drive Charlotte Street revamp
“I get that Charlotte Street is not the most bike-friendly but would also bet that only one in a thousand vehicles on Charlotte is a bicycle; therefore, taking a car lane to create two bike lanes is like a pug tail wagging a Saint Bernard.”
Letter: How do we see Ashevilleans who need affordable housing?
“Demand for affordable housing is high because of the sum of our individual actions.”
Letter: Professionals, look in the mirror on city tax burden
“The question, to me at least, is how to fairly distribute the responsibility of city finances.”
Letter: Syringe exchanges save lives
“I applaud Shannon Spencer’s efforts to save lives.”
Letter: Grateful that death sentence was lifted
“It might surprise you to know that North Carolina still has the sixth-largest death row population in the nation — 140 men and women — and that Buncombe County has the fourth-largest death row population in our state’s 100 counties — seven.”
Letter: Does Asheville’s Visitor Center reflect diversity?
“I recently walked around the whole area and found only one African-American face, and that was on one brochure, of what seemed like hundreds, for a county assistance agency. What does that say to a black resident or visitor?”
Letter: Trump is no traitor
“Contrast that with the record of President Trump, who extricated our country from the miserable deal with Iran, regained the world’s respect for America, moved the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, is negotiating from strength with North Korea and rebuilding our military.”
Letter: Let’s get back on track with civic clubs
“Everyone in America should be offended that a vibrant, noisy few can rob the rest of us of our right to free association. Let’s get America back on track!”
Letter: Yank sugary drinks from schools, health facilities
“Health concerns in the news have been exposing one after another link to the increase of sugary beverages in the diet, adding to the obesity pandemic worldwide, not to mention the astronomical rise in diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases.”