“He is promising to end mass incarceration in Buncombe County by ending cash bail and ceasing to prosecute nonviolent drug offenses.”
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Letter: Hearing loss meetings offer more than info
“She is an excellent speaker, but also she has something to say to all which can be of immense value to us in bridging the fully hearing world with the partial- or absent-hearing one, in enabling mutual understanding. Give yourself a gift and attend our meeting on May 2 at 10:15 a.m. at CarePartners.”
Letter: WNC grassroots movement supports ‘Medicare for all’
“Learn more about how ‘Medicare for all’ can help you, your family and friends, your neighbors and businesses by attending free talks by Dr. Ed Weisbart on Tuesday, May 1.”
Letter: Edwards listens and leads
“Amanda’s knack to listen and understand what is needed before quickly and effectively solving issues is what will make Amanda an excellent county commissioner.”
Letter: Listen to children’s voices on guns
“The mean old men who represent Western North Carolina in Congress — Congressmen Patrick McHenry and Mark Meadows and Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis — are committed to ensuring that our children will continue to be at risk when they go to school.”
Letter: Air sampling for mold offers valuable data
“It is important and a standard practice to perform air sampling, before and after mold remediation, to ensure reduction of high concentrations and effective containment during remediation.”
Letter: Thanks for fixing industrial noise problem
“Jacob Holm [Industries (America)] seems to have fixed the annoying whine and stopped mine also.”
Letter: On Earth Day, do something real
“For this upcoming 48th Earth Day, I encourage people to pick up roadside litter near your neighborhood. The date is April 22, a Sunday.”
Letter: Confederate monuments and phony culture wars
“For years now, Americans have engaged in culture wars, typically over gay rights, abortion, feminism, an imperiled Christianity, bathrooms and Confederate monuments, all perhaps as contrived as the ‘winners,’ usually declared to be ‘leftists’ and ‘lie-braes,’ and ‘losers,’ the poor victimized ‘right and righteous.'”
Letter: Barely alive, making $7.25
“If Asheville wants to be serious about being progressive, about showing up for the members of our community and not just those passing through for the weekend, we need to push Raleigh to overturn the pre-emption law. “
Letter: Slowing gentrification via litter
“I hope very much that the shirt I have been wearing almost daily to the soup kitchen is helping slow gentrification.”
Letter: How do conservative Christians square support for Trump?
“I must ask these Moral Majority hypocrites, how in hell can you continue to support President Trump and also claim that you are in a position to preach about the morality of any other American citizens, especially those who don’t like him, and I also must question why you helped him get elected in the first place?”
Letter: Mission Health patients will pick up the tab
“So, in the end, in addition to soaring medical costs, patients would pick up the tab for repairing potholes, street repaving and whatever else the city councils and county commissions think we just can’t do without.”
Letter: Asheville Archives offer rich background
“I am greatly enjoying reading the feature ‘Asheville Archives.’ I think it is a great addition to the Xpress.”
Letter: Woodsmall proposes solution for gun violence
“He knows that a complex problem like gun violence is not solved by solely allowing guns to be carried in our schools and concealed in our pocketbooks and waistbands.”
Letter: Asheville needs stricter litter laws
“If Asheville keeps promoting tourism, at some point, without stricter litter laws, people will stop coming here, seeing so much trash all around the city.”
Letter: Where are the safe spaces for lesbians?
“For being a town mostly known for being heavy on the gay more than straight ratio — where are our safe places?”
Letter: What to do if we care about the city’s future
“Yet any economy beyond subsistence agriculture is built on skills that have to be learned over the long term. Those skills can be found in three ways …”
Letter: Misrepresentations of anti-gun activists
“City Council’s resolution, worthless as it is, repeats the same ignorance expressed by the letter writer in that they think they can ban ‘possession’ of these semiauto rifles with a ‘scary’ appearance, in clear violation of the constitutional ban on ex post facto law.”
Letter: Signs of hope in the Pit of Despair
“Awareness is the first step in change. Instead of blindly following orders and being cruel to others, let us say, ‘No!’ We will not be part of this current roundup.”
Letter: Keep Asheville clean
“The amount of litter and cigarette butts strewn everywhere is not to be believed.”