“Shame on the Tourism Development Authority for thinking we residents are so easily duped.”
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“Shame on the Tourism Development Authority for thinking we residents are so easily duped.”
“Legislation of this kind will only teach straight kids that it is OK to bully their trans and gay classmates even more.”
“Hopefully, Asheville can step up and set an example of how to show compassion and grace in helping those of ours most in need the way to a bearable life.”
“We need to get rid of the atrocity that is the P&W factory and prevent the county Board of Commissioners from recruiting more weapons factories to Buncombe County.”
“Al has lived his life as a role model the way his parents raised him, by humbly and positively leading our community.”
“In order to move forward with a solution, more support must be provided to the homeless in the areas of affordable housing, mental health and substance abuse treatment and pet-friendly shelters.”
“I would like to hear from the City Council on how they will be funding improving our desperately needed sidewalks in the coming year.”
“It’s an all-out war on the homeless, supported by comfortable people who profit from tourism and gentrification. Where is our compassion for those less fortunate than we are?”
“What part of the history of common good don’t you understand or appreciate?”
“For eight years, the public has consistently and overwhelmingly supported more protections for Pisgah. I hope that the Forest Service finally decides to listen.”
“Back in 2001, downtown was not cluttered with tall commercial buildings such as hotels catering to tourists.”
“In North Carolina, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates over 300,000 children (and their families) will slip back into poverty.”
“I hope that all of us have had enough of his self-serving actions and will join me in saying, ‘Not on my watch’ and vote the bum out and back to obscurity.”
“The Forest Service needs to go back to the drawing board and write a plan that protects our forests — and the health of everyone who lives in these mountains.”
“As a childless divorcee, I had to chuckle at Bettina Freese’s unintentionally funny remark: ‘I’ve had children, and it was more pain than I’d ever even imagined.’”
“Her leadership on the I-26 committee was instrumental in making significant improvements over DOT’s original design of the project.”
“He will stand up for our county against powerful influences like those who think they know better than their constituents. “
“He did an excellent job in calling our attention to the wrongheadedness and shortsightedness that have turned our beloved town into a tourist mecca rather than a community that works for its residents.”
“So development will continue unabated in the county regardless of what the city does, but we have a say in how development will be regulated within the city limits.”
“As an employee, I discovered that the processes put in place that are supposed to serve as a countervailing force to organizational incompetence have merely become an extension of it.”
“Letters to the editor are a great outlet to influence public discourse and dialogue, and being a caller to radio stations adds your voice to that dialogue in a public way.”