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Letter: Thumbs-down on monument ideas
“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.”
Letter: More opinion content, please
“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.”
Letter: Open-space protections under threat
“This is effectively a giveaway to developers under the guise of providing affordable housing.”
Letter: Look beyond past in plans for Pack Square
“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.”
Letter: Asheville, take responsibility for homeless problem
“Stop throwing people in the streets while making housing and access to food only for those that you are most comfortable with.”
Letter: Local government should have say about new hospital
“I totally agree that Council members and local government should have a major influence regarding another hospital facility in this area.”
Letter: More logging isn’t the answer for our national forests
“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.”
Letter: Argument for logging was spot on
“Gifford Pinchot himself pinned it many decades ago in declaring that he doubted that future foresters would truly understand the diverse ecosystems of the Southern Appalachian Mountains in their management decisions.”
Letter: More trash cans needed along river
“The trash receptacle availability every 5 miles or so along the French Broad walks and parks is woefully inadequate.”
Letter: Gun sports at Biltmore should stop
“The way sound carries on a river, who knows how far that noise travels and how many schoolchildren, veterans or just lollygagging river floaters have to hear it.”
Letter: Start with legalizing medical marijuana
“Marijuana is beneficial for many people for a variety of issues, both physically and mentally.”
Letter: Xpress should broaden letters’ focus
“I would encourage you to expand it to cover national and international issues so that writers of letters to the editor have more topics they can speak to, and your readers will be exposed to more food for thought.”
Letter: Yes to allowing medicinal cannabis
“Yes, yes, yes. Legalize medicinal marijuana!”
Letter: Do unaffiliated voters matter?
“There are more voters in Buncombe County registered as unaffiliated than with either political party, and this is true across the country, but I often get the feeling we’re overlooked and don’t matter.”
Letter: Medical marijuana should be legal here
“There should be commonsense laws that go along with it, but don’t make it difficult for citizens to buy it.”
Letter: Minimum wage — always behind the times
“Minimum wages seem always to be behind the times re: what it actually costs for workers to experience an adequate quality of life.”
Letter: Put historic monument back up
“Put the historic monument back up and remove the Vance name and then install the names of people who made Asheville what it was.”
Letter: Asheville’s 21st-century monument
“I think the monument should celebrate protest.”
Letter: Rebuilding Jones Park Playground
“If the city can maintain a baseball field at an annual cost of $25,000, used almost exclusively by boys paying to play in organized sports leagues, I sincerely hope we can fund the maintenance of a rebuilt Jones Park Playground.”
Letter: Fix the medical marijuana bill
“It will hand production and sales to wealthy, established corporations, and local North Carolina hemp farmers won’t be able to compete.”