“They always tell you what you want to hear to get their foot in the door.”
Author: Letters
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Letter: Missing the old Asheville
“Downtown did need help, but it didn’t need to be turned into the tourist-oriented, overbuilt, overdeveloped mess that it has become.”
Letter: Cawthorn’s inspiring story could encourage others
“This inspiring story could encourage people to achieve great things and to rise and overcome your limitations for success.”
Letter: We need creative responses to transform our institutions
“I believe preschool and primary grades of schooling are more attuned to children’s needs, but after that, the schools are geared more to fitting children into our dysfunctional and polarized society.”
Letter: Homelessness is not a ‘lifestyle’
“Just as mental, physical and socioeconomic conditions are not lifestyles, neither is homelessness; it is an outcome of those conditions.”
Letter: Stop with the insular local mentality
“I’m tired of people here complaining about growth. Frankly, this small-mindedness reminds me of people in Maine who want to keep out ‘outsiders from away.’”
Letter: The sorry sight of new Asheville construction
“So sad. The endless hotel and condo building. And, if you are in doubt as to how mindless and thoughtless it all seems to be, look at the architecture.”
Letter: Asheville deserves noise ordinance based on science
“Asheville deserves a noise ordinance based on proven science that will create a safer, healthier, more sustainable, more socially just and more livable Asheville for everyone.”
Letter: Get vaccinated — for yourself and rural hospitals
“I urge you to get vaccinated and take sensible precautions. Not only will this help ensure your health and the health of your family, it will ease the burden on our local hospitals and their staff to whom we owe so much.”
Letter: Today’s concerned citizens must stop The Bluffs
“We must protect our future and stop The Bluffs. In fact, the best use of Tourism Development Authority marketing dollars would be to buy the tract and put it into land conservation for future generations.”
Letter: Trump and his WNC followers
“I also believe that North Carolina as a whole will have a severe problem when and if Trump and his family are arrested.”
Letter: Stay green, Asheville
“I don’t like seeing all of the deforestation going on.”
Letter: Asheville needs a population cap
“Asheville’s not weird anymore, and I’m sad about that.”
Letter: Asheville City Schools’ plans bode ill for students and city
“Now ACS is proposing a turn away from integration without offering any tangible reason for the change.”
Letter: Asheville area’s boom is ruining quality of life
“Ultimately, favoritism is handed toward developers and bottom lines, while major impacting projects are slipped past under the radar. People don’t get a fair chance to oppose such, let alone win.”
Letter: Gym has offered safe, supportive environment during pandemic
“ACM has always been about more than gymnastics, and this past year, that has mattered more than ever.”
Letter: Asheville High School’s COVID-19 schedule
“Under the new in-class program, Angela goes to school and goes to her hub, where she stays all day. In her hub, she takes first-period art online (she has her computer).”
Letter: Charlotte Street development won’t destroy neighborhood
“The development is to be built on a main road, in the middle of a long-established commercial strip; it will not destroy some quiet neighborhood.”
Letter: Charlotte Street development: Your quiet street is next
“Every visionary city plan with citizen input here was created exactly to prevent this type of intrusion and destruction.”
Letter: Hoping that Asheville isn’t ‘sold out’
“I love the area, and there is a great deal of room, just not necessarily ‘in Asheville,’ but all surrounding areas.”
Letter: Is Asheville ‘sold out’?
“Once a lovely, quaint town, it is overdeveloped.”