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Letter: Sloan has courage, skills to help Buncombe
“Parker shares my personal investment in Buncombe’s children. Smart kids don’t close achievement gaps; policy does.”
Letter: Thumbs down on mocking corrupt county officials
“While it is true that the recent Wanda Greene et al. scandal was a gross example of greed and entitlement gone wild, I was very disappointed that your editors thought it is funny to mock people who have been tried, justly convicted and are paying their debt to society.”
Letter: Wells offers a wise, thoughtful perspective
“Terri is a good listener who is passionate about improving the quality of life for all the residents of our county, those living in our urban areas as well as those residing in our more distant rural sections.”
Letter: Help get Sams on ballot for District 11
“Her programs prioritize wise strategies for medical pain intervention, a much-needed strategy for curbing if not ending opioid and other rampant addictions.”
Letter: Asheville’s progressive addiction is growing old
“It’s revealing that Asheville’s progressive community literally cringes at diversity of thought exposures found in conservative thinking.”
Letter: Helping children with autism
“So the million-dollar question is: How can we help autistic kids who cannot tolerate noise and who are tortured and tormented by noise and who lose all functioning in a noisy environment?”
Letter: Make a positive change with an electric vehicle
“Not only are EVs better for the environment, they are better on your pocketbook.”
Letter: Take action to support immigrant families
“As a community, we must come together and support our most vulnerable members.”
Letter: The elephants in the room
“Sounds like Asheville/Buncombe struggles with the TDA and HCA. Unsolved city problems spread to regions.”
Letter: Russian 5G disinformation campaign taking hold in Asheville
“Still, The New York Times reports that the whipping-up of concerns about 5G is the product of a targeted Russian disinformation campaign.”
Letter: Local rally joins 5G Global Day of Protest
“Because the health and safety of our families is at stake, we have formed a group, Stop 5G Asheville, which will be joining the 5G Global Day of Protest on Saturday, Jan. 25, to demand a moratorium on deployment of 5G until it can be proven safe.”
Letter: Asheville, racist and unequal as it ever was
“In the area of diversity in hiring, Asheville is just as segregated, racist and unequal as it ever was, and while whites promote Asheville as a tourist and artistic mecca, African Americans are still cleaning rooms in expensive hotels instead of front desk or management positions and not being hired in banks, restaurants and trendy bars in downtown, Biltmore and West Asheville.”
Letter: 12 Baskets Cafe also fills hunger gap
“This program feeds scores of area residents from all walks of life, five days a week, offering a wide range of rescued and repurposed food from some of the finest restaurants of the city, grocery stores, retirement communities, hospitals, caterers and others in the food-service industry.”
Letter: More gingerbread houses, please
“Can we suggest it to local businesses to start a gingerbread display for anyone who wants to enter or anyone who wants to come see it?”
Letter: Why no Asheville Women’s March?
“The womensmarch.com website does not indicate that a march is scheduled for Asheville. How is this possible in the most progressive city in Western North Carolina?”
Letter: Climate change requires radical action by all
“I would like to celebrate the 40 young members of Sunrise Movement Asheville who had the courage to exercise civil disobedience on Dec. 6 by occupying Asheville City Hall.”
Letter: A word from BCBS on short-term policies
“With the rise in ‘off-market’ options, it is important to understand what these plans do — and don’t — provide. These plans are not required to meet key federal requirements that ensure customers get the level of coverage they need over the long term.”
Letter: Support your community by helping kids learn to read
“Reading supports all aspects of education and life opportunities. I have seen firsthand the difficulties struggling readers experience.”
Letter: Language shift will change perceptions
“Although it takes conscious effort and practice, these simple changes in our language make big shifts in our community of Asheville, which must also work to reconcile our own legacy of slavery.”
Letter: Change the way we speak about slavery
“We are writing this because we believe that we all should change the way we speak about slavery.”