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Letter: How hearing assistive dogs can help
“How does all that work in practice? The Asheville Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America will host someone who knows at their meeting at CarePartners, 68 Sweeten Creek Road, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 10:15 a.m.”
Letter: In defense of Montford
“No one I know is against apartments. In fact, we have many on every block, and they are welcome neighbors.”
Letter: Can Asheville City Schools try another approach?
“Are there educators who think that kids can learn despite their backgrounds and the effects of outside-the-school influences? If so, let’s hire them, starting at the superintendent level.”
Letter: A nonlocal double standard
“I object to the hypocrisy of your own local coverage policy as regards to greenhouse gases, which fails on grounds of being inherently global, giving them no place on your front page and vastly less place in local government policy than environmental contraception and abortion funding, which have vastly more local and regional benefits, such as the school tax and diaper litter.”
Letter: Before renewables, reduce energy demand
“However, instead of asking how to get to 100% renewables, we need to refine the question to how can we reduce our energy demand so that we can get to 100% renewables.”
Letter: Saving the clover, the honeybees and us
“To everyone out there, please don’t mow off white clover flowers if you can possibly avoid doing so. Your own life depends on bees.”
Letter: Actually, it’s an amazing Pit of Potential
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our community to meet several of its goals with one carefully crafted development project.”
Letter: Agreed: VA Center does wonderful job
“A big thank-you, VA!”
Letter: On Day of Peace, ponder military and climate connections
“In Asheville, we are warned of imposing disasters invading us in the form of heavy rains, increased flooding, landslides, droughts, fires, epic storms, maybe even insect plagues as climate change rages across our mountains, valleys, homes and businesses.”
Letter: Walk out, die in and rally for climate action
“The time to stop pretending is now! The time to implement extreme changes is now! The time to strike is now!”
Letter: Take action for climate justice
“The worldwide strike on Friday, Sept. 20, will demand that our elected leaders stop business as usual and respond positively and immediately to the climate disruption crisis now upon us.”
Letter: Support solutions for climate change
“This is a pivotal moment to speak out about the climate crisis. Elected leaders need to understand there is a growing groundswell of support for climate solutions.”
Letter: I can hear (too loud) music at Biltmore
“It is a well-established fact that listening to music at such a level does in fact destroy part of the delicate cells in the ear and leads to permanent hearing impairment.”
Letter: Of vines and the river
“On Swannanoa River Road from Biltmore Avenue — especially near the Antique Tobacco Barn and on down toward Tunnel Road — the overgrowth over the river is a sorry sight indeed.”
Letter: City should do more for its vulnerable citizens
“It does not escape me the amount of money that the city of Asheville funnels into the tourism industry here in Asheville, yet we do not have the money or funding to make the communities where these children live safe or enriching.”
Letter: Parking problems expose a divided city
“All of this begs the question: Who is this city built for? “
Letter: Is Asheville only geared for the young and fit?
“Is this the general attitude in Asheville nowadays, gearing everything to the younger and/or fitter set? Is mountain climbing a requirement for everything there?”
Letter: City Council should support farmers over hotel developers
“However, given the high number of other similarly unique hotel developments already underway in our community, and given the negative impact that this project will have on the market, I am vehemently opposed to its approval at this time.”
Letter: Oppose Create 72 to save Asheville City Market
“It is my heartfelt opinion that Create 72 Broadway, as currently proposed, would be the death of Asheville City Market.”
Letter: The everlasting Pit of Despair
“Do our millions of yearly visitors think it’s some kind of modern art? Maybe Rockpile Impressionism, a Christo creation or abstract nihilism?”