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Letter: Push for more equitable dental care
“Proper oral health for all shouldn’t be seen as something only in a perfect world. We should fight for it, for our neighbors, our elderly, our youth, for everyone who thinks one’s health is important.”
Letter: Vote Bothwell
“If you want to make downtown’s grating, gravel Pit of Despair into a pinnacle of pastoral park pleasure, vote for Cecil Bothwell for Asheville City [Council].”
Letter: Williams supports sustainable policies for all
“Dee Williams supports sustainable policies for all the people of Asheville, such as a living-wage minimum and affordable housing.”
Letter: The big bait and switch
“Recently released and already delivered for your viewing pleasure is a new “stealth thriller” — your 2017-18 property tax bill.”
Letter: Affordable housing claims fall flat
“I believe the euphemism I’m looking for is, ‘Are you kidding me right now?’ An Asheville rental at $3,160?”
Letter: Room for everyone to counter racist fascists
“When police corral protesters behind their lines and cars, they are saying to the flag-waving, overly compensating, engine-revers that the protesters are the problem, to be caged in. They give space for the Trump trucks to own the streets.”
Letter: Recontextualize the Vance Monument
” I think we should put out a request for proposals from artists and community members, and create a panel of local activists, artists and historians to assess them. Get the new equity manager involved. Something fitting and beautiful will come out of that.”
Letter: Why is it acceptable to kill animals?
“When humans take the lives of other human beings, we are horrified. Why is it acceptable, and even photographed as cute, when human beings take the lives of animals?”
Letter: Kudos to The Lost Chord band
“A packed house was ecstatic over the renditions of Asheville’s very own talented musicians and equally as talented vocalists. This band truly nailed it!”
Letter: Williams, a voice for Asheville’s young people
“Based on her past successes and her current platform, Dee Williams best represents the needs of young people in this election.”
Letter: Brevard Road, an unattended speedway, part 2
“I requested [a speed test] for Brevard Road a few months ago and was shocked to learn that there are approximately 8,685 vehicles/day and that the 85th percentile was 37 mph.”
Letter: Celebrating local trailblazer Holly Boswell
“‘We need to recognize that each of us, in our own small way, are makers of our culture,'” Boswell wrote then. “‘We can exercise that function best by expressing our true selves, not by simply fulfilling our culture’s expectations. We are all in transition …'”
Letter: Bothwell best choice for Asheville City Council
“The positions that Cecil takes are based on his determination to be a voice for residents and our quality of life.”
Letter: Vote Kapoor for neighborhood involvement
“If elected, he would advocate for greater involvement of neighborhood representatives in the City Council’s planning and decision-making.”
Letter: Yoga festival was awesome
“To walk the streets of Asheville and see a rainbow of people engaging in wellness, health and larger discussions of access and change is exactly what we need, right now.”
Letter: Stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline!
“This $5.5 billion, 42-inch diameter, 600-mile pipeline carrying fracked gas under high pressure would run from West Virginia through Virginia and across Eastern North Carolina, threatening pristine forests, headwaters, hundreds of streams, as well as many farms and communities.”
Letter: Don’t rewrite history, just get rid of the monuments
“Tolerating monuments such as the Vance obelisk teaches young people that the ownership of slaves was not important and certainly nothing to be considered shameful. But it is important and it is shameful, particularly in Asheville, where the ideal of social equality is so widely embraced.”
Letter: Facts show the Civil War was over slavery
“Finally, if we are to remember our history as it actually happened, we need to place equally large monuments for those who suffered generations of brutal enslavement near every Confederate monument.”
Letter: Veterans for Peace call for peace and justice
“Active nonviolent resistance is at its best when it does not focus on condemnation, but on healing, forgiveness, compassion and love, calling for democratic change.”
Letter: Article explains food insecurity in our foodie town
“I have appreciated the paper’s efforts to go into more depth about the conditions that face all the communities within our community, whether that be education, transportation, housing, employment, sprawl and now food access.”