‘I really want you to understand what the struggle really is here, and it lies solely on the business owners themselves not making a proper business plan that involves planning out proper employee wages, staffing and scheduling.”
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Letter: Don’t star in a (traffic) horror movie
“Your turn signal isn’t there to show others that you’re turning. It’s there to alert others that you’re about to turn.”
Letter: Say no to Sinclair’s fake commentary
“It is not proper for our hometown TV stations to give us misleading and false information disguised as commentary — and made mandatory by Sinclair.”
Letter: This Labor Day, support a raise for NC workers
“North Carolina continues to use the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, or an annual income of $15,080 for a full-time worker — $1,000 below the federal poverty level. This doesn’t seem right — but what can we do about it?”
Letter: Learn the truth about electric vehicles
“Would you like to stop sending our patriotic sons and daughters to the Middle East? To drive on free ‘fuel’ provided by area businesses? To breathe cleaner air? Two opportunities to learn how are coming up.”
Letter: Perpetuating ‘scientific’ myths about biotechnology
“Substantive criticisms of biotechnology do exist, but for some reason, they almost never find their way into the mass media. The opposition only seems weak because its strongest arguments are ignored.”
Letter: Less academic film reviews, please
“I’d like to echo a request for more thorough and less academic reviews that are addressed to those of us in the Asheville area who look forward to getting some good ol’ useful, if cranky, advice from reviewers at the Xpress.”
Letter: Xpress movie critics lack gender balance
“Two male film critics joined by a third. Color me dismayed.”
Letter: 2 cents’ for Xpress’ movie reviewers
“These guys clearly know their stuff. I appreciate their reviews, but then I have learned to appreciate my way through life, because it is ever so much more enjoyable when I do, LOL.”
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 …'”