How does setting a street performer up for a slam benefit community happiness? I think your inclusion of the category "Least Favorite Busker" [in “Best of WNC, Round Two,” Oct. 20]  was mean, petty and extremely small-minded. To do what the buskers do requires courage and nerve. To invite others to slam them requires nothing. […]

I'd like to respond to the letter to the editor by Steven Howard [“Cash Cow at 60 mph,” Oct. 27 Xpress] in regard to the speeding which takes place on Brevard Road and how Asheville might benefit from … enforcing the speed limit [and collecting] the revenue generated by tickets given. I agree with Mr. […]

There are quiet leaders who walk among us, those who built Asheville to be the town she’s become. Claudia and Mike Nix are two of those leaders. The couple’s shop, Liberty Bicycles, has been a business leader for 30 years and has grown into an internationally renowned bike store. All along, Claudia, in her quiet […]

I am the proud and involved grandmother of a 4-year-old boy who lives in Asheville. I felt compelled to write about the wonderful education he is receiving, [which] is available to the Asheville community. He has attended the preschool program at Odyssey Community School in Asheville for a year and a half, and I am […]

At the recent League of Women Voters forum, candidates for state House were asked if they believed that the state legislature should be involved in deciding whether schools teach evolution or creationism. Some candidates took this question as an opportunity to trumpet their personal religious beliefs—Republicans Mark Crawford and John Carroll led by asserting their […]

For all the times I’ve trudged to my polling station, engaged in half-hearted conversation about how the lesser of two evils really is a lot less evil, it brings me enormous pleasure to have an exceptional candidate to inspire me to vote this midterm election. Because Susan Fisher’s legislative record speaks for itself, I would […]

First off, let me say I consider myself a conservative on most issues except when it’s a matter of helping the meek and needy. At that point I do not care if the church, community or government does it. As long as it gets done. I am probably not your target audience, but I have […]

Heather Whitaker Goldstein impresses us as a candidate for Superior Court Judge. Lawyers who know her say she has a great legal mind, but we know Heather as a community leader. We love her hands-on commitment to the people of Buncombe County. Heather values justice, fairness and equality. As a private-practice attorney, she won a […]

We are a concerned group of year-three students at Buncombe County Early College. We are working on a project in our Earth/Environmental Science class that has to do with our environment and how it is affected by pollution. We are trying to raise awareness about the critical issue of keeping our rivers clean. We are […]