I am part of a group of students who have been researching the effectiveness of nuclear power and are deeply concerned about the plans to [locate] nuclear reprocessing facilities in South Carolina and Tennessee. Not only are these plants proven to be inefficient and to add to nuclear waste, but also all the shipments of […]

I am with a group of home-schooled students who have been studying the effects of nuclear power and nuclear waste. We are deeply concerned with what will happen to our future and our children’s future with the proposed building of nuclear reactors in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and many more in the Southeast. High-level […]

The migrant-worker problem is not a simple matter—but then, in this economic time, what is simple? Do you pay a U.S. citizen $15 an hour to hang your drywall, or do you hire an unfortunate lower-class member of society for $8 an hour who is also not paying taxes on his income? As this problem […]

As a follow up to Hope Taylor’s “Up in Steam” article published in the Dec. 3 Xpress, there is not-so-exciting news on NC SAVE$—a proposal for an independent, statewide approach to energy-efficient programs that focuses on making homes more efficient, keeping savings in consumers’ pockets and creating locally based green-collar jobs. The Utilities Commission has […]

“For Rent: One log Cabin, Dirt Floor, Wood Fireplace, Outhouse.” It is the property owner’s constitutional right to own the cabin; it is a U.S. citizen’s constitutional right to rent and use it to live in. This right has no economic conditions. If this is all the property owner can afford to offer, then it […]

Regarding the North Asheville turkey situation [see “Talking Turkey: Who’s Gobbling Whom,” Outdoors, Nov. 26], I have a Thanksgiving story to tell. Sadie, my German shepherd, and I were walking through our north Asheville neighborhood. On our way home, we turned a corner and began the final leg when about 15 turkeys stormed into the […]

Recently, D.G. Martin wrote a commentary [that appeared] in your newspaper about “Forgotten Shockers: Looking for Real Scandal? Read About Buncombe Bob” [Nov. 26]. It alluded to the recent indiscretions of “our” Bob Reynolds, a U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1933 to 1945, and compared those to the more recent misdeeds of Sen. John […]

As referenced in your article of Nov. 26 [“Asheville City Council: Bad News Budget”], City Council has already started questioning the results of a survey of Asheville residents conducted over the summer by a “consulting firm hired by Council back in April,” expressing “doubts about their significance,” stating that they “feared the responses may have […]

Carl Mumpower’s remark, “The fight for America is not over” [“The Blue Dog Barks,” Xpress, Nov. 18], struck me as a myopic, arrogant comment. But then I realized—by Jove, he’s correct, because the millions of us who worked hard in the campaigns for Obama and all our Democratic candidates realize we still have a long […]

Regarding your impressive new product: The color is really nice. It’s going to add a lot to stories you do on the environment, development, architecture etc. And in the entertainment and what’s doin’ sections, it will add value so that maybe you’ll be able to boost ad rates (we all would like it very much […]

I absolutely love the new way the Xpress is put together. I have spent the last eight or nine years chasing those pages around on my lap trying to turn and read them. Some genius had a great idea. — Sandra Bradbury Asheville

You recently reported on our local governmental monetary shortfall [“Bad News Budget: Staff Predicts Big Budget Shortfall,” Nov. 26]. I find it ironic that we also have learned of yet another (the third?) skyscraper proposal that was killed—once again, because the buildings in question were “too tall.” This from a committee that would not raise […]