I understand that many people dislike Sarah Palin’s policies and believe that she is unprepared for the possibility of leading this country. I am one of these people! However, it disappointed me to see my fellow Obama supporters treat Palin’s supporters with hostility and disrespect outside the Civic Center on Sunday, Oct. 26. As supposedly […]

So, what do you think? Seems that not much learning has been going on as a united culture in these here United States. The neighborhood is full of people hating something—hating each other, hating fairness, hating human rights—and this is a “middle-class” neighborhood. We sure have that going well, hate. Now we’re pickle juice. Yum. […]

On the appointments of applicants to fill the County Planning Board vacancies: If the county is stacking the CPB with business interests, the public should demand their own board stacked with environmental interests. What appears to be happening in Buncombe County politics seems the same as tactics used in the George W. Bush administration, except […]

I’m listening to much more media these days, trying make more informed decisions. This led me recently to listen to WCQS’s interview of the two candidates vying for chair of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. Given the financial crisis, budgets were discussed, as was the recent local gas crisis. Two things made me recoil: […]

As someone who participated in a few Downtown Master Plan sessions, I take issue with Tom Coppola’s letter [“City of the Future,” Oct. 15]. His vision for Asheville creates a small Charlotte in the mountains, and that’s not what many of us in the community wish. Sure, Asheville will grow. Developers and our city/county government […]

In our crazy times, many issues are on our minds and it is difficult to know who is really going to stand up for us. On a local and very personal level, no issue is more important than our children and their success. We know that education must be valued before it matters and students […]

So there I am at a friend’s birthday party. I’d biked there, as it was within my two-mile rule: “If it’s within two miles of my nearly downtown home, the weather is fine and I have no kids to haul, then I should ride my bike.” To be clear, I’ve been riding my bike in […]

The animal-euthanasia letter from Terri David [“Vote for the Animals,” Sept. 24] does not tell the whole story. I trust Ms. David was not politically motivated to distort the real facts, which may be verified by going to the Department of Agriculture (Veterinary Division) Web site, www.ncagr.gov/vet, and selecting “Rules Review Commission approves euthanasia rules […]