It took me a little while to understand exactly what Chad Nesbitt and the Carolina Stompers are trying to say, but I have now figured it out and it’s a pretty simple and important premise. Simply put, they want those of us who are not right-wing extremists to understand that when the major figures behind […]

The 2008 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners race is going to be [an] interesting, as well as a pivotal, opportunity for us to shape our future in this county. I am excited that Holly Jones will join the race. Here’s one reason of many. One of the most critical issues facing Asheville and Buncombe County […]

In the Jan. 30 issue, Luc Joel Levin writes from personal experience of the ecological losses being suffered in his native land due to global warming [“Footprints in the (Lack of) Snow,” Letters]. There is no doubt that global warming is occurring. Calling it climate change seems to be in vogue. Unfortunately this seems to […]

By now, I’m sure you’re as sick of hearing about the war in Iraq as most Americans are, so I express my sympathies for bringing [it] up again. But there’s something about the Iraq War that most Americans don’t really think about. Sure, we hear about the death toll (over 50,000), but we rarely hear […]

Our televisions are filled with shows about psychics, prophets and mystics. Do we realize that these are about real people or think them only as fictitious stories? When will we learn to utilize the talents of these people? I am a mystic intuitive, foreseer of many future events. [I am the] inventor of glow-in-the dark […]

I offer an alternative title for the well-written yet disturbingly informative tell-all by Kent Priestley [“Practically Alive,” Feb. 13] describing the morbid and Dr. Mengala-tinged “art” of taxidermy: “Firmly Dead.” … The article left me hopping mad, decidedly sad and, lastly, dumbstruck. Gone are the days of the occasional road-kill bobcat stuffed and mounted—it’s dead […]

In response to “V is for Violating Modesty and Dignity” by Jenna Robinson [Commentary, Feb. 13], I would like to make a case for V-Day events, specifically The Vagina Monologues. Robinson states that V-Day sexually objectifies women, but this is, unfortunately, a very shallow interpretation of the Monologues. As any woman who has been sexually […]

After reading “Health-Care Facts Poorly Researched” [Letters, Feb. 20], I felt compelled to respond to Mark [Claxton]‘s assertions. While he finds World Health Organization’s data biased, he suggests readers go to National Center for Public Policy, which is an unabashedly biased conservative think tank for political issues. Health care is not a political issue in […]

Dear readers: Each year, the North Carolina Press Association holds a competition to select the best journalism in the state. At a ceremony last week in Cary, N.C., the latest slate of winners was announced, and two independent newsweeklies in our neck of the woods garnered awards in the competition’s division of largest-circulation community newspapers. […]

When it came to passionate, tenacious and intelligent activism, Hazel Fobes didn’t just set the bar: She was the bar. She was factual, fair and reasoned. Her tireless presence at meetings and community gatherings always juiced up and elevated the dialogue. She offered up opinions, ideas and solutions and had a way of being very […]

It is a sad day indeed when the Mountain Xpress publishes an article that ran last year in the Tribune [“V Is for Violating Modesty and Dignity,” Xpress Commentary, Feb. 13]. I would expect to find this type of meaningless, irrelevant drivel in a right-wing paper, but in the Mountain Xpress? I have to say […]