“This is an emergency — we should act like it!”
Letter: City Council needs to fight for climate action
“Council had the courage to fight the state over the election process. Let’s hope they find the courage to choose to fight over this life-and-death climate emergency.”
Letter: A big mistake to close wheelchair clinic
“If a patient or client has a poor-fitting wheelchair and/or poor seating, it contributes to an endless cascade of treatments, suffering and hospitalizations instead of patient progress.”
Letter: Wheelchair clinic’s closure will be devastating
“The clinic serves young children, adolescents and adults with conditions including spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida and cerebral palsy. … A perfect fit is necessary — not just for comfort — but to prevent potentially life-threatening pressure sores.”
Letter: Grateful to help animals through Brother Wolf
“We choose to support Brother Wolf because of the value it brings to our community and the animals’ lives it saves.”
Letter: Share prevention info, breakthroughs on HIV and hep C
“Younger members of our communities are vulnerable when not provided enough knowledge to avoid getting this easily preventable viral infection and not to become a continuous cycle of new generations with HIV in decades to come.”
Letter: Smith offers push for occupancy tax changes
“Once in the Senate, I will push to change this so that the city and county can control this tax. We need more funding for infrastructure and services!”
Letter: Thanks for highlighting needs of women vets
“Thank you to letter writer Betty Sharpless for making this vet aware of the plight of women vets in our state and area and of the Aura Home Women Vets nonprofit to help them.”
Letter: Health care is at a tipping point
“My story hardly registers on the health care scale of misery. Others have experienced far worse, losing their life savings for not being ‘in network.'”
Letter: Demand that your reps hold Trump accountable
“Please call your Congress people and demand that they hold Trump accountable for this disaster.”
Letter: Save money by going green
“Believing in climate change is not a precondition for saving money and breathing cleaner air, especially when it is so convenient and easy to do!”
Letter: Downtown hotels should pay living wage
“As real estate prices climb and cost of living goes up and up, the only solution is to pay workers more.”
Letter: Frequency trumps later bus hours
“I want to voice support for whose opinion was in the issue two weeks ago that outlined the need for more frequent buses.”
Letter: Climate action should be a priority
“Fortunately, there appears to be a growing realization that a massive, war-like mobilization effort is needed to combat the climate crisis.”
Letter: City shouldn’t force residents to drink fluoridated water
“If you want to use fluoride on your teeth, you have that right. But the city of Asheville has no right to force its residents to ingest and swallow a known neurotoxin that is on the same short list with lead and mercury for its neurotoxic effect on humans.”
Letter: Thank you, veterans, for your service
“To all veterans, I want to say thank you on behalf of our entire organization for your service to our country and for all that you and your loved ones have done to guarantee our freedom and way of life.”
Letter: Don’t forget the women vets
“Aura Home Women Vets is helping homeless women veterans in Western North Carolina and many adjacent states. They can help with rental deposits, connecting women with available resources and have transitional housing to help women get back on their feet.”
Letter: Scam reinforces beliefs about banks
“This just reinforces the belief that banks only care about themselves and public image as reported in the media.”
Letter: Preventing bears from snacking on your trash
“Come on, all you North Ashevilleans — keep your unadorned trash bins. Put them out within an hour or two of the expected pickup times and spray them inside and out with ammonia.”
Letter: Asheville bus system needs cash infusion
“If we want to solve traffic problems and impact climate change, we need to make transit clean, on time and frequent enough to attract commuters, shoppers and tourists alike.”
Letter: Gospel Jerry is not really gospel
“Climate change is one of the most ridiculous rallying cries of the left lunatics. This doomsday scenario has been pushed on us for 50 years.”