“When you arrive at the front desk, you will be told that it is hotel policy not to accommodate locals or anyone who lives within 50 miles.”
Letter: Venue’s noise pollution makes life unbearable
“As a longtime downtown resident, I must leave my home and impose on friends each time this venue has a concert because of the noise in my home.”
Letter: WNC needs mix of technologies to get connected
“We urge officials to keep open the option to use all available, reliable solutions to get Western North Carolina connected as they take advantage of its allocated BEAD funding.”
Letter: Asheville’s obelisk, take two
“The obelisk wasn’t the problem. Vance was the problem.”
Letter: Heat pump water heater plot twist
“I was getting conflicting information about whether or not the heater needed to be elevated on a stand in my garage.”
Letter: Please don’t leave your dog in a parked vehicle
“Apparently there isn’t common awareness of just how dangerous this is for your animal’s safety, potentially leading to heat stroke, brain damage and even death in a matter of minutes.”
Letter: Make efforts to learn and engage with our world
“Read, study and act in some way, through your church or one of the many active local groups to change our society.”
Letter: Hopes for Asheville’s reparations
“My hope is that the people who lived in Asheville in the ’60s and ’70s (Black) will actually see or benefit somehow from funds awarded to the reparation cause.”
Letter: Women will suffer under new abortion law
“The power-hungry, self-serving draconian Republican legislators have not only neglected the will of the people, but they have placed an undue burden on women during some of the most vulnerable moments in their lives.”
Letter: Down with propping up a slaver and traitor
“What Mr. Ready fails to grasp is the idea that Confederate monuments were intimidation tactics when they were constructed in the first place.”
Letter: A lost opportunity for the Vance Monument
“I believe that a simple, tasteful plaque acknowledging our city’s (and country’s) complicated past would have done wonders to heal wounds and begin to explain what ‘diversity’ truly means.”
Letter: Getting Zeb Vance’s context just right
“White supremacy wasn’t merely a footnote to Vance’s public career, after all, and he would have been the first to tell you so.”
Letter: Newcomers are ruining Asheville
“It’s the greedy, unrestrained development that is ruining Asheville and the surrounding communities.”
Letter: Better solutions needed for living with bears
“Instead of decreasing the population of bears by killing them, why don’t we try limiting our production of food waste?”
Letter: Join NC People’s Power to spark change
“On July 1, a new coalition called NC People’s Power is organizing Days of Outrage in 13 cities across North Carolina to speak out against the attacks on ‘our bodies, our schools, our health, our environment, our rights, our communities, our income, our jobs, our democracy.’”
Letter: Molton cartoon says it all
“Perhaps it will wake people up to the fact that they really are leading the city over a cliff.”
Letter: Searching for truth about mask studies and more
“Science and censorship cannot coexist. Neither can science and conflict of interest.”
Letter: How can we responsibly reduce the use of fossil fuels?
“How do we move en masse from our destructive patterns and habits, our expectations that science and engineering will solve it all, that some people will always be at the bottom, oh well …?”
Letter: City should get serious about bearproof bins
“I think one way to increase the number of folks who have bearproof garbage bins is for the city of Asheville to put this high on the priority list and fund it with tourist tax dollars.”
Letter: What should we do about homelessness?
“Another suggestion is that we could charge property taxes that reflect the amount of time the property is inhabited. More tax for fewer days occupied.”
Letter: A clarion call to end war enabling
“More industries manufacturing weapons parts and destroying hundreds of acres of pristine forests and the living webs within them is the opposite of what our community needs to truly thrive.”