“Enough people are willing to trade square footage with mortgages for low-hassle, smaller spaces for rent — provided what they get in return is access to all the advantages of walkable, in-town living.”
The gross is always greener
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
NIMBY Town: Conservative progressives hold Asheville back
“Asheville can become a gilded city, where locals drink from gold-plated reusable straws and feel good about themselves, or it can strive toward a more inclusive vision.”
Letter: Show me the scripture
“Please help me out on this. Show me the scripture that encourages political activity by churches.”
A festival for the rest of all
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: City Council needs missionary zeal
“What we need most from the mayor and Council is visionary, courageous, and determined commitment to the ‘mission’ of making Asheville a real Climate City.”
Gap chap
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Net housing increase
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: The sterile decline of Reynolds Village
“I was hoping the village would become a vibrant community of businesses, restaurants and shopping. That has not happened.”
Lynching’s legacy: Coming to terms with a shameful past
“Suddenly, we will have two monuments to consider: the steel lynching monument and Vance’s.”
Letter: Kudos to county for withholding incentives
“If the county is paying these corporations, then the county is their employer and has the duty to hold them accountable when they don’t benefit the taxpayers.”
Smash ‘n borrow
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: Working for peace in Asheville and WNC
“So come observe International Day of Peace Friday, Sept. 21, 11:30 a.m. at the Elder and Sage Community Gardens on Page Avenue in downtown Asheville.”
Letter: Trump directive legalizes discrimination
“This is my government blocking people like me and my daughter from jobs. … You have helped make discrimination against me, my family, my friends legal.”
Letter: Walking the walk — a quest for used basketballs for Craggy inmates
“One of the few outlets for the men to get exercise and blow off steam is half-court basketball. Man, those basketballs sure don’t last long, though.”
Letter: Keep local market program in farm bill
“With LAMP, North Carolina farmers will more easily connect with nearby purchasers, whether through our schools, hospitals or farmers markets.”
Letter: Neighbors have supported Haywood Road nonprofits
They have been overwhelmingly supportive and interested in searching for solutions and commonalities, participating in several meetings between the leaders of the nonprofits and themselves in the weeks leading up to the Trinity Church community meeting.
A class act: The Gospel According to Jerry
“When the members of this class were born, the nation and the entire world were in a panic — not because these particular little babies happened to arrive then, but because the Great Depression had begun.”
Some postage required
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: We must learn how to talk to each other again
“Somehow our country has devolved into a land that when we disagree with one another’s politics, race, gender preference or religious choice, some of us feel it’s all right to kill them. I missed the meeting when this was agreed on as a rational form of dissent.”
Earl-y voting
ASHEVILLE, N.C.angry