“Like many who depend on Asheville and business owners to keep their doors open, I want to continue to support local businesses. At the same time, who wants to risk danger to meet basic needs?”
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Can Asheville draw on the past to build its future?
“Today, Asheville’s a tourist destination fueled by wealth-take-all capitalism beset with growing urban issues such as parking, pollution, land use, development, affordable housing, crime and allocation of tax revenues. Yet are all these intractable problems with only temporary solutions? Not really.”
Letter: One-party rule in Buncombe?
“I’ve also noticed the same complaints year in and year out — high cost of living, low-paying jobs, lack of good jobs, homelessness, etc. And yet, for some reason I can’t begin to fathom, the same people and the same party keep getting reelected.”
Faux news
Letter: Americans are living in a war zone
“Asheville has a violent gun problem now. People shot every week.”
Letter: Asheville’s fentanyl crisis
“Given these facts, do you feel Asheville city leaders should reconsider defunding the police?”
District attorney candidates address CIBO
Security, crime and justice took center stage during a Council of Independent Business Owners breakfast April 1. The Asheville-based trade group’s meeting served as a forum for the three Democratic Buncombe County district attorney candidates: current DA Todd Williams, prosecutor and former Assistant DA Doug Edwards and assistant public defender Courtney Booth. (Attorney Joe Bowman […]
Letter: Want a better city? Do your part
“So for local businesses, pay your workers more and within a couple of weeks, ‘crime’ will start to decline.”
Letter: Capital of WNC has problems
“Moving out of this mess in 30 days. Y’all can have it. Going somewhere clean and quiet.”
Letter: We don’t feel safe in Asheville
“I live in Asheville, and I’m wondering why people care more about the homeless than the police who are deciding to quit because of the people in charge not backing them up, and [people] running around shooting up places?”
Letter: Act now to quell violent crime
“The city of Asheville and Buncombe County have about one year to quell their growing violent crime and nascent street gang problem.”