“The bottom line is: Without higher salaries for educators, not only will our students suffer, but so will the entire community.”
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Letter: Education is in crisis
“We have to value our teachers who are tired, underpaid and caught in the crosshairs of a contentious cultural and political climate.”
Letter: You pay a lot to live in the mountains
“Now that I’ve moved to Greensboro, a three-hour drive away, I’m saving $300 a month in rent for where I am now.”
House rules
Letter: Perplexed by shortsighted, myopic opinions
“Does no one see these things affect each other?”
Letter: A gentrified and homogenized Asheville
“If the ratio of wages to housing cost doesn’t get under control for the creative working schlubs of this town, we will all have to go.”
Letter: The dissatisfied move in
“The creativity of our small city enthralled the people from the North and South. But soon the starving artists had to move away themselves because they no longer could live here.”
Letter writer: Let’s increase sales tax for affordable housing
“I moved here in June from West Virginia and have fallen in love with the diversity and beauty of our area. Unfortunately, part of that diversity is a disparity of economic means.”