“To have a negative ‘Best Local Villain’ category is in direct contrast to that greater, positive intention and leaves readers with no meaningful explanation and the ‘winner’ with no means to defend him/herself.”
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Letter: School staffer doesn’t deserve ‘Best Of’ vilification
“I know from personal experience that she strives to create positive, inclusive and quality education for all Asheville City Schools students.”
Letter: Xpress fills the local Opinion void
“In those precious column inches, you are a genuine local newspaper.”
Letter: More opinion content, please
“I miss things that are suddenly no longer appearing in the Citizen Times (after 16 years, I am thinking of surrendering my subscription) and wish your paper would publish more editorials and letters to the editor.”
Letter: Xpress should broaden letters’ focus
“I would encourage you to expand it to cover national and international issues so that writers of letters to the editor have more topics they can speak to, and your readers will be exposed to more food for thought.”
Letter: Applauding county pay increases
“I applaud the raise in pay. The cost of living is outrageous for all and especially those paying for those who do not need assistance, just lazy.”
Nonprofit business model may offer stability to local newsrooms
Xpress sat down with the heads of two local nonprofit news organizations to learn how the business model compares to its for-profit cousin and whether the concept offers a sustainable solution to an industry struggling to hang on.
Letter: Thanks for the music coverage and scene
“Just a quick kudos for the AVL music biz cover story [‘Under Review: Is Asheville Truly One of the Nation’s Top Music Cities?’ April 20, Xpress]. I kinda dig music, to the tune of six decades.”
Letter: No more hotels!
“Back in 2001, downtown was not cluttered with tall commercial buildings such as hotels catering to tourists.”
Letter: Thanks for the smile
“As a childless divorcee, I had to chuckle at Bettina Freese’s unintentionally funny remark: ‘I’ve had children, and it was more pain than I’d ever even imagined.’”
Letter: Bravo for reporting on vaccine side effects
“Vaccine injury is almost a taboo topic in polite society these days without getting the dreaded label of anti-vax.”
Letter: Present the whole picture of COVID-19 vaccines
“You have a responsibility to your readers and the community to report the facts and the whole story.”
Letter: COVID-19 vaccine adverse events need more analysis
“The COVID-19 vaccines were deployed because of the clear evidence of the serious effects of COVID-19 infections and adequate evidence that, in the short term, the benefit of the vaccines in preventing serious COVID-19 infections was great and their serious adverse effects rates were sufficiently low to justify widespread use.”
Letter: Thanks for focus on vaccine side effects and more
“I, like many others, also want to congratulate you on the thorough article about underreported vaccine side effects.”
Letter: All across for crossword puzzle
“Please stop printing the crossword vertically. It makes life just that much more difficult for us bathroom solvers.”
Letter: Maintaining a free society
“With all debate and discussion against the pseudo-vaccine jab stifled, your article took an act of courage.”
Letter: Boost the readability of Xpress
“I understand that fewer pages cost less to produce, but how many more pages would it take to use 11-point copy that is much easier to read?”
Letter: Women need to be included in entrepreneurial ecosystem
“Women need to be mainstreamed into the high-growth, scalable, fundable entrepreneurial ecosystem.”
Letter: Animal rescue groups have big impact on WNC
“Our community is fortunate to have so many impactful groups working on behalf of animals, as the need for help is large in Western North Carolina.”
Give!Local aims high in its seventh year
This season, Give!Local donors could help Asheville’s one-stop platform for philanthropy top $1 million. Since Mountain Xpress launched the annual campaign in 2015, the community has helped raise over $750,000, benefiting more than 100 area nonprofits.
Citizen guide to land development coming in January
As part of the Local News Ideas-to-Action Series, the Virginia-based national media nonprofit American Press Institute awarded Xpress a $9,300 grant to create a guide to local government decision-making for land development. The guide will cover the stages of review that projects face on their way from concept to final approval, what aspects are considered at each step and what avenues exist for public input.