“The issues we’re facing are related to corporate and management leadership decisions in service to profit.”
Pondering waste in its many forms
“The onslaught started a few months ago, when my partner and I joined the City of Asheville’s composting program. The chore of taking our slop bucket to the East Asheville Library branch has been a revelation — of maggots.”
Letter: Haw Creek compromise could be win-win
“Haw Creek wants Kevin Jackson to sit down, seriously negotiate the issues and reach a mutually agreeable compromise that will provide desperately needed housing while respecting the needs of the community.”
Mean green
My Story: Paddling upstream in the Amazon (b)rainforest
“I am a modestly successful author of 17 books, only one of which ever generated a steady income. (Hence the modesty.)”
Letter: Council must listen to community on Haw Creek project
“Over 2,000 residents and community members have expressed extreme concern for its lack of consideration for connectivity, the natural environment, affordability and infrastructure impact.”
Big gulp
Letter: Beware of infected ticks
” See ‘The Quiet Epidemic’ and please ask your representatives and senators to give North Carolina free tick testing, an accurate tick count and education in the schools.”
Letter: Zoning can promote intergenerational benefits
“Zoning changes to encourage multifamily/multigenerational occupancy serve the economic and social needs of older and younger adult residents in particular.”
Letter: City Council should get priorities straight
“Our children are our/their first priority and not a public loo, which will probably not be used by the tourists but by the homeless folks who hang out in the area.”
Letter: A history of embracing challenge
“I hope we continue to find, face and overcome challenges as individuals and as communities.”
High times in the ’70s: A Jew in Asheville
“For the next 24 hours, we had armed agents guarding the gate and the driveway, and lookouts toting automatic weapons were posted on the roof.”
Stock and trade
Letter: It’s time to get money out of politics
“While some claim they support Israel on ideological grounds, money makes it more difficult to evaluate what is truly motivating one’s motives and actions.”
Letter: Fossil fuels aren’t the only problem
“It turns out that the best thing we can do for the Earth is to reduce our consumption of meat, at least factory-farmed meat — which is most of the meat in our grocery stores — or eliminate it from our diets completely.”
Why I can’t support the Woodfin de-annexation request
“The decision to begin collecting a stormwater fee was made because, prior to 2019 and 2020, Woodfin had essentially just gotten away with not satisfying the mandatory obligations of its MS4 permit.”
Letter: Haw Creek rezoning foes likely don’t have a chance
“Greater density development in the Haw Creek neighborhood must be respectfully designed, including leaving some old-growth tree areas, effective visual shielding and more realistic assessment of flooding impacts.”
Inn error
Letter: Still waiting for justice
“Last month, Superior Court Judge Gary Gavenus rejected Chandler’s latest appeal — despite having found that prosecutors withheld favorable evidence and presented interview summaries with ‘outright fabrications.’”
Letter: Next up: Change Asheville’s name
“With this ruling, we must further the agenda to transform this place as only changing its name will accomplish!”
Letter: A vote for increasing parking rates downtown
“The current meter rates are too cheap to encourage use of the city parking structures and lots.”