Letters to the editor

Mumpower’s drug-prohibition policy won’t work As a retired officer, I would like to spare the taxpayers of Asheville a million dollars and false hopes. All law-enforcement professionals know that every drug dealer ever arrested or killed is quickly replaced. The only net effect of an arrest is the taxpayers have to build another prison. We … Read more

Let the voters decide

Do you know why Ralph Nader was not on North Carolina’s presidential ballot in 2000, and why he most likely won’t be again this year? Do you know why, in partisan races in North Carolina, you have no more than three choices — a Democrat, a Libertarian and a Republican? North Carolina’s ballot-access restrictions are … Read more

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