If a supermarket advertises a recall to its patrons on its own Web site, it is entirely reasonable to believe that it has completed the recall from its own shelves, removing the suspect items completely or replacing them. This was not the case at our local supermarket on March 17, when we bought food for … Read more
The Asheville/Buncombe County League of Women Voters has become concerned about the degree to which citizens of this community understand the workings of the system of justice. Discussions with local leaders have revealed that many citizens, but particularly minority groups, have less than total confidence in the equity of the legal system. In the case … Read more
Why have we done so little as a nation to combat global warming? Everyone from the National Academy of Sciences to the National Association of Evangelicals tells us that it’s high time we went to work cutting carbon-dioxide emissions, but nothing happens in Washington. The oil and coal companies have spent hundreds of millions of … Read more
Kudos to Kern Stafford, a pharmacist who wrote [“Reality Veganism Gets Results,” Letters, March 28] concerning his conversion to a vegan diet three years ago instead of getting a bypass heart operation, which one physician recommended. Thankfully, a second opinion steered him in a different direction. I’ve been an adherent of the vegan lifestyle for … Read more
A recent letter [“Progressively Paving Paradise,” April 4] adds to many I have read in the past year that attack our City Council on the topic of development. It seems that this issue is one of the greatest dividing forces among our “progressive” community. When downtown development is proposed, groups of citizens within our community … Read more
