Substantial opinion letters such as those in your June 23 issue are why I’ll turn first to the Xpress in Asheville or Bill Moss’ Lightning in Hendersonville for thoughtful attention to local issues.
The increasingly cloned Citizen Times and Times-News could learn from your example. Thanks for giving your letter writers enough space to develop their views.
— Bill Moore
Hendersonville
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Tangentially: when did the ‘Daily Planet’ as reactionary right-wing as the ‘Tribune’ was, and when did the ‘Tribune’ become more softly conservative than it once was? It’s sort of weird that the Daily Planet is now aligned with the Hendersonville Lightning.