In his Saturday letter to the editor, Jim Veltri supports desalination. He is missing many facts. Desalination plants aren’t discussed more frequently because they’re not a realistic option. For a few ...

The problem is not retirement age (5/28/25 Allison Schrager). Taxing all income, municipal included, at the same rates with SS/MC deductions, without caps, would do much to resolve the SS/MC funds ...

Thanks to Marge Popp for her As I See It column, “In Benton County, them that has, gets!,” on 6/29. She called out Benton County for its huge numbers of managers and their high salaries (while cutting ...

This responds to Mike Carroll’s Guest Commentary “The socialists are coming! Bonnie and Mamdani ride with Clyde.” Carroll describes the depredations of monopoly capitalism on our economy, in terms of ...

To the editor: There is an old story about a tractor-trailer getting stuck under a low bridge and it couldn’t go forward or back up. Neither the driver or engineers could figure out how to the get the ...

UNC Asheville, like all the UNC institutions, is facing reduced funding from a GOP-led General Assembly that is eager to send public money to private K-12 schools but not so willing to fund the higher ...

Thank goodness for the wisdom of Joseph Stansbury, who wrote that the Southwest should look to the Columbia River to solve the water problem (Wednesday letter to the editor). This obvious but ...