Commentary
The times they are a changin’ Tis week we said goodbye to our
long-time friends at IWANNA’s print department. I have been in the newspaper business going on 16 years, and ever since I’ve been in the business I’ve always dealt with IWANNA for printing my pub- lication. Tat ends this week with IWANNA moving their press op-
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erations to Fayetteville. We have located another printer
in Elizabethton, Tenn., but because of new logistics and printing costs, we are making changes. We print the Weaverville Tribune
and the Leicester Leader. Tey are distributed to over 100 locations in the North Buncombe, Madison County and Leicester communi- ties.
With the new changes in print-
ers, we are combining our publica- tions to cut costs and give a better product with more information to both the communities we serve. Both publications will continue,
but each edition will include news and information from both areas. Tis means more pages in each is-
product over several weeks, but the Leicester edition will still have the Leicester Leader on the cover, and North Buncombe will still have the Weaverville Tribune on the cover. Tere will be one dramatic change
for Leicester Leader subscribers. Be- cause the Weaverville Tribune has a second-class mailing permit, it costs only a fraction to mail compared to the Leicester Leader, so those sub- scribers will receive the Weaverville Tribune issue that will contain the Leicester Leader inside. We hope that this explains most
of the changes you see in the publi- cations. Feel free to contact us any- time about these changes or any- thing else you have on your mind.
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16-page issue each week in Leic- ester and a 20- to 24-page issue in North Buncombe. Tat will change to a 28-page publication for both areas with news from Leicester and North Buncombe included.
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We will probably be tweaking the Letters to the Editor
Democrats are dropping the ball
Dear Editor, Although I think very highly of
the people who I know in the local Democratic Party, I’ve switched my voting registration from Democrat to Unaffiliated out of disappoint- ment with what the Democrats have been able to accomplish since they took over the House, the Sen- ate, and the Presidency, and with the continuing corrupt political system in which Democrats, such as Heath Shuler, as well as Republi- cans, continue to accept campaign contributions from corporations and special interest groups that are affected by the legislation they vote on. If this is not legalized bribery, it
is at least an obvious conflict of in- terest which turns over control of our system of government from the
people to the corporations and the wealthy. Also, as the Democrats are in
control of the Senate right now, they should abolish the undemo- cratic filibuster which requires a super majority vote for almost ev- ery major piece of legislation these days. If the Republicans, as ex- pected, try to filibuster that change of Senate rules, the Democrats should let them talk until they get exhausted and give up or are voted out of office for their undemocrat- ic, obstructionist tactics. We need affordable health care
for all, which can only happen with a public option. Te Democrats have not brought that about. We need the banks split up which are too big to fail and salaries and bo- nuses capped. Te Democrats have not brought that about. We need to stop killing people in Afghani- stan and Pakistan. Te Democrats have not brought that about. In
fact, they have made it worse. We need to have everyone doing use- ful, productive work who is capable of working -- using local, state and federal governments as the employ- ers of last resort. Te Democrats have not brought that about. We need to drastically cut the military budget to reduce the national debt and pay for more socially useful programs. Te Democrats have not brought that about. Over the years we have spent
more and more money on warfare rather than education. Te result is a nation that suffers from wide- spread ignorance. Tat, in turn, makes us less and less competitive with other major countries, none of which spend anything like we do on the military. And it also makes us uninformed, unthinking voters, which endangers our democracy.
Fred Flaxman Weaverville, NC
Greenway feasibility study Woodfin
A public meeting introducing the
French Broad River/N.C. Hwy. 251 Greenway Feasibility Study will be presented to the public between 4 pm and 7:30 pm on Sept. 2 at the Woodfin Neighborhood YMCA. Tis meeting is to provide initial
information about the study and to gather public input about the fea- sibility of a greenway in the study area that begins at Riverside Drive and Broadway to the Buncombe/
Madison County line. Te YMCA is located at 40
North Merrimon Avenue, Suite 101 in Woodfin. Developing a greenway has been
a topic of conversation in the recent months among North Buncombe municipal bodies. Woodfin offi- cials have been exploring ways to utilize the French Broad corridor and looking at securing the nec- essary easements for a greenway.
Weaverville Councilman Doug Dearth will represent the town on the Buncombe County Green- way Commission beginning next month, replacing the outgoing Jill Britton. For more information about the
meet, contact Lucy Crown 250- 4260 or email her at
lucy.crown@
buncombecounty.org.
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