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Duke substation relocation would force cuts for payoff
Since Duke Power (Duke Energy Progress) appears to have the right to build their substation next to the (Isaac Dickson Elementary) school, the operative question for council is: what other city spending are you willing to cut in order to pay Duke Power to relocate the substation.
Another relevant question though is how much can childless taxpayers save by encouraging health-conscious parents to pay for their own private school in order to avoid EMFs (electromagnetic fields)?
ALAN DITMORE
Leicester
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ditmore added the following postscript to his letter.
Why on earth do I know more about the platforms of next year’s candidates than I do about those of THIS year’s candidates???
Something is VERY wrong with local news coverage and investigative journalism.
In 2013, I belatedly found a young Woodfin candidate, Andrea Boyer, to volunteer for, but for the most part I was too late in finding her and most of the volunteer work was already done.
Meanwhile I am being inundated with, and distracted by, this cult of personality type presidential coverage that I will not need for nearly a year.
WHO ARE THIS YEAR’S ANDREA BOYERS OF WNC??? Payne perhaps??? What is her platform???? Potential volunteers need to find this out FAST!
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ditmore’s “Payne” reference is to Lavonda Nicole Payne, a political newcomer who lives on Ascott Point Circle, is a 22-year-old long-haul truck driver. The Asheville native recently announced her plans to run for a seat on City Council. As for her platform, she has said she wants to see the city help young people develop skills that will get them jobs, improve public transportation and push people to get off social services.
Choir president praises newspaper for coverage
Earlier this week (mid-June), I held a called meeting for the Board of Directors of the Reuter Center Singers at my house. Its purpose was to review our past year and to plan for the 2015-16 choir year.
We had an excellent year, culminating with the May concerts that featured music of the Beach Boys and the Beatles.
The concerts were a lot of fun and I was glad that you (the Daily Planet) were able to catch the beginning of one of them.
In particular, you saw the skit by our “Beatles” and their wonderful attire. It was great to receive your email request for photos of the group and I was glad we were able to get a variety of shots to you.
Of course, it was even better to see them featured on the front page of the June edition of the Daily Planet. I was picking up “take-out” at the Bellagio Bistro restaurant and saw your paper as I was going in the front door. It stopped me cold and I am guilty of taking six copies. I shared them with the board members before the meeting, but kept one for myself.
Thank you for your continued interest in the music of the RCS. For the past four years, we have focused on music of our “younger years” (1950s and ‘60s), when we were in high school and college.
It has been fun for us and our audiences as we “went back in time” to the music of the individuals and groups that meant so much to us.
Thank you again foryour interest in our chorus and for the featured article in your June issue.
ROBERT H. “BOB” DUTNELL
President, Reuter Center Singers
Asheville
Congress urged to allow Ex-Im Bank to expire
Ex-Im Bank picks winners and losers in the economy, invites cronyism and corruption, and distorts the free market.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner should not cave to a Democrat minority.
Vote no on the re-authorization of the Export-Import Bank that is killing private sector investment. The bank is corporate welfare for billionaire companies like Boeing and Bechtel, allows bailouts for failed companies like Solyndra, and funds companies in Russia and China. Let the 1934 FDR program for cronies expire at the end of June.
Mitch McConnell and John Boehner need to adhere to their Constitutional oath and Republican Party platform and support limited government and fiscal responsibility for a change.
JANE BILELLO
Chair, Asheville Tea Party and ATPAC
Hendersonville
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bilello is chairman, of the Asheville Tea Party and Asheville Tea PAC.
Boehner's GOP-led House ripped for willful surrender
Getting things done is not what a government is for; it is for protecting the rights of individual citizens and not groups divided for the conquering.
Providing this president more powers as in the panoply of extra-Constitutional powers packed onto a so-called trade bill is simply another willful surrender following the Boehner House’s passing the revenue raising authority to this executive. More surrenders will surely come as more things get done.
These are acts of a King’s ministers and are as Intolerable as any ever were. McConnell and Boehner will be remembered as are Thomas Gage and John Murray, Earl of Dunmore.
BILL O’CONNOR
Publisher, HayfieldPress.com
Hendersonville
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