With the opening of the 2009-2010 session of the N.C. General Assembly, several bills of particular interest to Western North Carolina legislators and constituents went into the starting gate on Jan. 29.
Year: 2009
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Blog Log: The week in local blogging
This week, bloggers hit the streets.
Lead testing rules under Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act
New lead testing rules set to take effect Feb. 10 have local book sellers, toy retailers, crafters and even libraries scrambling to understand how the rules apply to them. The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act imposes stringent new lead testing rules on all products made for children 12 and under. The regulations affect businesses that […]
Enforcement of new lead testing rules halted for one year
The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission on Friday agreed to wait one year before enforcing new lead testing rules for the makers and importers of products for children 12 and under. The law, set to take effect Feb. 10, has had Asheville area book sellers, toy retailers, crafters and even libraries worried about the rules’ impact on them.
Controversies continue over URTV transparency
While a recent release asserted that URTV follows open-meetings law, a video has surfaced with statements made by Executive Director Pat Garlinghouse at the public-access channel’s last board meeting that misrepresent that law, according a North Carolina Press Association attorney — and some board members say they were not consulted in a press release that claimed to speak on their behalf.
Sad day for some Asheville Phish fans
Tickets for Phish’s June 9 show sold out in what seemed like seconds; despite the Civic Center’s 400-seat allotment. An error in the system released the tickets before Asheville fans could buy them, said the Civic Center’s executive director.
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Madmen and movies — a fleeting look at loquacious loons
Madness has been a staple of movies as long as there have been movies, and it affords us an absolute treasure trove of great moments in film, because — at least so far as the cinema is concerned — madmen are amazingly gregarious.
PopAsheville’s fans
Seen around PopAsheville, Jan. 15-19, 2009 Photos by Jonathan Welch. For more PopAsheville images, click here.
WNC News Roundup
What’s making news in the mountains this week: A gospel-singing great will celebrate his 100th birthday; a Henderson County native prepares to help put on the Super Bowl; casino talks continue; and much more.
Book Report: The Life of the Skies
Bestselling author Jonathan Rosen comes to Asheville to discuss his atypical birding book.
Winter brights
Kevin and Phillip, both in bright colors on a warm January day. Of his eye-popping footwear Phillip says, “Everyone likes them. I don’t know why.”
URTV will change oath
A controversial oath administered to URTV board members at their last meeting will be “clarified” to address concerns about a confidentiality clause, a press release from the public access channel announced Wednesday.
The I-26 debate
Amid questions and calls from audience members to come to an agreement, including one to end “this bulls**t,” Asheville City Council member Brownie Newman and Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Rick Lutovsky squared off at an Leadership Asheville Forum debate over different plans for the controversial I-26 connector.
First in line for Phish tickets
Undaunted by wind and cold, a small crowd of Phish faithful camped outside the Asheville Civic Center Wednesday, waiting for tickets to go on sale Friday morning.
Lessing discusses photo essay on evangelicals
Asheville-based documentary photographer Scott Lessing talks about some of his photos featured in this week’s Mountain Xpress cover story.
This weekend on a shoestring
Indie-duo Osaka Pearl launches a CD, Christian rockers raise money for a local mission, metal takes over the Boiler Room and satirical songsters The Surrogate Squad play a show in their car.
For homeless shelter, a night of music
Homeless shelters don’t get a lot of in-house entertainment, but Stu and Janna Zonder are out to change that.
Pat & Alli’s Weekly Winners
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Miller refuses to recuse on room tax vote
Backed up by the city’s attorney at Asheville City Council’s Jan. 27 meeting, Council member and Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce VP Kelly Miller declined to recuse himself from a motion to include a hotel/motel tax request on Council’s legislative agenda.
Friday afternoon
Austin Geisler and Emily Freeman on Patton Ave. Emily bought her knit hat at the WNC Farmer’s Market.
Buncombe Commissioners
Activists call for still greater government transparency Property-tax collections down slightly Activists across the political spectrum have long maintained that the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ refusal to televise public comment along with the rest of its meetings has hampered local-government transparency. And at their Jan. 20 meeting, the commissioners unanimously approved a series of […]