You can’t hike with your dog in the Smokies. You can’t build a wood fire in the Shining Rock Wilderness. When you’re in DuPont State Forest, mountain bikes whiz past you. Why is each place so different and who makes the rules anyway? Bears mentioning: Campsites in the Smokies have a system for keeping packs […]
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Grace
My Baptist friends tell me there is only one way. There is only one true belief, only one true answer. All the words put together are the Word, and it means what it says—nothing more and nothing less. My atheist friends tell me I am a fool for believing in something bigger than myself. Everything, […]
Community can help
When a loss of life is experienced in our community, the waves of grief are wide and deep. This [was] felt by many of us recently at the loss of Kim Horton, whose life was tragically taken in a car accident. It seems that every year or so, there’s a terrible tragedy in our community […]
Giving due credit
As a member of RiverLink and a former member of the Asheville Greenway Commission, I was delighted to see your story “Pounding the Ground” in the [Nov. 7] issue of the Mountain Xpress. The former EDACO property will add another much-needed link to the greenway from the French Broad River Park to Carrier Park. However, […]
Food bank needs feeding
I am writing to encourage Mountain Xpress readers to support the Senate farm bill (S. 2302) and floor amendments to it that provide additional funding for the Food Stamp and the Emergency Food Assistance Programs (TEFAP). Specifically, urge Sens. Dole and Burr to support further increases in food-stamp benefits and steps to expand access for […]
Blame the stay-at-home progressives
What a sad commentary the recent City Council election results are on Asheville progressives’ political commitment. Before the election, narrow loser Bryan Freeborn publicly warned how critical this election was to maintaining the progressive majority on City Council. … We lost the opportunity to install the only candidate for City Council—Elaine Lite—who was demonstrably and […]
We need local, scientific polls
One major reason why I believe local politics is in such a sad and corruptible state, and why politicians and even us political activists are so out of touch with the voting public, is a noticeable lack of scientific or even cheaper semi-scientific polls on the local level or even about local issues. Polls are […]
Who rules: FCC or public?
A front-page report in The New York Times (“Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners,” Oct. 18) revealed that the FCC is moving forward with a secret timeline to vote on sweeping changes to media-ownership rules. This is just the most recent in a long series of FCC moves to avoid public scrutiny. I was […]
What about our garden?
What a sorry state of affairs. The firing of Cecil Bothwell saddens us. Not only do we lose the top-notch reporter—but our outstanding gardening advisor. The spirit of the Mountain Xpress won’t be the same. — Grace and Tony Hunter Fairview
Mr. Bothwell and the clergy
It seems to me that Cecil Bothwell and his readers deserve the truth of the matter. Hiding behind privacy only evades the question and looks suspicious, particularly with regards to the release of Bothwell’s book. Especially by a paper that has such high objectives. For too many years, the founding principles of naturally inherent or […]
Election dejection blues
I believe that Asheville is one of the most enlightened cities per capita in America. I also think it’s now clear to most enlightened folk that to achieve a truly sustainable civilization, we need carefully controlled levels of development, population and pollution. So how do I explain our recent election in which Elaine Lite, the […]
Consider Charleston as model
I’m not against building hotels in downtown Asheville. Why couldn’t we have small hotels in structures that are in keeping with the historic character and human scale of downtown Asheville, such as the Sawyer building on Coxe Avenue? This proposed hotel called The Ellington would be completely opposite to the character of our downtown. If […]
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 11/21/07
• Greenlife to sponsor Monster Truck rally
• Mumpower proposes ‘Circle the Wagons’ initiative
• Tommy Smooch’s Pretentious beer column
• Asheville Alibi Cartoon
• News Briefs
Artist profile: Greg Decker
Using austere color palates and dynamic figures for a holistic effect, Greg Decker’s work expresses a subtle depth of emotion.
First the Big Room, then the big time
It’s the plight of the local musician: always wanting a chance to show their talents to a hometown audience, yet always being relegated to bar scene. It’s the out-of-town bands that tend to get the spotlight and the best slots at the biggest clubs. And in a scene where where you’ve played can mean nearly […]
Altered carbon
With global warming now an accepted fact of 21st-century existence, we are finally starting to think seriously about how we as a nation might turn it around, or at least slow it down. Global warming is largely due to the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere, leading to the well-known greenhouse […]
Continentally divided
Since moving to the apex of the Eastern Continental Divide, I’ve developed ambivalent feelings toward the formidable road that intersects it: N.C. Highway 9. No wheel goes unturned on this convoluted gateway to the area’s mushrooming gated communities and the pleasures of Lake Lure and Chimney Rock. There’s no lack of traffic, from the countless […]
Show a little respect
Years ago, shortly after my family’s arrival in Asheville, I met Cecil Bothwell for the first time. He was in Pritchard Park, pleading passionately with the people. It was a political rally—something most independent publishers disallow their staff to engage in. Mr. Bothwell was saying something about “wake up America” and “get out there and […]
Shall we end up like Atlanta?
So Atlanta could run out of water in a matter of weeks. Wake up call, folks? … As we watch this area explode with development at every turn [while] the powers that be keep insisting that growth is good, shouldn’t we look at the trouble Atlanta is in and take heed? In Al Gore’s An […]
Step out, look up
On Saturday, Nov. 3, I attended the Bike Ballot rally at Asheville Pizza on Coxe Avenue. Forty or so of us huddled around drinking beer and talking with candidates about an alternative future for Asheville that doesn’t include a treeless skyline and log-jammed roadways. I’m not a radical—[I] drive a car most days of the […]
It’s not just vets who honor the flag
As a veteran of the often-forgotten Korean War, I am pleased that a memorial to all veterans will be installed in the new Pack Square Park. However, I couldn’t agree more with [the article by] David Forbes [“The Writing on the Wall,” Nov. 7 Xpress] that the poem, “It is the Veteran,” is unsuitable as […]