Volunteers from United Way who recently built a wheelchair ramp with Mountain Housing Opportunities for an elderly, disabled homeowner in Arden. “It means so much to me to have the help I need to stay independent,” the home owner, Charlotte, shares. Mountain Housing Opportunities is a nonprofit community-development corporation that serves more than 450 households […]
Author: Webmaster
Showing 6280-6300 of 9872 results
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 08/08/07
• Affordable-housing advocates put out of work by declining home prices
• Commentary: Does collective responsibility prohibit analysis of bio-ethical equality at the grassroots level?
• Getting ready for a new school year
• Christian bumper sticker in purgatory
• Pet of the Week
• News Briefs
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 08/01/07
• In a world awash in upside-down flagism, only one man can dispense Buncombe-style justice
• Local man finds holy image in potato chip
• Mountain Xpress Advertising: it works!
• Kid Care with Arnold
• Pet of the week
Still big, but not so easy
There’s an unattributed quote written in mosaic at the end of my sidewalk that reads: “To be an artist is never to avert your eyes.” Detail from “Power Down,” mixed media, by Thomas Mann. It’s been a long time now since we watched while the citizens of one of the world’s most uniquely beautiful cities […]
Rasputina: on call
The weight of the world fell on Melora Creager all at once. Weight of the world: Rasputina’s Melora Creager troubles herself about the heavy stuff on her new album. “Like all in one day,” says the leader and principal cellist of Brooklyn chamber-rock band Rasputina. She found out “that September 11th was kind of screwy; […]
Gallery gossip
• Have you seen the new gallery at the airport? Arnold Wengrow reports that he viewed the work—mostly by UNCA students—on his way to London recently. He offers this astounding endorsement: “I saw the graduate show at the Royal Academy of Arts and was struck by how much better trained the UNCA students appear to […]
On and off course
A few years ago, I bought a disc. Not a Frisbee, mind you, because the disc in question was specially designed for disc golf. So close: Asheville’s Pat Farnsworth tries for a long “putt” at the city of Asheville’s Richmond Hill disc-golf course. It wasn’t just any disc, either. It was a Discraft XS long-range […]
The politics of big
The challenge facing any sizable political community is to figure out how to enjoy the efficiency that comes from delegating political responsibility to elected officials without abrogating citizens’ responsibility to remain at least minimally involved in public affairs. When fewer people are involved in decision-making, government can act more quickly. But without a certain level […]
I’d like you to meet my friends
For 19 years, I have lived with the Spanish-speaking persons of Western North Carolina. I have been on the farms and in the factories with these persons in almost every mountain county. I have worshipped the Lord with them in church houses, in farmhouses, in trailers and under the stars of the beautiful Blue Ridge […]
Keep showing up—our day will come
The Madison County Planning Board held its monthly meeting at the courthouse on Monday evening, July 23, in Marshall. On the agenda were two major subdivision cases that were holdovers from the June meeting. The first, a major subdivision request off Beauty Spot Cove and Puncheon Fork Road in Mars Hill, was provisionally approved until […]
We’ll suit you to a tea
We were dismayed to read the letter to the editor by Heidi Fox [“Prisoner of Starbucks?,” July 18] concerning filtered water in local coffee shops in Asheville. We, like many other locally owned and operated coffee shops in Asheville, do filter the water at the shop. In fact, we change the filters several times a […]
The new congressional math
There was a time in Washington when decisions were based on what was best for the country. Senate and Congress once understood the demands of the voting public. We believed Washington took into consideration what we the people wanted. The ideals and solutions our nation’s representatives debated illustrated their inner-core belief. We trusted they would […]
When will they ever learn?
The article about about trichloroethylene contamination from the old CTS plant [“Fail-Safe?: Hazardous-waste Site Falls Through Regulatory Cracks,” July 11] is ominously reminiscent of the tragic leukemia deaths of children in Woburn, Mass., in the ‘50s and ‘60s, as chronicled in Jonathan Harr’s 1995 book, A Civil Action. The Woburn clusters of leukemia cases were […]
Living wage is badly needed here
I am writing in response to the article “Up from Poverty” [Commentary, July 18]. I am a 24-year-old college student who has lived in Asheville all my life. It took me a while to decide what I wanted to do with my life. I’m now attending A-B Tech, pursuing a degree in medical billing and […]
Development 101
Continuing the dialogue in response to “Mourning the Mountain” [Letters, July 11], I must say that I regret no one has informed the writer or her supporters that preserving land in large, undeveloped parcels is outmoded thinking. There is no profit in such foolishness, and in the interest of keeping Asheville and the surrounding area […]
New girl in town already knows the drill
Thank you, Mountain Xpress, for H. Byron Ballard’s commentary on annexation [“The Farm at the Bottom of the Lake,” July 18]. I read with interest her perspective as someone who spent her youth in east Buncombe. At age 59, I fell off the world and into the bosom of Asheville. My fall wasn’t a stumble, […]
Presenting the key to the prison
In response to “Prisoner of Starbucks” [Letters, July 18]: I have the key to your prison, and it’s called Caffiend 24-Hour Coffee and Espresso. I can assure you that our water is filtered, and we offer over a hundred teas to choose from—in addition to our exceptional coffee. I find it hard to believe that […]
Say what? I can’t hear you!
Ah, the sounds of summer: the Saturday morning chatter at Pritchard Park, a quiet bike ride on a country road—but wait! What’s that I hear off in the distance? A jackhammer? A squadron of attack helicopters? Oh, it’s just another motorcycle with a ridiculously loud and obnoxious tailpipe. I thought there were laws against noise […]
Sorting the myths and facts
Jerry Russom’s misinformed and, by his own admission, sarcastic letter “Give Him a Chance” [July 18] was just another sad example of how disinformation and personal attacks continue to plague American citizens who are still seeking the truth behind Israel’s unprovoked attack of the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967. Russom offered no sources or […]
Twisted logic leads us astray
I’m writing in response to Jerry Russom’s statements [“Give Him a Chance,” July 18] regarding Israel and Martin Luther King Jr. Regardless of why opinions originally expressed in the Asheville Citizen-Times are being discussed in the Mountain Xpress, let me clear up Martin Luther King’s supposed statement about anti-Zionism. What Mr. Russom refers to is […]
Transfer taxes just aren’t fair
The state legislature is in the process of developing a budget, and here is one bad idea that’s being considered: a new transfer tax on the sale of property in North Carolina. Why would it be fair to tax one group of people—those selling their property—to pay for infrastructure and services that benefit everyone? I […]