Republican psychologist and ex-City Council member Carl Mumpower has misplaced his phobias. In his Feb. 17 Xpress commentary, he said he's alarmed that the city of Asheville is going to extend employee health-insurance benefits to the LGBT community, a "special interest group," thus "mortgaging our children's futures." I reckon Republican psychologists were similarly threatened by […]

We are now assured that Pack Square Park (with reduced water features due to post-Katrina plywood prices—but with the $450,000 Veterans’ Memorial “rock”) will, when finished, supposedly last 100 years or more. And it yet needs $1.5 million of the $2 million maintenance endowment to keep it going. But with the salary of the executive […]

Hidden from public scrutiny, behind the fence surrounding the new Pack Square Park, is a construction crew—maybe. No doubt this supposed crew has a supervisor with experience in construction or whatever should be happening in there. So I am at a loss when I try to picture just what “overseeing” Mr. Gary Giniat, the newly […]