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Kids Issue 2016: Worlds to conquer and more
“I love the feeling I get when I’ve found someone who looks past my flaws and sees who I truly am.”
Kids Issue 2016: Heart wide open and more
“The way I let my body flow, be free to just let go and leap in a dance, is what makes me ‘me.'”
Kids Issue 2016: Perfect living and more
“Who am I? I am winter bonfires and chasing little kids and little animals. Afternoons spent out in the woods.”
Kids Issue 2016: With my own two hands
“Mom works, gets ready, cleans up, relaxes, goes to sleep. She has beautiful hands.”
Emma residents envision stable housing, healthy schools
By Andrea Golden Dulce Lomita Mobile Home Cooperative began in June 2013 with the purchase of a six-unit mobile home park in the Emma neighborhood. Members of the cooperative, who had been renting mobile homes in and around the area, created the cooperative as an opportunity for our families for first-time homeownership. But we also […]
Kids Issue 2016: Sand above the treasure and more
“I am from the wonderment of finding family out of friends who ran out in the rain on that hot summer day.”
The mystery of Sgt. Daniel A. Kanipe: Did WNC legend ride for Custer or just ride away?
“Journalists and writers everywhere sought out Daniel A. Kanipe, eager as they were for firsthand accounts of Custer and the battle, both of which had assumed mythic proportions by the turn of the century. “
Making a difference in a child’s life with Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC
“If you’re reading this, I hope you’ll search your soul to see if you can find there the commitment to help a young person. If not, please talk to your friends, clergy and civic groups to help us locate more volunteers.”
Success equation: We need leadership to support investment in quality early childhood programs
“Let’s elevate this bipartisan issue during 2016 elections. Encourage candidates to support the high-yield investment that quality early childhood programs can bring to our parents, children and communities.”
Duke Energy misled regulators at meeting over new Asheville-area gas plant
“We remain very concerned by the closed, pro-Duke and unconstitutional process in this case, including the lack of regulatory scrutiny of Duke Energy assertions.”
Confessions of a liberal college professor
“The mean-spirited abuse hurled at college students and professors alike reflects a dying political paradigm coupled with a fear of the young.”
Why not natural gas for WNC electricity?
“If Duke makes a large financial investment now in an unnecessarily large natural gas plant, that plant will have to continue to emit carbon dioxide for many decades to justify its construction.”
Faking it: Why Asheville needs new design guidelines
“When serious, authentic architecture is rejected in favor of simulacra, we exchange reality for a mythical past where everything is made to resemble what might have been.”
Not so fast: Tell Duke Energy to put the brakes on expansion plans
“In the current rapidly evolving energy environment, building a plant that’s bigger than the absolute minimum required, and doing it sooner than it’s really needed, is risky. Taking such a risk when better options are readily available is nothing short of foolhardy.”
Call for recreation areas sparks tensions in forest process
Tensions have boiled over within the Stakeholders Forum that has been seeking to build harmony on the Pisgah-Nantahala Forest plan revision after more than 40 organizations signed a memorandum of understanding supporting the creation of two National Recreation Areas in Western North Carolina.
Make ‘Carolina in my Mind’ N.C.’s official rock song
“So where is North Carolina’s official rock song? It’s staring us right in the face! This beloved tune was written and performed by a talent that was sharpened and informed by a childhood spent in North Carolina.”
NC WARN to Duke Energy: Justify gas plant in Asheville or withdraw the application
“There is far too much at stake – the climate crisis, the state economy and the very principles necessary for a democratic society to function – for this process to move forward under the shadow created by Sen. [Tom] Apodaca’s bill limiting regulatory and public review to 45 days.”
Brevard, North Carolina self-proclaims itself new epi-center of Groundhog (White Squirrel) Day festivities
Press release from Ann Sharpsteen: BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA (January 29, 2016) – For the second year in a row, Brevard’s beloved ambassador white squirrel, Pisgah Pete, will take the helm at the City of Brevard’s Groundhog Day festivities, dubbed by local residents “White Squirrel Day,” instead. The cute furry town mascot will not only predict […]
Homeless need a hand up, not handouts
BY JOHN KLOECKNER I am currently homeless in Asheville. Although I don’t seek services from any organization apart from an occasional meal, clean clothes, a cup of coffee or a shower, I’m familiar with the services available and the various churches and other organizations that assist local people in need. I come from a middle-class […]
Duke Energy and the priority of profit
“If the world becomes a wasteland of coal plants, polluted lakes and melted ice caps, what good is money?”