A raid by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an Asheville-based defense contractor resulted in the arrest of 57 suspected-illegal immigrant workers, an ICE official told Xpress Tuesday afternoon.
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Filling the holes
City green-lights Civic Center roof replacement Some gated communities can expand City to help fund water hookups for affordable/green housing Through snow and rain and heat and gloom of night … it leaked. Over the years, the Asheville Civic Center’s roof—probably the ailing facility’s No. 1 structural woe—has gotten less than glowing press. Celebrities have […]
Mumpower: Cards? They don’t need no stinkin’ cards!
Republican congressional candidate (and Asheville City Council member) Carl Mumpower is planning a protest the morning of Saturday, June 28, in Hendersonville over a visit by the Mexican Consulate.
Mumpower’s the word
Beginning the evening with a somber group prayer and cautiously guarded optimism, friends, family and other supporters of GOP congressional candidate Carl Mumpower ended the night in banner-waving, balloon-floating joy as their candidate won a close race. Mumpower, 55, now faces the much more daunting task of unseating first-term incumbent Rep. Heath Shuler in the […]
Candidate: Carl Mumpower
Carl Mumpower Carl Mumpower Political party: Republican Residence: Asheville Occupation: Psychologist Education: B.A. psychology, St. Leo College; M.A. education, Western Carolina University; M.S.W. clinical social work, University of Georgia; Ph.D. Union Institute Political experience: Asheville City Council 6 years; vice mayor 2 years Endorsements: “The most important endorsement has come from my fellow Republicans. I’m […]
The challengers
This time two years ago, Democrat Heath Shuler was the upstart political neophyte hoping to unseat long-time incumbent Republican Charles Taylor for the 11th Congressional District seat. Swept into office on a wave of national support for Democrats, Shuler now is the one with a target squarely on his back. Despite an occasional and marked […]
GOP House hopefuls debate on WWNC this afternoon
The three candidates vying to run against Rep. Heath Shuler can be heard from 3 to 5 p.m. on 570 AM
Mumpower refuses to back down on FISA immunity
Bucking his own party, Asheville City Council member and 11th District Republican Congressional candidate Carl Mumpower proclaimed “I am not for sale” in a Good Friday press release decrying his party’s and the Bush administration’s attempts to grant retroactive immunity to telecoms as part of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act.
District 11 GOPers square off tonight
The three Republicans fighting for their party’s nomination to challenge Democratic Congressman Heath Shuler this November kick off the debate season tonight in downtown Asheville.
Asheville City Council
Asheville’s recreation centers will get increased security staffing, and the Asheville Police Department will hire two new officers charged with investigating gangs, City Manager Gary Jackson told Council members during their Oct. 23 meeting. Savings elsewhere in the department’s budget will pay for these positions, so no Council vote was needed. “We want to make […]
Armor announces for Congress
Highlands lawyer John Armor, who waged a failed bid in 2006 to wrest the GOP nomination for the 11th Congressional District seat from then-incumbent Charles Taylor, announced last week that he will try again. Armor may have an easier time of it than he did in 2006, when he lost to Taylor in the GOP […]
Asheville City Council
The Asheville City Council’s Oct. 16 meeting had all the elements of high drama—a controversial issue, an upcoming election, an overflow crowd, even a woman standing outside City Hall passing out placards decrying The Ellington. But in a scant 90 minutes, after hearing arguments for and against the planned downtown high-rise, Council members voted 6-1 […]
Armor announces for Congress
Highlands lawyer John Armor, who waged a failed bid in 2006 to wrest the GOP nomination for the 11th Congressional District seat from then-incumbent Charles Taylor, has announced he will try again.
For the birds: Mumpower, Jones hash it out in e-mails
Tuesday’s 6-1 vote in favor of The Ellington is done, but some Asheville City Council members are still scrapping over how the meeting went.
Dr. M.‘s immigration crusade
Individuals who have apparently taken it upon themselves to track and expose undocumented workers have found a friend in Carl Mumpower, who’s put their efforts to use in his ongoing campaign against illegal immigration. When the Asheville City Council member and congressional candidate caught wind of rumors that Sonopress, a digital-media manufacturer and one of […]
Hendersonville Republican announces run for Congress
Spence Campbell, chairman of the Henderson County Republican Party, has announced he plans to vie for the 11th District Congressional seat currently held by freshman Democrat Heath Shuler of Waynesville. Campbell, 63, is the second local Republican to announce, along with Asheville City Council member Carl Mumpower, whom Campbell expressed admiration for in a brief […]
Mum’s the wordsmith
Mumpower: Halting construction of North Shore Road is a “surrender to envirojackers”
Asheville City Council
With little commotion, the Asheville City Council rezoned Montford Commons on Sept. 25. The roughly 10-acre, 220-unit residential and commercial development on the edge of the historic district will now fall under the “urban village” designation, which allows for higher-density residential areas. Signing up: As its stores grow larger, Ingles argues it warrants more signage. […]
Candidate: Donna Bateman
Political party: Democrat Occupation: Retired benefits manager, National Maritime Union Education: Year-and-a-half of college Political experience: None Donors (top 3): None Endorsements: None 1) What are the best and worst steps City Council has taken in the past two years, and why? Best: “Nominating Carl Mumpower. Because he is trying to do a job that […]
The Gospel According to Jerry
Council member Carl Mumpower and I must have had similar upbringings, learning at home and later in the military that laws were made to be enforced, and violating them would bring swift justice. Our country is now overrun with millions of illegal immigrants who are thumbing their noses at Uncle Sam. They are sucking the […]
Asheville City Council
It was probably a long shot. After four months of controversy, it may have been too much to expect the Asheville City Council to approve The Ellington in one fell swoop. Despite several hours of presentations, public comment and deliberation at Council’s Sept. 11 meeting, the developers of the 300-foot-tall boutique hotel proposed for Biltmore […]