Supporters of the referendum to raise Buncombe County’s sales-tax by a quarter-cent to fund capital improvements at A-B Tech have a huge fundraising advantage going into the campaign’s final days.
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Local Matters: Occupy Asheville at City Hall — Council denies camping request
Xpress Senior News Reporter David Forbes offers highlights from the Oct. 25 Asheville City Council meeting, where Occupy Asheville demonstrators filled the room and asked for a place to camp.
Podcast produced by Margaret Williams. The theme music is “jam band spy song” by E. Lee.
Council refuses to let Occupy Asheville camp in public park, waives fees
At its Oct. 25 meeting, Asheville City Council voted to terminate Occupy Asheville’s encampment under the Lexington Avenue bridge by Oct. 28, while waiving fees the protesters had incurred. A request by protesters to get a curfew waiver to camp in public parks failed when only one Council member supported it.
Wells Fargo on Patton removes “Treasured Tree” that blocked new sign
Asheville-area citizens stand by their trees, as Shannon Tuch, assistant director at the city’s planning department, can confirm. When a contractor for the new Wells Fargo bank branch at Patton and Louisiana Avenues cut down the mature trees blocking the company’s new sign recently, Tuch started hearing “a lot of outrage from the community” regarding the cutting of a designated ‘Treasured Tree.’ Her office prepared a notice of violation tagged to a $2,900 fine against Wells Fargo — only to revoke it when the N.C. Department of Transportation got involved.
LIVE: Occupy Asheville returns to City Council, and more
For live dispatches from tonight’s Asheville City Council meeting, follow @DavidForbes or the hashtag #avlgov — or click through for our live feed. You’ll also find notes about tonight’s agenda.
A few thoughts on the beginning of early voting
A citizen votes. Always.
LIVE: Coverage of Oct. 20 Asheville City Council forum
Follow live Twitter coverage of tonight’s Asheville City Council candidate forum, held at the YWCA and focusing on making the city more inclusive, here.
LIVE: Coverage of Oct. 18 Asheville City Council candidate forum
Live Twitter coverage of the Asheville-Buncombe League of Women Voters’ forum for the six candidates vying for three open spots on Asheville City Council.
Buncombe Commissioners vote to lease soccer fields to ABYSA
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Oct. 18 to lease seven soccer fields at the Buncombe County Sports Park in Enka-Candler to the Asheville Buncombe Youth Soccer Association.
LIVE: Coverage of Oct. 18 Buncombe Commissioners meeting
Follow live Twitter coverage of the Oct. 18 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting here.
Buncombe County commissioners preview: Playing the field
At its Oct. 18 meeting, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will consider a proposal to lease soccer fields at the Buncombe County Sports Park in Enka-Candler to the Asheville Buncombe Youth Soccer Association.
City looks to clarify trolley system goals
Asheville City Council members and staff are looking to clarify the city’s goal of building a trolley system, in light of a proposal to build a shuttle service.
Sunday open thread
Plenty of news in Asheville this week, with the City Council primary, the culmination of the WE DO campaign, continuing Occupy Asheville demonstrations, a coming visit by the President and more. What’s on your minds, readers?
Local Matters: A-B Tech Sales Tax Referendum
In this edition of the Mountain Xpress’ local news podcast, reporter Jake Frankel talks about Buncombe County’s proposed—and controversial—1/4 cent sales tax to benefit A-B Tech.
Local Matters: Asheville City Council and Occupy Asheville, Ponderwell and Montford
In this edition of the Mountain Xpress’ local news podcast, reporter David Forbes discusses the most recent Asheville City Council meeting, which covered the Occupy Asheville protest, a development in the Montford neighborhood and the rejection of bid by Ponderwell for the Community Media Development Initiative.
Video of City Council’s deliberations over community-media contract
Yesterday, Oct. 11, Asheville City Council unanimously voted to not authorize a community media contract with web development company Ponderwell. Xpress had also entered a proposal for the grant and was a finalist in the assessment made by a panel of city, county and business representatives. This post features video of Council’s deliberations on the measure.
Obama in Asheville on Monday, Oct. 17? “Definitely”
We reported on Oct. 9 that Pres. Obama might stop in Asheville during a jobs bus tour; the Washington Post had noted on Oct. 5 that the tour was coming to North Carolina, then later noted Asheville was on the stop list; the Asheville Citizen-Times leads with the news online this morning, Oct. 12.
Hunt, Pelly, Gray lead City Council primary; Peck, Thomasson out
On a rainy primary Tuesday, Asheville voters came out in record low numbers, giving candidates Marc Hunt, Chris Pelly, and Lael Gray the highest number of votes and eliminating candidates Tim Peck and TJ Thomasson from the race.
Council tells staff to find temporary spot for Occupy Asheville, scraps community-media contract
At its meeting tonight, Asheville City Council directed city staff to find a temporary location for the Occupy Asheville demonstrators to camp in, with Council to consider approval. Council also unanimously rejected awarding a community-media contract to Web development company Ponderwell.
LIVE coverage of the Oct. 11 Asheville City Council meeting
Click through to the full blog, or follow #avlgov or @DavidForbes on Twitter for live dispatches from the Oct. 11 Asheville City Council meeting.
*UPDATE* Obama is reportedly coming back to Asheville Monday, Oct. 17
UPDATE: The Washington Post is now reporting that President Obama is planning to kick-off a three-day bus tour of North Carolina and Virginia in Asheville, on Monday, Oct. 17, to tout his jobs plan.