In addition to regular updates by Mark Barrett with the Asheville Citizen-Times, there are two locally based sources for getting a fix on the news in Raleigh, where North Carolina legislators meet — one from former Mountain Xpress editor Nelda Holder and the other from the nonprofit, online media source Carolina Public Press.
Guest columnist Jodi Ford looks at how the loss of the Earned Income Tax Credit may affect area families. This article is featured as part of a partnership between the Xpress and Children First/ Communities In Schools of Buncombe County.
State Senator Martin Nesbitt, the minority leader and longtime Democratic legislator from Asheville, died yesterday at age 67.
