It’s a little more than two years since Terry Bellamy moved from an Asheville City Council seat to the mayor’s chair after besting fellow Council member Joe Dunn in a run for the city’s top job. The victory made the 33-year-old Asheville native the city’s first black mayor—and the youngest mayor then serving in the […]
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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.
For the record: Mayor Bellamy on protesting in Asheville
Maybe you’ve heard the rumors. But what exactly did Mayor Bellamy say about that Bank of America protest and similar demonstrations?
Asheville mayor on McCormick Heights: more than drugs
Mayor Terry Bellamy says that a handful of problems — including changing market needs and failures in promotion, management and maintenance — and not just crime led to the breakdown of the McCormick Heights housing project. Council member Carl Mumpower sees things differently.
Dear *&%#@! mayor: The angry e-mails
Below are the 21 e-mail messages, in their entirety, that Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy received in the wake of the “City Council Screws the Troops” coverage in the Oct. 12 Asheville Tribune. They are reproduced here exactly as Mountain Xpress received them from the city of Asheville. For the full story, see “Uncivil Discourse?” in […]
Bellamy and the billboard magnate
Why would a nationally known media executive in Augusta, Ga., send a $200 check to Council member Terry Bellamy‘s re-election campaign in Asheville? W.S. Morris III runs the Morris Communications Company, a $400-million-a-year media conglomerate that owns scores of media outlets around the U.S., including newspapers, magazines, book publishers and radio stations. Fairway Outdoor Advertising […]