The candidates speak: Video of the League of Women Voters Forum ***UPDATED­***

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The League of Women Voters just celebrated its 90th birthday, and here in Asheville, celebrating means doing what they always do at election time: host a candidate forum. On Tuesday, Oct. 12, that’s just what happened. This post contains video of the entire forum and Twitter dispatches from Xpress staffers Jake Frankel and Michael Muller.

Civil Rights leader, freedom singer Bernice Johnson Reagon will deliver UNCA commenceme­nt address

Noted Civil Rights leader and Freedom Singer Bernice Johnson Reagon will give this year’s commencement address at UNCA. Chancellor Anne Ponder will confer honorary degrees on Reagon and legendary UNC-Chapel Hill Coaches Dean Smith and Roy Williams at the university’s spring commencement. The ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 15, on UNC Asheville’s Quad.

2009 UNC system cuts

This is a summary approved by the N.C. Board of Governors that discusses 2009 legislative cuts to UNC system schools, including centers and institutions. Click here to download a PDF of the report. This is a budget reduction plan dated June from the UNC General Administration. Note the mention of the 10 percent reduction. UNCA […]

The Other Side of the Mountain

All of a sudden it seems to some, if not to those of us who are older, that we have an “energy crisis.” We’ve been living on the edge for years, driving larger and larger cars, building larger and larger homes, and pretending the supply of oil and especially gasoline was unlimited. Oops: Now the […]

Love makes a family

Time was, the term “nuclear family” brought to mind mommy, daddy and the proverbial 2.5 kids. Of course, in reality, families come in many different configurations, a fact borne out in a photography exhibition hosted at UNCA. All in the family: Photo from the Love Makes a Family exhibit. From left to right, Michael Elsasser […]

Despair and hope

photo by Jonathan Welch Mark Gibney is an ambitious man. When he’s 85, he says, he’s going to be the No. 1 tennis player in the world. But at 53, he’s pretty busy doing his bit to make sure there’ll still be a world by then, through such efforts as his forthcoming book, Ending the […]