What if there was a bill in the N.C. Senate, introduced the day before the Senate voted, that would offer for sale to the highest bidder Mt. Mitchell State Park, the new Chimney Rock State Park, Pilot Mountain State Park or any of the other state parks in North Carolina? Would there not be a … Read more
Our country will not be leaving Iraq when, as expected, the surge is pronounced a huge success, nor when Mr. Bush leaves the White House, nor when a new president takes office or a new Congress is sworn in. Matter of fact, we won’t be leaving for a very long time. Now that Halliburton has … Read more
My favorite Martin Luther King Jr. attribution is that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Two recent anti-Israeli letters have been published in our local daily newspaper (Asheville Citizen-Times). The first was recognition of the anniversary of the tragic USS Liberty attack during the Six-Day War. The letter writer was vehement in saying this was an unprovoked attack … Read more
To hear him tell it, TJ Wiedow is “so over” making kung-fu movies. But that’s probably just the fatigue talking. It’s been five—no, maybe six—years since he started the last one, and he’s still working on it. And no matter how much work he puts into it, it seems like the thing will never be … Read more
Loving Food Resources is an all-volunteer, nonprofit food pantry located on the campus of Kenilworth Presbyterian Church in Asheville. LFR is dedicated to providing nutritional food and personal care items to neighbors in our community living with HIV/AIDS or in home Hospice care. Begun in 1991, LFR serves an average of 50 clients each … Read more
I’ve lived in cities for more than half my life, but I grew up in a cove in west Buncombe, at the top of a horseshoe-shaped dirt road. We had a couple of acres, mostly wooded, with a small fruit orchard, a large garden and a million-dollar view of Mount Pisgah. When the wind blew … Read more
