Day: September 19, 2007
City blasts race report
A controversial report on race relations in the Asheville Police Department has drawn sharp criticism from city officials and others, questioning its methodology and execution and saying it’s not what the author was asked to provide. “Not what we asked him to do”: Asheville Police Chief Bill Hogan says the department has room to improve … Read more
The Green Scene
Asheville is one of 10 cities in the eastern and southern U.S. that will experience fewer healthy air days as a result of global warming, according to a report released Sept. 13 by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environment North Carolina. By 2050, Asheville will have more than twice as many bad-air days per … Read more
Campaign Calendar
One-stop absentee voting is available from Sept. 20 to Oct. 6. Call your Board of Elections for location/information (Buncombe County: 250-4200)—and remember that, effective this year, you may register when you vote during this period. Sept. 21: Coffee talk with Bill Russell, candidate for Asheville City Council, takes place at Atlanta Bread Company on Hendersonville … Read more
You’ve only just begun
Next week, the Council on Aging of Buncombe County, the Land of Sky Regional Council and CarePartners will join together to help area residents celebrate Active Aging week. (And you thought it was enough to age gracefully. Think again.) Photo By Kent Priestley “We’ve known for a long time about the benefits of exercise to … Read more
The Biz
Patty Schwartz is 28. Now living in Asheville, she spent three years in college in Florida studying political science before quitting “out of boredom,” she says with a resigned sigh. She bounced around a few states in the Southeast working odd jobs and “partying a little too much.” Now, with her 30s bearing down on … Read more
God save the Queens
In the topsy-turvy world of rock ‘n’ roll there is little room for peace. For every peace-love-dope-laden refrain of “Smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love somebody right now” there is a Johnny Rotten spewing “Destroy” into the microphone. Long ago, the leaders of record labels realized that nihilism and manufactured anger … Read more
The importance of being earnest
It’s possible that Asheville-based singer/songwriter Eliza Lynn took the lyric “good things come to those who wait, not to those who wait too late, we got to go for all we know” to heart. Not that her sometimes gritty, sometimes sweet songs bear much resemblance to those of Bill Withers (except for the surprising soul … Read more
