May 23, 2008 – mountainx.com

Blog Log: The week in local blogging

May 23, 2008 by Brian Postelle

Where were our heads at this week? Thank goodness there were bloggers all over the area taking note of the milestones, moments and murmurings from the past week.

Four for one

May 23, 2008 by Nelda Holder

Civil liberties award goes to legal team that freed Glen Chapman

The cruelest month: April sees rise in statewide unemployment

May 23, 2008 by Hal L. Millard

Since December 2007, North Carolina’s unemployment rate (then 4.7 percent) has been increasing steadily. For April, the state’s rate hit 5.4 percent, according to the latest statistics from the N.C. Employment Security Commission.

The Carolina Theatre

March 20, 2015May 23, 2008 by Webmaster

In the small mountain community of Spruce Pine, just northeast of Asheville, a piece of America’s past is being restored: the Carolina Theatre. Built in 1937, the theater’s grand, neon-decorated marquee jutted out prominently over the city sidewalk. By the late 1940s, the Carolina Theatre was home to the nationally recognized Carolina Barn Dance, which … Read more

Glass Menagerie

May 23, 2008 by Webmaster

The Quatro Vetro Glass and Mixed Media exhibit brings humorous high-art by Sterling Crandall, Michael Hatch, Rick Melby and Rob O’Sheeran to the Asheville Area Arts Council’s Front Gallery.

Buncombe County 2008-‘09 proposed budget

March 20, 2015May 23, 2008 by Jason Sandford

This document gives an overview of the proposed $316.8 million Buncombe County budget for the next fiscal year. A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for June 3. Click here to download a PDF of the document.

Asheville City Council preview: May 27 meeting

May 23, 2008 by Brian Postelle

Asheville City Council will hear a budget update leading up to that document’s final version in June, and a few other items of interest also show up on the agenda.

Asheville annexation resolution

March 20, 2015May 23, 2008 by Jason Sandford

This May 27, 2008, staff report to Asheville City Council includes a resolution that explains how the City of Asheville approaches annexation, and how a proposed moratorium on involuntary annexation would impact the city. A state House committee is considering an annexation moratorium bill that would put a moratorium in effect until June 30, 2009. … Read more

Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Movies I probably shouldn’t like (but do)

April 6, 2014May 23, 2008 by Ken Hanke

I’m bowing to requests various and sundry that I augment my spiel on overrated movies with one on bad movies I can’t resist.