Day: August 24, 2009
Thornburg reverses gender-discrimination case
On Aug. 20, federal Western District Court Judge Lacy Thornburg, in his last civil case before retiring later this month, overturned a jury trial’s determination that Buncombe County and the WNC Regional Air Quality Agency illegally used gender discrimination when they passed over Melanie Pitrolo for the interim director’s position at the agency in 2005.
This is much more common in the U.K.
Tom Stanford of Asheville’s Wayfarers All rocks a skirt and pumps. We know the Rolling Stones and U2 went in drag on occasion, but why Stanford? “It seemed like something fun to do,” he says. Wayfarers All plays a CD release show for their new, self-titled disc, at The Boiler Room (11 Grove St., Asheville, … Read more
