Day: March 28, 2010
Into the Forums
On boarders’ ever-active minds this past week in the Xpress Forums: job opportunities (at Xpress and elsewhere); health care reform; demographics of the Tea Party movement; history of U.S. immigation; the merits or not of Lou Majors’ video art; and firing unhappy workers. Here are the links to those threads — plus a special video teaser of Xpress Forum boarders duking it out.
Chad Nesbitt to head Buncombe GOP ***updated 2 p.m. Sunday with video***
Chad Nesbitt, a longtime conservative activist and one of the founders of the controversial Carolina Stompers group, will now head the Buncombe County Republican party, after winning the chair’s seat at today’s convention.
In quest of energy efficiency
An energy-efficient, steel-clad residential home, going up in West Asheville. Consultant Ken Huck helped with some of the design features, and Xpress interviewed him in an article for the Living Green issue last fall. Photo by Zen Sutherland, http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/
