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• What the world needs now is some spiritual secularism

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:35

  Bill Walz Allow me to share something serious and larger than any particular issue. It is the underpinnings of my political philosophy. I see America lost in a dangerous blurring between the religious and the poli...

• ëThree Heralds of the Stormí an engrossing read, even with repetitive themes

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:32

  David Forbes The short story is an underrated art form. Often, people try to cram too much into tales that require the tightest of plotting and character development.† Not Storm Constantine, though. The...

• Advice Goddess: Lying about age may be just the beginning

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:28

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Iím a 49-year-old guy, and when I met my girlfriend of six months she told me she was 30. Our 19-year age difference worried me, but she said it was cool with her. A few weeks ago...

• Buying locally grown food has public safety benefits

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:26

    Janese Johnson The United States has long been known to offer great food for the world. We have been known to produce enough food for ourselves, offer food aid to other areas of the world and have enou...

• Walking oneís talk means walking into the unfamiliar

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:20

      Marc Mullinax ìI want to break free.îó Queen ï MARS HILL ñ ìJust hold my hand,î he said, ìand youíll be fine.î The year is 1991 and Iím in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Some fellow s...

• Patience, effort, diplomacy urged to end U.S. strife with Iran

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:30

  By JOHN NORTH While the prospects are slim, opportunities exist for thawing relations between the United States and Iran, especially because of the two nationsí mutual interests, former U.S. ambassador L. Bruce Laingen, who once was held hostage...

• Maypole rite welcomes springtime

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:28

  Maypole dancers celebrate Beltane, a traditional Pagan holiday associated with May Day, in a ritual held by Coven Highlandwilde last Friday evening outside Unity Center in Fletcher. The pole and its ribbons symbolize springtime fertility.† Special p...

• EarthFirst! founder urges ërewildingí North America

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:27

    Dave Foreman By STEVE RASMUSSEN To save the planet from the mass extinctions of species that human overpopulation and climate change are causing, human beings need to ìrewildî it, EarthFirs...

• Despite opposition, zoning ordinance clears final hurdle

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:23

  From Staff Reports After hearing last-minute comments pro and con from residents just before the vote, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on May 1 gave final approval to the first-ever zoning ordinance for the county. The measure was app...

• Author, artist to address UNCA grads

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:22

  Esteemed author Ernest Gaines and renowned artist Donald Sultan will deliver the UNC Asheville commencement address at 9 a.m. May 12 on the Ramsey Library Terrace. In case of rain, commencement will begin at 10 a.m. at the Asheville Civic Center. S...

• Kucinich presents his vision of U.S. united for peace, sustainability

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:20

  By JIM GENARO Dennis Kucinich   When presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich presented his vision of the United Statesí future world role to a rally at UNC Ashevilleís Justice Center on April 2...

• Asheville runner finishes as seventh fastest woman

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:14

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. ó Asheville (N.C.) runner Jenny DeWeese† was the seventh woman ó and the first American woman ó to finish in a field of about 40,000 runners at the eighth annual Country Music Marathon and Half-Marathon on April 28. DeWeese, 2...

• Three-run home run in 9th lifts Tourists to 6-5 victory

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:13

  With two strikes and two outs, Anthony Jackson smashed a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Asheville Tourists to a 6-5 win over the Kannapolis Intimidators in front of 2,206 fans at McCormick Field on Sunday afternoon. ...

• Former Tourists hurler suspended for drug use

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:13

  NEW YORK ó After testing positive for a drug of abuse, former Asheville (N.C.) Tourists pitcher Matt Roney was suspended in late April for 50 games. Roney, 27, a right-hander in Torontoís minor-league system, was penalized under baseballís minor...

• UNCA strands 15 runners in 7-5 defeat to ETSU

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:12

  East Tennessee State University topped UNC Asheville 7-5 on May 1 at UNCAís Greenwood Park. The Bulldogs left 15 runners on base. At the plate, UNCAís Rob Vernon and David Williams each swatted two hits. Getting the loss was Ben Buchanan (4-...

• ëCondemnedí proves ideal only for reality-TV haters

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:11

  By ELIZABETH MEADS Imagine an extreme version of ìSurvivorî or a high-tech update of the 1932 classic ìThe Most Dangerous Gameî ó where the contestants are condemned murderers who get to kill each other on camera ó and where the winner is t...

• $400 haircuts belie bigger issues

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:09

  The biggest faux-pas a populist political candidate can make is appearing to be an elitist. It is hard for a candidate to sell himself as a ìworking manî concerned about the conditions of the poor if he has designer tastes and the means to indul...

• Most Earthlike planet, Gliese 581c: Itís a must-see

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:08

    John North Editor & Publisher Shades of ìStar Trekî ó† I recently read where the most Earthlike planet outside our solar system has been discovered in the contellation Libra ó and itís o...

• Fair and balanced reporting? Fox News is not even ënewsí

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:07

  Mark West John Edwards is right. Iím not talking about his political orientation, although he is to the right of me and, I think, of most progressives. Iím talking about his unwillingness to app...

• While it could use another edit, ëThe Neighborís Soní is powerful

  Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 15:05

  In 1951, Liesel Steffen, then nine, remembered her father as a good and loving man. David Forbes   A botanist and teacher, he would give food to refugees. He would take her on nature walks thr...