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• Sports Briefs August 9, 2006

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:29

  Lakewood tops Asheville10-7 with 6th-inning rallyThe Lakewood BlueClaws scored five runs in the sixth inning to rip the Asheville Tourists 10-7 in baseball in front of 2,112 fans at McCormick Field last Sunday night.Asheville scored all seven of its runs ...

• Opinion: Loyalty to sports teams has taken back seat to pursuit of money

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:25

  Erik RhyneBOONE ?? What happened to sports? What happened to loyalty to a team, or a town?It is sad to think players are only loyal to a green piece of pap...

• ?¥An Inconvenient Truth??: It??s worth changing one??s plans to view film

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:23

  Meg HaleAlright, alright, so I really should have gotten around to seeing ?®An Inconvenient Truth?∆ before now, but really it??s been so hot, who wants to leave the house? Seriously though, this is among the most amazing works of filmmaking I have seen...

• Global warming: It??s too darn hot

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:20

  Recently, numerous conversations throughout the country ?? indeed, most likely throughout the Northern Hemisphere ?? have revolved around one phrase: ?®It??s really hot out there!?∆While valid critiques could be made  about people??s tendency in e...

• ?¥Taking a Chance on Love?? proves smashing

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:19

  John NorthEditor & PublisherMARS HILL ?? Despite its co-sponsorship, Gannett Co. Inc., America??s largest newspaper chain, surely takes a slap in the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre??s production of ?®Taking a Chance on Love.?∆And to its cre...

• Bidding for Olympics hosting wastes vital taxpayer dollars

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:15

  Roland MartinCHICAGO ?? Why do we go ga-ga when an American city plans on bidding for the Olympic Games? Mayors go nuts over the chance to land what is always described as a lucrative event that elevates a city beyond their borders. Newspapers, TV and rad...

• Immorality, stupidity of rulers leads to disastrous outcomes

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:13

   Mark WestThere is a problem with stupid and immoral policies beyond their stupidity and immorality.Such policies are wrong, and lead to unexpected and often disastrous outcomes.Now, that??s a large claim to make in this era, when realpolitik of the ...

• Ideas for new Libertarian path reflect need for temperance

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:11

  Carl S. Milsted, Jr.If you look at the blurb below this column you will see that I am chair of the Libertarian Party of Buncombe County. However, much of what I have written in this column is quite at odds with the Libertarian Party platform. Indeed, ther...

• Advice Goddess: Cat person likely loyal to first love

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:09

  The Advice GoddessAmy AlkonMy girlfriend of eight months is so attached to her cat that she takes it with her when she goes to the toilet. She also lets it sleep in the bed and drink out of the bathroom sink. She has cat knickknacky things everywhere, and...

• After drunken-driving episode, Mel Gibson converts to Judaism

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:07

  Andy BorowitzIn his boldest bid yet to apologize to the Jewish community, actor Mel Gibson today announced that he had converted to Judaism. The news took many Jews aback, since conversion to Judaism is a demanding process that can take months or even yea...

• Family fun day at Bele Chere

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 16:04

  Children and adults alike enjoyed painting on a large canvas on Coxe Avenue downtown July 30 at Bele Chere. Officials estimated attendance at the street festival to be 300,000 this year, making it about the same as the past several years. Though events ...

• In assigning value in life, religion and money speak the same language

  Created: Tuesday, 08 August 2006 15:54

  Marc Mullinax?®Pay no attention to the man behind that curtain! The great Oz has spoken!?∆ ?± L. Frank Baum?ÿMARS HILL ?± Changing money from Korean won to U.S. dollars at the airport last week came with an extra transaction.It hit me like a th...

• Despite objections, parking lot expansion OK??d

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:33

  By DAVID FORBESAsheville City Council approved a controversial parking lot expansion on a 6-1 vote over neighborhood objections on July 25.?®This does seem to a be a really good project,?∆ Councilwoman Robin Cape said. ?®We talk about denser developme...

• Rockin?? for God

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:31

  Christian rock band Tait performs for an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred people at the Renaissance Hotel parking lot stage during Bele Chere last Sunday afternoon. The annual summer street festival, which is billed as the largest outdoor festival in...

• Black Mountain boards review development plan

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:30

  By JIM GENAROBLACK MOUNTAIN ?? In a joint session, the Black Mountain Board of Aldermen and the town??s Planning Board heard a proposal last Monday that could lead to a request for voluntary annexation of the Goodson Cove Development. The development, whi...

• Recommendations on global problems shared at design lab

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:28

  By JIM GENAROParticipants at the Design Science Lab presented recommendations for combating poverty, environmental degradation and other global and local problems at a public forum last Friday that capped a week of workshops.About 100 people attended the ...

• Opinion: Yo, Barry Bonds: It??s time for you to give up baseball

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:21

  EDITOR??S NOTE: This column was written before trainer Greg Anderson was released and asked to testify.?ÿ Erik RhyneBOONE ??  In case you have not wat...

• ?¥Lady in the Water?? lacks a plotline strong enough for full-length film

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:19

  Meg HaleWriter-director M. Night Shyamalan (?®The Sixth Sense?∆) has based his career around creating mysterious thrillers that almost always contain a surprise ending. While somewhat mysterious and thrilling, his newest film, ?®Lady in the Water,?∆...

• Minimum wage boost overdue

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:17

  During this election year, a very important family-values issue has made its way to the halls of the Congress: the minimum wage.Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. Today, because of inflation, the two million workers nationwide who make j...

• Despite flaws, program??s lessons hit home

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:15

  John NorthEditor & PublisherTo me, the very notion of Buckminster Fuller Intitute??s Asheville Design Science Lab sounded unpleasantly abstract and hopelessly utopian ?? nonethless, curiosity got the better of me, so I attended one of the lectures in ...