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• Bush missed an opportunity at his first address to NAACP

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:13

  Roland MartinCHICAGO ?? After six years as president, George W. Bush finally decided to show up at the NAACP convention after ignoring invitations to speak.Then again, considering the blasts unleashed by Chairman Julian Bond and then-president and CEO Kwe...

• Election reform might require a constitutional amendment

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:11

  Bill WalzRight-wing Republicans, when faced with Constitutional obstacles to their culture-war issues like gay marriage, immigration, abortion or flag desecration, never hesitate to seek to amend the Constitution. They can be counted on, particularly arou...

• ?¥Boxing match?? war coverage puts ratings over information

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:09

   Mark WestWatching the television coverage of the Israeli incursions into Lebanon has been instructive. Rush Limbaugh??s fulminations against U.S. citizens in Lebanon, whom he described as spoiled brats and crybabies because they had observed that ot...

• Advice Goddess: Last laugh? Try putting child first

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:07

  The Advice GoddessAmy AlkonMy husband of seven years is a serial cheater who??s left me and our young son about 300 times. We??re separated now, and he??s engaged to his latest affair partner, but that didn??t stop him from trying to sleep with my happily...

• Man who spent 19 years in coma now asks to go back to sleep

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:05

  Andy BorowitzIn what members of the medical community are calling an unprecedented development, a man who recently awoke from a 19-year coma has asked doctors to put him back to sleep.At a press conference in Jacksonville, Florida today, the man, Jason De...

• Listening to one??s body can avoid serious future problems

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:03

  Janese JohnsonOur bodies are similar to a car in that when it needs something, it tells us beforehand. If our car is running low on gas, the gas gauge tells us to stop and put gas in it. This is the same for the oil and temperature of the engine. Those si...

• Is life ruled by grace, karma or dice roll?

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:01

  Marc Mullinax?®Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes. But those who remember their past too closely are condemned to relive them.?∆?± George Santayana?ÿSEOUL, South Korea ?± ?®What goes around comes around.?∆...

• Asheville delays order to vacate house ?? for third time

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 03:00

  By DAVID FORBESFor the third time, Asheville City Council delayed the serving of an order to vacate a house on 128 Alabama Ave. on July 25, giving the owner until Sept. 12 to work with the city and get a legal certificate of occupancy.On March 25, city in...

• Letters to the Editor

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 02:58

  Reader expresses outrageover Mexican flag billboardI am OUTRAGED at the new billboard on Swannanoa River Road at the Fairview Road intersection depicting a Mexican flag.  I called the number on it and was told that there is another one just like it o...

• Police Blotter: August 2, 2006

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 02:54

  Human skull, bones found;autopsy results soughtA human skull and other skeletal remains were collected by Asheville police, fire and rescue officials from the French Broad River on Monday.Police, who are awaiting autopsy results, said they were unclear wh...

• UNCA??S first black professor, department chair dies

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 02:50

  UNC Asheville recently bid farewell to the woman who was its first tenured African-American faculty member, as well as its first African-American department chair.Gwendolyn Henderson died July 25 at Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care in Hendersonvil...

• Montford Arts Center shuts down; walking, rickshaw tours to continue

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 02:49

  MONTFORD ?? Citing a lack of business, the Montford Arts Center at 235 Montford Ave. closed this past Monday.The center, which opened in December 2003, features a gallery. It sponsored walking tours and an annual music and arts festival....

• Contributions of designer, philosopher discussed at UNCA forum

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 02:48

  From Staff ReportsA panel of environmental, media and educational specialists aimed to challenge attendees with a new outlook July 20 when it presented a forum about Black Mountain College??s famed environmental scientist  Buckminster Fuller and hi...

• Sports Briefs: August 2, 2006

  Created: Wednesday, 02 August 2006 02:46

  T??s to host events to helppediatric brain tumor groupThe Asheville Tourists will host their second annual Cure the Kids Night at McCormick Field at 7:05 tonight.The Tourists will host a series of events throughout the evening, including an auction of a b...

• Safety tops citizens?? concerns at Merrimon forum

  Created: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:14

  By JIM GENAROPedestrian safety, more greenery and underground utilities were among the issues most frequently mentioned by a gathering of about 200 residents who attended a public forum on the future of Merrimon Avenue last Thursday evening.The meeting, w...

• Jazzin?? it up on Wall Street

  Created: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:11

  Martin Houghtaling plays jazz standards on the cello outside Dolce Vita on Wall Street last Thursday. Houghtaling recently moved to the area from Miami, but said he has had difficulty finding places that would allow him to play downtown. He uses a sampler...

• Newest alderman appointed by Woodfin board

  Created: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:09

  By DAVID FORBESWOODFIN ??  The Woodfin Board of Aldermen on July 18 voted 4-1 to appoint Virgil Hollifield, a local businessman, to fill a vacant aldermen??s seat.?®I??m interested in seeing Woodfin grow,?∆ Hollifield said. ?®I??m looking forward...

• Council mulls proposal to tighten enforcement on illegal immigration

  Created: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:07

  By DAVID FORBESA proposal to tighten Asheville??s enforcement of illegal immigration laws and hasten the deportation of illegal immigrants who commit crimes stirred debate among City Council members on July 18.While council agreed that steps needed to be ...

• Council debates possibility of honoring artists, buying art

  Created: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:05

  By DAVID FORBESIn the future, Asheville may have a designated ?®Artist of the Year?∆ and a new piece of public art every year ?? if a  plan that City Council discussed on July 18 comes to fruition.Under the proposal, the title would be conferred t...

• Sports Briefs for July 26, 2006

  Created: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:03

  Tourists take advantage of Captains?? errors for winEASTLAKE, Ohio ?? The Asheville Tourists topped the Lake County Captains 4-2 in baseball last Monday night.Asheville??s win ?? snapping a two-game losing streak ?? was keyed on strong pitching coupled wi...