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• Karate Kids

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:56

  Staff Photo by Meg HaleMartial arts students Joshua Heetderks (14) and Claire Holland (16)practice Nakamura No Sai at the Center for Martial Arts on MerrimonAvenue. This form of karate-kobudo is say kata, which means "withouta bow." Earlier on...

• Council gives go-ahead to bank building on Merrimon

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:42

  By DAVID FORBESInstead of a vacant Burger King, those driving along Merrimon Avenue can expect to see a new office building with a bank drive-through at the intersection with Fenner Avenue in the coming year.Asheville City Council on Nov. 22 unanimously a...

• UNCA staff panel to push salaries as No. 1 concern

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:39

  Members of UNC Asheville??s Chancellor??s Staff Advisory Committee decided last Monday to voice their concerns about lagging staff salaries and the need for an ombudsman to address management issues to UNC system President-elect Erskine Bowles during a pl...

• Ancient Roman ideas have modern influence, prof says

  Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:35

  By DAVID FORBESThe Roman Empire may have ended more than a thousand years ago, but its ideas and images remain alive in today??s culture and politics, Dr. Brian Hook, a history professor at UNC Asheville, said in a Nov. 14 lecture in UNCA??s Humanities Le...

• Daily Planet: New City Council should appoint Freeborn to fill vacant seat

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:38

  Bryan Freeborn should fill Mayor-elect Terry Bellamy??s soon-to-be vacant seat on Asheville City Council. This is not a matter of political preference or an endorsement of Freeborn??s campaign for council. By making this statement, we are not indicating...

• John North: Bobs' show uneven, but vocal pyrotechnics prove memorable

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:33

  John NorthEditor & Publisher?®In the white room, with black curtains, near the station.Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.Silver horses, ran down moonbeams, in your dark eyes.Dawnlight smiles, on you leaving, my contentment...?â...

• David Forbes: What's so wise about the East? All 'wisdom' must be questioned

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:26

  David ForbesWisdom has to consist of more than simply flipping a traditional belief on its head.Sadly, since coming to Asheville, I have met countless souls who seem to think it means exactly that.This is nothing exclusive to this fair city, of course. ...

• Mark West: Reagan 'legacy' based more on hype than truth

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:18

  Mark WestThe greatest propaganda success of the Republican propaganda machine has been the notion that Ronald Reagan was a great president. The widening gap between rich and poor, the dismantling of the public safety net and the other changes he wrought...

• Seamus McNerney: No music education? No real conversation

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:09

  Seamus McNerneyMusic education is in the toilet. Funding has been drastically cut and, more disturbingly, interest among students and teachers (as well as administrators) alike is at an all-time low. I??m not speaking about any level of private or publi...

• Marc Mullinax: Fundamentalism? An addictive distrust of God and democracy

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:56

  Marc Mullinax?®I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God ?± and I hope you??ll quote me on that.?∆?±?± Arthur Hertzberg?ÿMARS HILL ?? This is the first in a series of essays on the ...

• Janese Johnson: Eastern, Western philosophies both contribute in great ways

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:50

  Janese JohnsonOver the past few months, I have heard a number of times how superior Western philosophy is to Eastern philosophy. I am not an expert or scholar in philosophy, but I am a life-long student of ideas. Therefore, my point of view will be comi...

• Brad Norman: New Major League baseball steroid tests? Step in right direction

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:38

  Brad NormanBOONE ?? Major League Baseball finally ?? finally! ?? realized the seriousness of steroid usage in the sport. Accordingly, officials have reacted.It was announced on Nov.15 that major league players and owners agreed on a new steroid policy, ...

• Meg Hale: 'A Little House Christmas' brings an early bit of holiday joy to Asheville

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:18

  Meg HaleThere is just something about Christmas that makes you want to watch all of those arguably cheesy holiday episodes of television shows that you watched as a child. It just is not Christmas until you have seen Charlie Brown decorate the stic...

• UNCA student found dead in dorm, police investigating

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:01

  Shelton Elizabeth Sanders, 19, a sophomore at UNC Asheville from Lumberton, was found dead in her room in Hoey Residence Hall around 11:40 a.m. last Friday.The cause of death remains unknown, but according to UNCA campus police on Monday morning, no foul ...

• Suspect slain by deputies after 3 shot in robbery

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:59

  CULLOWHEE ?? Jackson County sheriff??s deputies shot and killed Dewann Christopher McCollum, 32, hours after he allegedly shot and critically wounded three people in the early morning of  Nov. 15 while robbing the China Dragon restaurant.McCollum rep...

• Asheville police arrest 4; 2 injured in knife fight

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:51

  The Asheville Police Department arrested four suspects, all Arden residents, around 9:30 p.m. Nov. 14, after a drug-related altercation that left two people injured. The suspects were allegedly involved in a fight that arose during a drug transaction...

• Biltmore Forest chief retires after 28 years with police

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:48

  Biltmore Forest Police Chief Gene Ray will retire Dec. 31 after 28 years with the town??s police department.Ray arrived in Biltmore Forest in 1970, although he departed several times to pursue other jobs, including a stint as chief of the UNC Asheville ...

• Man charged with shooting, murder of Oakley woman

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:46

  OAKLEY ?? Kenneth Michael Camby, 48, of Oakley, was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Maxine Joanne Yosten, 51, of Oakley around 5:30 p.m.  Nov. 14 at 39 Loomis Dr.Yosten was shot in the abdomen with a .38-caliber revolver inside he...

• UNCA police investigating string of campus larcenies

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:42

  UNCA campus police are investigating   four larcenies that occurred on campus last weekend. Police have not yet made any arrests relating to the crimes.Last Friday, two larcenies were reported ?? the first at 3:23 p.m., involving the theft of ...

• Man cited for unsafe turn following wreck at UNCA

  Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 08:57

  Anthony Eugene Alexander, 34, of Asheville was cited by UNC Asheville campus police around 7:30 a.m. last Friday for unsafe movement resulting in an accident and driving with a revoked license.After receiving a call that there was an accident on Universit...