Buy-gold enthusiasts have cause to feel paranoid. By way of its consent agenda, Asheville City Council amended the city’s fees and charges manual to empower the Asheville Police Department to permit precious metal buyers. Chief Bill Hogan explained permanent buyers were concerned about people from out of town trying [...]
Also due to my narcissistic desire to see how I’d look with more than four hours of beauty sleep, I failed to appease the cult of Asheville City Council followers with a report on the first business meeting of the new council. Mayor Terry Bellamy was absent, reportedly to [...]
An article in today's Smoky Mountain News brings to the fore again the issue of efficient passenger rail service to Asheville, connected to the existing AMTRAK service at Salisbury.
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Everybody needs a hand in this economy... So let's get to it.Tonight on The Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC, Asheville City Councilmen Cecil Bothwell will talk about nearly not being able to hold office in NC, because it is against the law for an atheist to hold office in the state.
The story has seen press from the NY Times ([...]
There was a bit of suspense in Asheville, N.C., Tuesday morning about whether newly-elected city council member Cecil Bothwell should or would be sworn into office. Bothwell, who was elected last month, is an atheist. The North Carolina constitution still bars atheists from holding elected office.
“I’m not [...]
242 jobs won’t be saved* as Volvo will close its Asheville plant by the end of March. Even though construction is not as honorable as nonprofit work, Ray Denny, vice president for economic development of the local chamber of commerce, indicated:
State and local officials are planning “an aggressive campaign” [...]
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[...] Asheville locals are seriously trying to keep an elected official from serving because he doesn't profess a belief in God. They are citing state Constitution's unconstitutional (and archaic) clause that bars non believers from holding office -- regardless of the fact that all similar language in other states has been' [...]
A perennial topic that always gets me steamed. Baptist Planet wraps it up.
Perhaps also refugees from the war on Christmas, opponents of Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell argued that he shouldn’t be seated because he’s an atheist. All reported by the Asheville Citizen-Times, which also explains that Article 6, [...]
The Rev. Heather Dillashaw Spencer of Homeward Bound of Asheville accepts cash raised at Spookypaooza 2009 from new Asheville City Council member and Asheville blogger/activist extraordinaire, Gordon Smith. Smith and Spencer stand in front of bins where the homeless can store their possessions, one bin [...] Former head of the local NAACP chapter H. K. Edgerton wishes to block Cecil Bothwell from being seated as a member of Asheville City Council. Edgerton claims the avowed atheist is disqualified because Article 8 Section 6 of the state constitution states:
The following persons shall be disqualified for office: [...]
North Carolina can claim a delegate to the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen that starts this week.
Ellie Johnston, a UNC Asheville senior, is one of 27 students from across the country selected to attend the gathering. Johnston, a 22-year-old from Greensboro, will travel with [...]
