Shannon Watkins writes for the Martin Center about efforts to rebuild trust in American higher education. Americans’ trust in higher education is crumbling. According to a recent Gallup poll, only…
Shannon Watkins of the Martin Center devotes her latest column to a new education option in the N.C. mountains. One of higher education’s perplexing questions is why, in a nation…
We’re informed that the minimum housing code for Black Mountain is going to provide better protection for renters. I think that means higher rents to cover the landlords’ cost of…
View in your browser. Welcome Since the release of grades based on the state’s new school performance grade system, the mainstream media and liberal advocacy organizations have focused on the…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court’s ruling against former Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline in her effort to secure email…
RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Asheville totaled about $2,078 per resident in the 2012 budget year, ranking the city No. 7 out of North Carolina’s largest ranked cities,…
Whilst all about, children perish in food deserts – or so we hear – the town fathers in Black Mountain are inquiring into topics of a more eternal nature, like…
The Black Mountain Board of Aldermen decided it was $75,000/year cheaper for the town to run the golf course than to contract with a management firm. The town had signed…
The beloved Biltmore Square Mall is closing at the end of the month. It is beloved because it has palm trees, and anything with palm trees ought to be beloved.…
Another reason the cesspool of Asheville requires special legislation to seize its water assets is fear that it will raise rates. Unlike Asheville, the Town of Black Mountain is talking…
Click here to view and here to listen to Michael Lowrey discussing this report. RALEIGH — Local taxes and fees in Asheville totaled about $2,066 per resident in the 2011…
I was pugnacious in the last post. Now, I feel like a jerk on a chain with my leaders feeding me high and holy purposes to capture my heart. Representatives…