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Creative Writing: Why Is Your House Historically Significant?
Maybe with a little digging you could learn that the first black woman to babysit a slightly famous poet picked up the mail at the house down the street. That…
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Can’t Relate outside My Cell
Something there is that doesn’t like a wall, and something there is that does. Determining where jurisdictions of office holders ought to be is racist, ethnocentric, classist, or some kind…
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Hear, Hear
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was in town yesterday, and I didn’t even know. He was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the NC Bar Association at…
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Encephalitis Preferable
Contamination is the big thing these days. I remain of the minority opinion that the CTS scare was only an attempt to get city water. As you probably know, many…
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Pulling Together, Working Together, Just Building Together
The Asheville Citizen-Times wants you to send them Letters to Obama. They assume you believe there is a better chance of being heard if their editorial staff chooses to publish…
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Slight Anachronism
Who should control Asheville’s water resources has become politicized along partisan lines. A demonstration has been organized for Saturday, when lots of Republicans in higher offices will be attending former…
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Edwards trial —WTF?
I went down to the John Edwards trial in the hope of watching former aide Andrew Young provide the tawdry details of the former senator’s affair with Rielle Hunter. I…
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Shame Yourself into Voting for More Taxes
Shame, shame, shame on you. The Asheville Citizen-Times makes it very clear that government is doing everything in and outside its power to create jobs. For example, it hosted a…
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NCCAT’s budget slashed ? are more cuts on the way?
A rural teacher?s retreat in the North Carolina mountains continues to command around $5.5 million in appropriations from the state budget, despite questions about its necessity in lean fiscal times.…
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Lie la Lie, Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie, Lie la Lie
The lies continue today. As you all know, we’re out of the recession. Business is booming. Unemployment is up. No doubt, it has something to do with economic uncertainties surrounding…
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Asheville Cafe’s Presidential Special: “liberal portion of ham”
I love entrepreneurs. The Asheville Citizen-Times is blogging on the Obama’s visit to Asheville and the Grove Park Inn. (emphasis is mine) Tupelo Honey Cafe is offering the following special…
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Guilty until Proven Innocent
The president is supposed to be staying at the Grove Park Inn. Other presidents have stayed there while I’ve been living here, and I have no recollections of even 1%…