AltWeeklies Wire
When Princes Kissnew
A university librarian spars with North Carolina Congressman Walter "Freedom Fries" Jones over a gay-positive book.
Mountain Xpress |
Nelda Holder |
09-12-2005 |
Civil Liberties
Biologists Enlist Fish to Fight Aquatic Weedsnew
Unchecked, hydrilla can fill lakes and ponds with dense, green curtains that choke out native species and snare boats and swimmers. But it appears to have met its match in another equally exotic species -- the sterile grass carp.
Mountain Xpress |
Kent Priestly |
08-23-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Into the Blogospherenew
Blogging is the new way to do news in Western North Carolina and around the world. Bloggers are part reporter/part diarist and run the gamut from politics to the arts and education.
Mountain Xpress |
Steve Shanafelt |
08-23-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
General Electric Writes Legislation for N.C. Congressmannew
Why would a North Carolina congressional representative introduce legislation to stall GE's clean-up of the Hudson River? And why would he let the company write it? Congressman Charles Taylor did just that.
Mountain Xpress |
Brian Sarzynski |
06-16-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Secret Army Training Raises Troubling Questionsnew
A late-night helicopter assault on the county courthouse last summer took citizens of Asheville, N.C., by surprise. Other cities have blocked such urban warfare training, but secrecy surrounds the U.S. military's proposals and plans for more of the same.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
04-22-2005 |
Policy Issues
Lights, Camera ... Not So Much Actionnew
The North Carolina movie industry, once touted as the next big thing for the Tar Heel state, is dwindling. North Carolina is losing out to other states offering financial incentives, and to foreign markets.
Mountain Xpress |
Lisa Watters |
04-07-2005 |
Business & Labor
The Circle Game: Pluses and Pitfalls of Local Recyclingnew
Recycling isn't as simple as putting plastics and glass in the recycling bin. Cecil Bothwell describes what works in local recycling, what doesn't and why bottled water is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Mountain Xpress |
Cecil Bothwell |
10-27-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment, lead, carcinogen, glass, MRF, murpf, PET, phthalate, plastic, plastic film bags, recycle
Look Homeward, Big Brothernew
Secret files show the FBI spied on North Carolina's finest writers and politicians over decades.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
10-27-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Businesses Embrace Ancient Art of Feng Shuinew
Customers won't stay and spend money in your store; buyers keep backing out of deals to buy your house; workers in your office complain of headaches and fatigue. Maybe, a friend suggests, it's time to call in a feng shui expert to cure your building's ailing "chi."
Mountain Xpress |
Steve Rasmussen |
08-19-2004 |
Business & Labor
The Sons of Confederate Veterans Face Another Civil Warnew
It's been 139 years since the Civil War ended. But judging by the latest infighting within the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which came to a head at the group's recent national convention in Dalton, Ga., a truce in the long-running cultural war about the meaning of Southern pride may still be generations away.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
08-19-2004 |
Race & Class
Plantain Weed Takes Sting Out of Bee Stingnew
An herbal medicine specialist says that one of the most widespread "weeds" in the world, plantain, is a first-choice remedy for many skin ailments.
Mountain Xpress |
Corrina Wood |
08-07-2004 |
Science
Smell? What smell?new
Examining the decisions of a local air quality board in North Carolina reveals statewide problems with influence, laws and enforcement.
Mountain Xpress |
Steve Rasmussen |
07-23-2004 |
Environment
Cake Out in the Rain: Tanker Leaks Liquid Uraniumnew
While the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies was convened in San AANtonio, a truckload of liquified uranium was dripping on the highway in Asheville, N.C. -- and daily shipments of uranyl nitrate are routine.
Mountain Xpress |
Cecil Bothwell |
07-09-2004 |
Environment
Former Espionage Base Lets Public See Outer Spacenew
High in the mountains of Transylvania County, N.C., a former top-secret, high-tech spy base is now an astronomical education center.
Mountain Xpress |
Jon Elliston |
06-10-2004 |
Science
Electronic Systems Could Fail the Voting Testnew
A growing chorus of authoritative voices worldwide maintains that the type of voting machine used in North Carolina's Buncombe County (known in the industry as direct-record electronic devices) is inherently unreliable and prone to tampering in ways that couldn't even be detected.
Mountain Xpress |
Cecil Bothwell |
06-08-2004 |
Policy Issues
