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  • Happy Thanksgiving! (5)

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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:00pm EST
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  • Sustainable Las Vegas

    I was recently on the floor of the Luxor walking in between craps and blackjack tables when I seemed to have gotten the most absurd idea in my head: Sustainable Las Vegas.  I thought about whether there might be an organization advocating for a more sustainable way of doing things in [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:01am EST
    by writ of summons

  • A Doctor in the House?

    Yesterday, I mentioned in a post that I believed Dr. Dan Eichenbaum would win the Republican congressional primary here in the 11th six months from now. Of course, ridiculously early predictions are just that; obviously a lot can happen, and I could be way off the mark. But let me [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:03am EST
    by Michael Muller

  • The Fear of God (and Voters)

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    My ears pricked up this weekend when I heard freshman Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) say he would support a health care reform bill even if he knew he could lose his job. How refreshing, I thought. Jon Walker at FireDogLake provides one reason Bennet was, for a politician, so uncharacteristically [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:09pm EST
    by Tom Sullivan

  • More Thread!

    I’m in the midst of a hectic one-day workweek before heading out of town for holiday hilarity. Do your worst. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Sunday Morning Music – The Grid

    The Philip Glass Ensemble, from Koyaanisqatsi Part One (more below the fold): Part Two: Part Three: [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:09am EST
    by Admin Hooligan

  • Windiana

    Our trip to Chicago this week took us up I-65 through Benton County, Indiana and past the midwest’s newest and largest wind farm, the Fowler Ridge Wind Farm 90 miles north of Indianapolis. A project of BP Wind Energy and Virginia-based Dominion Resources, the site is now producing about 400 [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:05pm EST
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Friday Open Thread: Starting With Shuler

    Quite a lot of you are debating the merits of our Azure Canine Congressman in the wake of revelations about TVA and Genentech and after his vote against health care reform.  I’m of a mind that the district isn’t going to get anyone better anytime soon, but I’m willing to [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:44am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Reason #1,487 We Love Susan Fisher

    AC-T: Rep. Susan Fisher, D-Buncombe, followed other state legislators Wednesday in calling for an investigation into Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina’s campaign against a public health-insurance plan. The insurer has called and sent mailers to voters urging opposition to a public plan that would compete with private insurers. In a [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:25am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Another Two-Thousand Page Page-Turner

    We haven’t even gotten done going over the things wrong with the House health care bill, and now the Senate bill has been released. Another two thousand pages. More will be revealed this morning, no doubt. In the meantime, let’s hope it’s a better read than the House bill: The House [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:30am EST
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Elaine Marshall To Answer Your Questions

    Democratic candidate for the US Senate, Elaine Marshall, will be live-blogging at BlueNC tonight.  Head over now to post your questions.  This is the message I received via Facemail: U.S. Senate candidate Elaine Marshall will be blogging live at BlueNC tonight at 7:00 p.m. Please follow the link below to stop [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:47pm EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Media Arts Project and Asheville Affiliates

    (Important note: In order for the Media Arts Project to get the booty, you must enter The Media Arts Project into the “Nonprofit Affiliation” line in the online order form.) The Media Arts Project is a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting media arts and artists in western North Carolina. I’m on [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:25pm EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Wednesday Reading

    I’m nursing a cold this morning, and I thought I’d share some of the good reads I’ve found while sipping hot beverage and blowing my nose. While the singularly uninspiring Harry Reid announces that the President’s energy bill won’t be taken up in the Senate until spring, others are making it [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:43am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Majority Leader Martin Nesbitt

    AC-T: Senate Democrats today unanimously chose Martin Nesbitt as Senate majority leader, picking an experienced legislator from Asheville to lead them into their most important election in a decade. Majority leader is the No. 2 post in the Senate and in recent years has been one of the most powerful positions in [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:36pm EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Future Building

    “Our goal is for the phrase ‘green building’ to become obsolete, by making all building and retrofits green — and transforming every job in our industry into a green job,” said Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chairman of USGBC. “The authors” of a new study from the US Green Building [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:06am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Information Superhighway Tonight

    This stellar group from Chicago is in town for one night only.  I caught them last time I was there and was blown away by the powerhouse lead singer Leslie Beukelman (who happens to be shacked up with my brother-in-law) and the musicianship of the band.  Come to Bobo Gallery [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:18am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Corporate Ventriloquism

    (Update 1 & 2 below) Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake had a dustup a few weeks ago with Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) over an amendment to H.R. 3200 that Eshoo sponsored governing the licensing of biologic drugs. Hamsher, a three-time breast cancer survivor, contended that a loophole allowed manufacturers to extend their [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:27pm EST
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Sunday Morning Music: Pomplamoose

    My musical obsession for the week.  I’ve gone to their YouTube page and watched everything there.  Here are three selections for you.  Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” is first.  After the jump you’ll find this duo covering The Chordette’s “Mr. Sandman” and Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”.  Enjoy! [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:11am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Arithmophobia

    I’m still waiting to meet someone unemployed who is more worried about federal deficits than his or her own family’s. But to hear the Beltway punditocracy tell it, deficits are all we should care about. Chris Hayes comments on a Politico piece at The Nation: There’s one big maddening conceptual error at [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:59pm EST
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Asheville Needs You

    In addition to the thousand-plus employees and seven City Councilcritters, the future of our city is planned and implemented by a multitude of Boards and Commissions.  Most everything that comes before City Council first makes its way through one or more of these citizen-led bodies.  If you’ve wanted to get [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:55am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Back

    I got to sign some proclamations today.  I don’t often get to proclaim. How y’all been? [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:58pm EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • East of the Balsams

    Last night was a monumental one in Washington, where the health care bill H.R. 3962 passed with one Democratic vote to spare, and help from one Republican. For all the kabuki hand-wringing, the choice to be made was not this health care bill verses a better one waiting to be [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:59pm EST
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Sunday Morning Music

    I was driving through Los Banos, California last weekend.  It was Sunday morning and I was on the California 152.  In the last couple years, this relatively small stretch of road that runs through the town has been almost completely taken over by every conceivable big box retailer and chain [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 6:25am EST
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  • Not Progresive Enough

    From Sam Stein at HuffPost: A Research 2000 Virginia Poll conducted for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee reveals that 64 percent of Virginia voters who supported Barack Obama said that the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Creigh Deeds, was “not progressive enough.” Driving the point home further, 58 percent of Virginia voters who [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:13pm EST
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Well, which is it, Congressman?

    Up or down on health care reform? [U.S. Rep. Phil] Roe [R-TN] also said he does not think another Democrat whose district borders his, Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., of Western North Carolina, will vote for the bill. I’m sure your doubts stem from your desire for a single-payer system. Or maybe you [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:47am EST
    by Doug Gibson

  • Friday Open Thread

    Hiya Hooligans!  What an exciting week it was.  Yet our hearts go out to the families and friends of the victims in Ft. Hood.  In brief, in review: Congratulations Gordon!  You deserved to win for such a well thought and well fought campaign.  Go get ‘em! The broader election results from Tuesday [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:03pm EST
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  • Is Red a Primary Color?

    Ever since August, when we all got an earful of what Heath Shuler thought about health care reform (he was pretty much against any proposed Democratic legislation, and had so few concrete suggestions for what he would support you kind of got the impression that reform wasn’t high on his [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:47am EST
    by Doug Gibson

  • “Our Weapon Is Fear”

    [As we witnessed in the just-completed Asheville City Council election, the far right seems unable to get its head out of its anti-communism. This piece is cross-posted from the Huffington Post.] On Halloween, just ahead of Tuesday’s local elections, we received a second attack flyer in the mail from conservative activists. [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:18pm EST
    by Tom Sullivan

  • The Councilman Elect

    Hiya Hooligans, I slept eleven hours last night.  It’s the first time in years I can remember such a lengthy slumber.  After a ten-month campaign and a humdinger of an election night party, I’m going to recuse myself from blogging for a few days. I’ll be catching up on things at work [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:02pm EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Thank You, Asheville!

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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:10am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Election Day Open Thread

    Late predictions?  News from the polls?  Hopes?  Fears?  Random link to a dancing cat? This thread is open for business. [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:56am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Vote (and one other thing).

    We’ve come full circle. Last winter we were knocking on doors, building a campaign. Spring came, and so did the volunteers. Summer came, and so did the donors. October 6th came, and this grassroots campaign was 145 votes out of first place. Now autumn is breathing her colorful symphony, and [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:01pm EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Lucky or Good?

    The congressman’s staffer said her goodbyes and left the service desk. The cashier, pleasant-looking and about fifty, had listened to the health care conversation from behind the counter. Now that it was just the two of them, she opened up to my wife. It has been a bad three years. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:23am EST
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Nice Going (So Far)

    “In Asheville, a record 3,357 people have already cast ballots during the early voting period.” – Joel Burgess, AC-T. High-fives to everyone who got out and voted already.  This lightens the load on our election day staff and decreases the impact of last-minute smear campaigns. On Tuesday I need all of you [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:42am EST
    by Gordon Smith

  • Sunday Morning Music: I Go To Work

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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 12:34am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Tonight!

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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Predictions

    In about 134 hours we’re going to know who’s been elected to Asheville City Council.  This is your thread to make predictions as to the winners.  So far a little over 2,000 of you have voted. Thanks to everyone who’s participated in my campaign.  Whether you’ve volunteered, donated, or simply voted [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:40am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Other Votes, Other Races

    While voting for City Council is underway from now ’til November 3rd, there’s another race with a voting deadline of tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct. 28th. BlogAsheville’s 4th Blogiversary Awards will be, er, awarded this Friday night.  The party, known affectionately as Extravablogiversapaloozathon 4.0 – Spookyblogapaloozananny, will bring bloggers and social media mavens [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:09am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Early Voting All Over The Place

    Asheville City Council wisely decided to open additional voting locations during the final week of early voting in order to increase access to all of our citizens. Voting is open from 10am-6pm Monday through Friday and 8am – 1pm on Saturday at all of the following locations. You can stop [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:43pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Sunday Afternoon Music – Mention Another Venue, Get Thrown Off Stage

    The next time you think about attending or performing a show at The Garage at Biltmore, consider this… Local indie band Hatori Hanzo were thrown offstage during their show there last night. You’d think that they would have had to do something really outrageous along the lines of, say, G.G. Allin [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 11:59am EDT
    by Admin Hooligan

  • Not Exactly the Mercury Theatre on the Air

    At least the damage was minimal, Frank Rich suggests in this morning’s New York Times. It’s not as if the “balloon boy” fraud led the country into invading a sovereign country in search of nonexistent WMDs, or into investing in dot-coms with no business plans, or into buying oversized homes [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:30am EDT
    by Tom Sullivan

  • We’re Number Last!

    FactCheck.org sent out one of its regular e-mail updates this week. They examine the “37th in the world” statistic bandied about in the health reform debate. The 2000 World Health Organization report has not been updated, they note, and has its critics and limitations. The Annenberg Public Policy Center looks at [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:41pm EDT
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Further, Faster

    A Green Economy is not the wave of the future. It’s happening right now. If we’re not leading then we’re trailing behind. [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 8:54am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Extrava 4.0 is Coming…

    Vote for your fave bloggers and Twitterati at the votin’ place –> Righ’chere! [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 4:25pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Friday Open Thread and 350 Reminder

    You will do with it as you wish, but first a note to duly open this thread… Tomorrow from 2-4pm, come down to City Hall for 350.  350 is a global event to let our decision makers know that we want them to lead the way to reducing CO2 in the [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:49am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Today is a Good Day to Dial

    Bring your cell phone when you’re voting early today for one of Asheville’s best politicians. After 8:30 or so, you might want to call Heath Shuler’s office. If you weren’t one of the 315,000 or so callers who heeded OFA’s advice and rang up their congresspeople on Wednesday (and even if [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:30am EDT
    by Doug Gibson

  • Walking While Talking

    Here’s the newest campaign video – straight outta Wu Media. Please share it with your friends via email, FB, Twitter, etc. Early voting is happening today from 8am-6pm. Let’s do this thing. [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 12:52am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Study Shows Testosterone Levels Drop for Losers on Election Night

    I don’t know what this means for Asheville’s municipal elections on November 3, but be forewarned: Republican men nationwide may have experienced a drop in testosterone levels the night Barack Obama was elected president, according to the results of a small study that found another link between testosterone and men’s moods [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 12:13am EDT
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Republicans Lining Up To Have A Go At Shuler

    While I find this HT-N editorial impossibly optimistic about Republicans’ chances in the Congressional elections next year, it’s interesting enough to give a read: A few weeks ago, Henderson County Republican Party Chairman Robert Danos trumpeted efforts by local Republicans to clear the primary field for Greg Newman, the Hendersonville mayor [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 8:59am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Wealthy developers smear progressive council candidate. Dog bites man.

    Ever wonder how to run a city council smear campaign? No? Ok, I’ll tell you anyway. 1) Get a few people together and get them to pledge to give you money if and when you form a political action committee. 2) Wait until the last minute to form that committee. (The state [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 4:58pm EDT
    by Doug Gibson

  • Don’t You Love Voting?

    Over two hundred people love voting so much that they got out and voted in the first two days of early voting last week.  It’s pretty fantastic.  If you’re driving, you can pull up to one of the free, reserved parking spaces right in front of the Board of Elections [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 10:51pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Sunday Afternoon Music

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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Saturday Morning Reading (with bonus exhortation)

    Is everyone here familiar with the significance of the number 350?  It’s the most important number for the world.  “350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide–measured in “Parts Per Million” in our atmosphere. 350 ppm–it’s the number humanity needs to get [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 8:07am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Protecting our Streams and Rivers

    Hartwell Carson, Riverkeeper over at RiverLink, wrote an excellent op-ed for the AC-T the other day.  Asheville’s Planning and Zoning Board will consider changes to the stream buffer rules.  The current rules call for a 30 foot buffer, and only two requests for variances have been made in the two [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 12:26pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Extrava 4.0

    Lifted wholesale from Ashvegas: Just a quick reminder that Spookyblogapalooza, Asheville’s annual blogga and Twitta party, is happening next weekend. We’re inviting everyone to come out and have a good time, and help us raise money for AHOPE. Since the party is the day before Halloween, we’re encouraging everyone to come [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:54am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Gordon Smith For City Council

    This video was produced by Peter Brezny. Have a look, and share it with your friends, families, and colleagues. Voting begins today, and we have a unique opportunity to implement an optimistic vision for Asheville’s future. [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 1:56pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Another Voting Sunrise Breaks the Horizon

    Time to vote! Voters will begin today to make their final choices for Asheville City Council. There’s new drama to the race with the addition of Ryan Croft to the ballot. Mr. Croft, head of Asheville’s 9/12 organization, will join Dr. Mumpower and J. Neal Jackson to form a bona fide [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:49am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Those Wacky Europeans

    I have a health care thread going on HuffPo, entitled What Civilized Country Operates Like This? that you can read here. TheBlackCat left the following story in the comments: When my husband and I first arrived in the Netherlands, we were shocked because in Amsterdam there was a drive to raise [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 9:18pm EDT
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Ten Dollar Tuesday – This Means You

    Happy Tuesday, Hooligans! There are a few things I know to be true. Over 210 people have come out to volunteer for this campaign.  That is, they’ve shown up to canvass, phone bank, work events, or kick it as an election day poll ambassador.  Dozens of them are regulars.  Hats off to [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 9:16am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Parkside: Almost Time To Retire This Category

    For over a year and a half we have watched the terrible tale of Parkside.  Today it appears the condominium side of the story has come to an end.  If the court rules in favor of the Pack family, then the land will revert to the public, and this story [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 6:08pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Shuler Draws a 2010 Challenger

    WLOS: News13 has learned that Hendersonville Mayor Greg Newman will enter the race for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional district. Mayor Newman, a republican, was elected in 2005, and his term ends in December. He previously announced he would not seek a second term. [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 11:50am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • This Week: Forums A’Plenty

    Last week brought heapin’ helpin’s of political drama in the Asheville City Council election. Cecil Bothwell mobilized his voters and came in first place in the primary. My own grassroots campaign surprised many in the political establishment by coming in a solid second, only 145 votes behind Cecil. Esther Manheimer [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 8:57pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Sunday Morning Music (Coming Down)

    Johnny Cash covering one of Kris Kristofferson’s finest. [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 10:40am EDT
    by Admin Hooligan

  • It’s The Least We Could Do

    This morning’s New York Times editorial critiques the Senate Finance Committee’s health reform bill (the Baucus bill) to be voted on this week. The Times finds little to recommend, including its lack of a public plan. The Baucus bill was the focus of conservative rage – and the whole of [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 1:43am EDT
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Bike Story

    This video documents how Boulder, Colorado planned for multimodal transportation and implemented a high-functioning bike system. Let’s learn these lessons and make it happen here in Asheville. [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 6:30am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Kelly Miller Bows Out of City Council Race

    UPDATE – Ashvegas uploaded this video to YouTube. Mr. Miller announces his withdrawal. From Mr. Miller’s website: “At noon today, I announced my withdrawal as a candidate in the race for Asheville’s City Council. I will, however, continue to serve on City Council through the completion of my current term, which ends [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Friday Open Thread: Big Voices

    Good morning, Hooligans.   I hope to see some of y’all out and about this weekend.  I’ll be at Blue Ridge Pride from 5-7pm tomorrow, and speaking from the main stage at 6.  The festival takes place from Noon ’til 9 at MLK, Jr. Park on the east side of downtown.  [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:18am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • EPA to Cap DDT Hot Spot in Palos Verdes Superfund Site

    The EPA plans to spend $50 million on a project that will “cap” or cover a hot spot within a DDT laden ocean deposit off the Palos Verdes Peninsula near Los Angeles.  The Palos Verdes Shelf was made an official EPA Superfund site in 1996.  The accumulation of DDT on [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 7:59am EDT
    by writ of summons

  • Local Dems Back Public Option

    Saw this at the Progressive Pulse: the Progressive States Network — a fabulous organization that works to educate legislators and the public about progressive policy at the state level — has asked state legislators across the country to sign a letter supporting health care reform including a nationally-available public health [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 8:46pm EDT
    by Doug Gibson

  • Well That Was Something, Wasn’t It?

    Thanks to everyone who volunteered, donated, spread the word, and voted. Tonight’s result was a happy alchemy, a forward-looking vision of affordability and sustainability married with an inspired field organization. Thank you.  Click here to get involved in this campaign. Anyway, here’s the buzz on the internets… The candidates moving on to [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 1:10am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Chamber Update: Apple Quits

    A recent post noted some high profile defections from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its staunch opposition to regulating Carbon emissions.  Yesterday, Apple announced it would resign from the Chamber effective immediately.  This is the first major consumer brand to quit and the first Silicon Valley company to quit. [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 8:05am EDT
    by writ of summons

  • Voting Day Reading

    Today you can go vote in the Asheville City Council primary between 6:30am ad 7:30pm.  I wrote this in a newsletter that went out yesterday: Asheville is at a unique moment in her history.  We have the choice of moving boldly into the future or waiting complacently for events to overtake [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 12:34am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Extrava 3.0

    Asheville Bloggers Throw Bash for Online Community, Proceeds to AHOPE, Charity Helping Homeless Asheville, NC (Oct. 5, 2009) Asheville’s online community gathers for a beer-fueled October 30 blowout as bloggers and Tweeters step away from their computers for a good cause: AHOPE, a charity serving Asheville’s homeless. Now in its fourth year, the [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 2:46pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Election Night Party!

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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 4:32am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Sunday Morning Music

    A still more glorious dawn awaits.  Not a sunrise but a galaxy rise.  A morning filled with four hundred billion suns or the rising of the Milky Way.” Maybe it being set to music helps emphasize its poetic nature.  So much of that 1980 series Cosmos was poetic.  A combination of [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 6:01am EDT
    by writ of summons

  • If Only Liberals Loved America Like They Do

    From various sites, celebrations broke out on the right after hearing that Chicago had lost its bid for the 2016 summer Olympics. From Think Progress: Soon after news broke that the International Olympic Committee had rejected Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics, which President Obama had personally lobbied for, Weekly [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 4:36pm EDT
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Friday Open Thread

    If not you, then who? If not now, then when? [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 10:13am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Candidate Forum Thursday Night

    If you’ve wanted to see all the candidates in one place (Shad?), come out to the fancy new LEED certified Hilton Hotel in south Asheville tonight. Charlie Hume says: South Asheville Rotary Club Candidate Forum will be held on Oct 1 at the Hilton Hotel located at 43 Town Square Blvd [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 10:29pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Mumpower Compares Asheville Schoolteachers to Nazis

    A local school put on a 26 minute show months ago in which they celebrate the accomplishments of America’s finest.  A clip was posted to YouTube resulting in hysterical responses from anti-Obama radicals.  City Councilman Carl Mumpower jumped into the fray, comparing schoolteachers to Nazis. ————————————————————————— FoxCarolina reports “Jan Blunt with the [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 10:18pm EDT
    by Uptown Ruler

  • What is Wrong with This Picture?

    Newsmax columnist John L. Perry is calling for a military coup in America in his new column titled: Obama Risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention’ “…Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 9:21pm EDT
    by Uptown Ruler

  • Warm Oceans – Data Visualization

    Click here to watch NOAA’s data visualization of our warming oceans - The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest for any August on record, and the warmest on record averaged for any June-August summer season, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. World-wide records began in 1880. [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 11:29pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Largest Energy Provider Quits US Chamber of Commerce

    Think Progress: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the largest lobbying force in the nation, promoting a right-wing agenda as the “voice of business.” The Chamber claims that a cap-and-trade program to limit global warming pollution would “strangle the economy” and has even called for a “Scopes monkey trial” on the [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Get Into It

    With eight days left before Primary election day for Asheville City Council, I’m asking everyone who supports this campaign to give a couple of hours to help Get Out The Vote. Click here to volunteer. We had three good volunteer events last week, contacting about a thousand voters. In the next [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:56am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Hope For a Global Climate Deal

    Asheville’s own Drew Jones “works with Asheville’s Sustainability Institute, a U.S. not-for-profit organization founded by Donella Meadows. Trained in System Dynamics modeling at Dartmouth College and MIT, Drew worked on the 1993 “Greening of the White House” as part of Rocky Mountain Institute and in 2008, as part of the CDC [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:38am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Thank you, Bill

    Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy ———————————– For those of you disheartened by the ugly, racist, irrational tone of the present debate on Health Care, and the continued right-wing hissy fit over the election of Barack Obama, this is worth watching [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 11:57am EDT
    by Uptown Ruler

  • Sunday Morning Music and Reading

    Woke up with this song in my head: My alma mater Warren Wilson College gets showcased in the New York Times for its sustainability acheivements. The Copenhagen Climate Summit is coming.  While there will continue to be some flat-earthers who deny mankind’s role in climate change, it’s good to see the adults [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 10:01am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Better Dead Than Insured

    The New York Times/CBS News poll out yesterday posed the following question: 57. Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans? Sixty-five percent said [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 11:09pm EDT
    by Tom Sullivan

  • If You’re Not Treating Sick People, You’re Overhead

    A friend tells this story from his company: It was a team meeting like so many others in corporate America. Management was imposing yet another scheme for tracking progress towards reaching profit and sales targets. Another layer of bureaucratic paperwork. More time diverted from the core mission. One frustrated salesman was [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
    by Tom Sullivan

  • Friday Open Thread: When Blogs Go Bad

    Happy Friday, Hooligans.  While I’ve been thrilled by the challenges of campaigning for City Council, I’ve been disappointed to see my blogging time decapitated.  With all the things I’ve learned over the last seven months, I could fill a book if only I could find the time to write.  After [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 10:11am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Happening: A Dance Party Explosion

    Along with The Media Arts Project (MAP), the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center are throwing HAPPENING, a dance party in the heart of the River Arts District of Asheville. HAPPENING will benefit for the Museum’s “Living Legacy: Living Artists of Black Mountain College” exhibition series, and is the [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 10:01am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • 374 Of You Deserve a High Five

    As of the end of the day on Wednesday, only 374 people had cast a ballot in the city council election. There’s still plenty of time to vote early, so get it together and get to the Board of Elections to exercise your franchise. You can vote at 189 College St. [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 9:30am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Get Your Yard Sign!

    If you have a good yard for a Gordon Smith for City Council yard sign, then let me know! We’re looking for folks in higher traffic areas to adopt a sign from now through Nov. 3rd. Click here to let me know you want one. [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 3:22pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Chaining Dogs Now Against the Law

    Kudos to the group Chain Free Asheville as well as to City Council and staff for crafting a no-chaining ordinance that will increase public safety and decrease animal cruelty: The rule does not affect dogs being walked on leashes and is aimed particularly at dogs who spend most of their lives [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 3:19pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Parkside: Awesome Tavern Means No High Rise

    It appears that, no matter what the judge rules in Mr. Coleman’s appeal of the Parkside ruling, any future condo will have to go through the entire process again.  It appears this story is coming to a close. Assistant Planning Director Shannon Tuch said Tuesday that the city’s approval of the [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 3:17pm EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • High Five!

    Despite our Irish climes, it’s vitally important that you get out to vote.  Anyone who’ll brave the drizzle and the puddles to come down to the Board of Elections deserves a citizenship medal and a rock solid high five. I don’t have any medals lying around, but I’ve got a massive [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 12:38am EDT
    by Gordon Smith

  • Rainy Day Thoughts on Impermeable Surfaces

    I’ve posted this before, but while we’re in the midst of our soggy equinox, it’s germane to post it again.  Created by the excellent Elumenati, here’s “Water In WNC – The Impact of Impervious Surfaces on the Mountain Watershed”. [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 12:22am EDT
    by Gordon Smith
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