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Crowd uproar: AVL City Council embraces ICE contractor
13 May 2026 @ 1221 Last night Asheville city council voted 6-1 — literally over the voices of assembled citizens — to accept a $1.14M grant from the US Department of Justice to build a Real-Time Intelligence Center (RTIC), a mass surveillance hub to be used by the Asheville Police Department, that will have as-yet-unknown…
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Edwards Ave
Around daylight last Friday, Swannanoa began flooding. In the Beacon community of former mill houses, Edwards Avenue was the hardest hit. Of the few dozen houses there, we had old friends in three of them.
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Photos: Trump Rally in Asheville, NC
13 Aug 2024. Asheville, NC. Photos from this afternoon’s rally. Big takeaways: As far as I know there was no violence, and it seems like Asheville’s lefty protesting crowd did not take Trump’s bait. This scene was far more orderly and civil than the Trump rally I covered at the Civic Center in 2016, in…
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Photos: Yancey library supporters rally against anti-LGBTQ takeover by county commission
Burnsville, NC. TL;DR: The Yancey County Public Library is the target of an anti-LGBTQ takeover by the county commission. — The library’s 2023 Pride display drew complaints from the community. — Yancey county commissioners appointed themselves and a resident who made the complaints to the local library advisory board — The commission has voted to…
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Photos: Mission Nurses Rally
Nurses rally during negotiations between their union and HCA, which owns Asheville’s Mission Hospital system.
