Governor McCrory reverses position on High Point Furniture Market
Governor Pat McCrory has reversed course and now says he no longer supports cutting by half state support for the High Point Furniture Market. David Hurand speaks with High Point Enterprise reporter...
View Article"LOCAL BILLS" ON GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA
It has been a couple of weeks since the North Carolina Senate sent its' version of a new state budget to the house. While many lawmakers have focused much of their attention on the budget and...
View ArticleSettlement Offer or Intimidation Attempt?
Asheville City Council has made it clear it will not drop the city's legal challenge of a state law that transfers control of the Asheville Water System to the Metropolitan Sewerage Distrct and a...
View ArticlePublic Financing of NC Judicial Campaigns Likely Over
The flow of public money for candidates running for the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the State Supreme court is coming to an end. The state budget that the Republican controlled General...
View ArticleBuncombe County Property Tax Rate Going UP
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners is set to approve the county 2013-2014 fiscal year budget. The $337 million spending plan includes a significant increase in the county property tax rate....
View ArticleSome Good News Some Challenges: Kids Count Data Book
The 2013 Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Data Book finds that children in the U.S. continue to make gains in education and health, despite the growing number of children who live in poverty....
View ArticleWNC ADVOCATES FOR GAY RIGHTS HAIL COURT RULING
Western North Carolina advocates for gay rights and the right to marry are hailing today's Supreme Court ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. The Executive Director of the...
View ArticleNC SENATE PASSES SWEEPING ABORTION RESTRICTIONS
In a move supporters claim will reduce the number of abortions in the state and opponents claim will further restrict access to women's health care clinics, the State Senate has passed new...
View ArticleWaynesville Annexation of Lake Junaluska On Hold
Audio FileDavid Hurand speaks with Lake Junaluska Conference Center CEO Jack Ewing a
View ArticleDistrict Elections Maybe in Asheville's Future
A significant change maybe in store for Asheville voters. David Hurand spoke with Mt. Xpress reporter Jake Frankel about a bill being considered by state lawmakers in Raleigh that would impose...
View ArticleMoral Monday Protest Comes to Asheville
The President of North Carolina NAACP Rev. William Barber and the leader of the Moral Monday Protests in Raleigh came to Asheville today and announced the civil rights organization will sue to block...
View ArticleMoral Monday Protest Comes to Asheville
The leader of the Moral Monday Protest movement in Raleigh and the President of the North Carolina NAACP was in Asheville today where he announced the NAACP will file a law suit to block recently...
View ArticleNew Audits of APD Evidence Room Released
The latest audit of the recently restructured Asheville Police Department Evidence Room has been released. Carollina Public Press Editor Jon Elliston says the Department has changed the way it handles...
View ArticleManheimer Big Winner in Asheville Mayoral Primary
Asheville Vice Mayor Esther Manheimer was an easy winner in Tuesday's Mayoral Primary election. Unofficial results show that only 9% of the city's 67,676 registered voters cast ballots. David Hurand...
View ArticleAsheville City Council Candidate Forum Tonight
The League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe County will hold an Asheville City Council candidate forum tonight at 6 at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville's Reuter Center....
View ArticleQuiet at the Climatic Data Center
While Senate Democrats and Republicans have reached an agreement to reopen the federal government, it was another unusually quiet day today at the world's largest active archive of weather data. The...
View ArticleNC Lawmakers Split on Bill to Reopen and Avoid Default
Seven members of the North Carolina U.S. House Delegation voted to fund the federal government and raise the debt ceiling, six voted no, including Republican Mark Meadows of the 11th Congressional...
View ArticleNC Supreme Court Justice Asked to Recuse Himself
Earlier this month, plaintiffs challenging North Carolina's 2011 Congressional redistricting plan filed a motion asking State Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby (new-bee) to recuse himself from the...
View ArticlePoverty Forum Confronts Domestic Violence
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This week the President and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence was in Western North Carolina. Kim Gandy was the keynote speaker at the...
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