Franklin, NC
RALEIGH/STATEWIDE-The Raleigh News and Observer’s recent editorial on the mess that North Carolina has created by outsourcing mental health care services is self-congratulatory but worth a read.
The same paper’s news coverage of the report that revealed the extent of the problem, is, too.
STATEWIDE-The News and Observer produces a pair of pieces for Clyde Edgerton fans: a review of his new book “The Bible Salesman” and a question-and-answer interview.
Review.
Interview.
NATIONAL-In a column originally published in 2006 and subsequent winner of the 2007 Unity Award for Editorial Writing, this piece, written by Jose Barreiro (current director of the Office of Latin America at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington), examines the inflammatory immigration issue from a nativist angle.
Economies are suffering, he writes, [...]
SYLVA-My wife and I share something in common: in our mid-elementary years, we were both painfully shy. For a while, back-to-school time was a source of dread. Now, as our own young daughters head to school for the fall, those recollections mix with the emotions that all parents feel as milestones come and go.
On the [...]
Last week, after a month-long warm-up, Western Carolina University made public its new sports logo with a “big reveal” at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center. The whole event was a bit cringe-worthy, because there’s no real way to bring it off; after all, when you get right down to it, it’s still just a [...]
REGIONAL/CHEROKEE-Philip Burnham of Indian Country Today reviews Vicki Rozema’s book “Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation,” which is now in its second printing.
A quote:
The Cherokees were the ”canary in the coal mine” for 19th century Indian policy. As with all the Civilized Tribes, their removal and resettlement [...]
DOT seeks comment on proposed rest area
BALSAM-The Department of Transportation will hold a citizens’ informational workshop on Tuesday, Aug. 26, for a proposed new rest area on U.S. 23/74 southbound and upgrades to the existing rest area on northbound U.S. 23/74.
The informal meeting will be from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Waynesville Middle School [...]
STATEWIDE-Joseph Mitchell was a Fairmont, NC, boy who went on to be one of the great early staff writers of the New Yorker magazine.
He’s the subject of an interesting piece in the current issue of the Oxford American, in which writer Sam Stephenson visits Fairmont, a small town down east of Raleigh, in search of [...]
REGIONAL-Hendersonville native Jennifer Pharr Davis has performed a feat that the Hendersonville Times-News likens to an Olympic gold-medal performance.
And that’s no exaggeration.
Davis recently traversed the 2,175-mile Appalachian Trail in 57 days, five hours and 35 minutes.
That’s 30 days faster than any other women has ever made the trip, and faster than all but four men.
Davis [...]
RALEIGH/STATEWIDE-Staff writer Frank Murawski writes in today’s Raleigh News and Observer that Duke Energy’s Save-a-Watt plan, which would allow Duke to market energy-saving products and services to its customers, then recoup the expense of doing so by adding a surcharge to every power bill, is unlikely to receive the blessing of the North Carolina Utilities [...]