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• 'Firm correctness': an I Ching app predicts the Asheville City Council elections

  

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  David Forbes | 8 days ago

  Amid the lawsuits and budget wrangling, Asheville City Council elections are approaching. There's something clearly missing in the media speculation about who will run and win: electronic versions of ancient Chinese prophecy. Here's what my I-Ching phone app says about each campaign, along with some agricultural and marital advice.

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• After President Obama's gone: what the national media missed about Asheville

  

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  David Forbes | 02/16/2013

  After President Barack Obama's visit earlier this week, an inevitable outpouring of attention from the national media followed. Here's the facts — harsher and more fascinating — that they missed. Photo by Max Cooper.

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• Let's speculate about the 2013 city elections

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  David Forbes | 12/15/2012

  While national media are already going about the ritual of speculating about the 2016 Presidential elections, it's not too early for Ashevilleans to start discussing who might run in the 2013 city elections — with the mayorship and three Asheville City Council seats up — and what they'll fight about.

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• OPINION: Fighting over Asheville's nightlife — what's behind disputes over noise

  

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  David Forbes | 11/23/2012

  Asheville City Council's recent passage of stricter noise rules isn't the first fight over the city's growing nightlife, and it won't be the last.

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• A healthy body is a sexy body: SE Women's Herbal Conference

  

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  Emily Gresham Terry | 10/19/2012

  It is with pride that I admit I have never felt sexier than when surrounded by 1,000 women, chanting and releasing, getting my hands dirty in the earth, and putting steaming-hot food made with love and herbs into my body.

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• Medicine is growing all around us

  

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  Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt | 10/18/2012

  The seventh annual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference, held Oct. 12-14 at Lake Eden, promoted a simple but powerful idea — that there is a healer in us all. Here are a few recipes and herbal aids straight from the wise woman’s medicine cabinet. Enjoy!

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• Deep red meets deep blue at Romney rally

  

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  David Forbes | 10/14/2012

  Like much of the U.S., the Asheville area shows sharp political divides, with deep blue and deep red in the same county. The meeting of a crowd of Mitt Romney supporters with a smattering of protesters during the Thursday, Oct. 11, rally was one of those moments when the two sides bumped shoulders. (Photos by Max Cooper)

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• Discussion thread: working in Asheville

  

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  David Forbes | 08/02/2012

  Coming off this week's cover story on the union organizing drive at the Sitel call center, this is a discussion thread for any topic related to jobs, wages, and working conditions in Asheville.

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• The obligatory Bele Chere street preacher post

  

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  David Forbes | 07/29/2012

  Asheville's annual ritual showdown with fire-and-brimstone street preachers has played out much the same as usual, with some mutations: street preachers have discovered the Bele Chere hashtag on Twitter, and the city's attempts to restrict amplification failed to bear fruit. (photo by Bill Rhodes)

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• Three election night surprises

  

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  David Forbes | 05/10/2012

  Some analysis of the biggest surprises from Tuesday's primary elections and what they mean for Asheville.

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