The back of my 1988 Casio keyboard had an empty socket. Simply marked “sustain,” teenage Josh set out to discover its purpose. I sliced off the end of a pair of headphones, plugged it into the back and taped the…

Buy Photo City Hall(Photo: Citizen-Times photo)Buy Photo ASHEVILLE – And you thought 15 major Republican candidates for president was a lot. Four last-day filings Friday brought the number of candidates for City Council this year to a whopping 16. Filing…

In response to the June 17 Xpress article “Leveling the Playing Field,” if you had been part of the Short Term Rental Advocacy Asheville group, you would know the rhetoric in the newspapers is a campaign. Since December 2013, local short-term rental advocates…

The back of my 1988 Casio keyboard had an empty socket. Simply marked “sustain,” teenage Josh set out to discover its purpose. I sliced off the end of a pair of headphones, plugged it into the back and taped the…

Grant Millin announced in February that he would run for Asheville city council. Today, he followed through and filed the paperwork to make it official. Millin is a veteran of the Navy and currently runs a consulting firm. He has…

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Enlarge John Downey Plans to replace Duke Energy’s coal-burning Asheville Plant with a cleaner natural gas… more Asheville residents welcomed Duke Energy’s plan to replace its coal-burning plant there with a 650-megawatt natural-gas plant. But farther south, residents are already…

CAMPOBELLO, SC (FOX Carolina) – A new power transmission line route is being researched and planned by Duke Energy and some people in the Carolina Foothills are speaking out against the idea of adding a giant power line in their…

A new report from Tveidt, owner of SYNEVA Economics LLC, a consulting firm that focuses on local and regional analysis, showed Asheville and Buncombe County experienced weak growth in middle class jobs over a five-year period ending at the close…

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. INN disclosed the recent acquisition of 2 hotel properties for $59.0 million. The move comes as part of the company’s effort to boost its portfolio and leverage the growing potentials in Boston, MA and Asheville, NC.…