By Jeff Block The scariest part of the recent Amendment One debacle is that most of the supporters of this legalized discrimination seem so normal when you pass them in the street or the aisles of the grocery store. They don’t present as the bullies they are. Bullies? Well, obviously! Finding a weaker person or [more]

You are invited to a “Take Back the Tea” party and rally for Watauga County’s Democratic Party candidates who will be on the November ballot: NC House candidate Cullie Tarleton; NC Senate candidate Roy Carter; County Commission candidates John Welch, Virginia Roseman, and Billy Kennedy; and School Board candidates Brenda Reese, Barbara Kinsey, and Jay [more]

Climate Impacts Day … Connect the Dots, which is allied with 350.org, will be observed in Boone on Saturday, May 5th, starting at noon with a free cookout at Boone Park on Horn in the West Drive. Connect the Dots’ only purpose is to educate the public about the slow-motion catastrophe of climate change. The [more]